Off the 'Cuff

This summer, our student interns are updating our blog with their experiences working at the Police Museum. Julie-Ann is one of our fantastic curatorial students who is going to return to her studies at the University of Alberta this fall and start her own blog because she’ll miss writing ours… This piece is written by [...]

Hard to believe it’s only a few days until the 2010 Olympic Winter Games descend on Vancouver; more than 350,000 visitors are expected to visit Vancouver and Whistler over the two-and-a-half weeks of the games. You can’t imagine how much we want to see some of those folks come through our doors… The only problem? [...]

This morning, the RCMP announced that an additional body part has washed ashore on the edge of the Straight of Georgia; this time, though, it’s a hand. (News story is available here.) An interactive map of the locations of all the finds is available here: http://www.vancouversun.com/maps/sixfeet.html It makes much more sense for feet to wash [...]

Paul Grant, who does the Arts Report for CBC Radio One’s “On the Coast” interviewed us today for a segment that will air on Wednesday (July 2nd, 2008). Basically, it was aa quick “highlights” tour of the museum that’ll be edited to about 6 minutes of airtime when all is said and done. I guess [...]

In the last 10 months, five human feet clad in tennis shoes have been found on beaches and islands around the Straight of Georgia. (Map available here.) This story has gained international attention, with an Associated Press news item being published across the US, as well as in the UK, Russia, China and India. Theories [...]