Off the 'Cuff

It was the most hideous thing I had ever seen in my young life. Its name, printed in black ink on a little white card affixed to the gallery wall was ‘Confedspread’.  And to my eight-year old mind it was downright hideous. My grandmother, an avid fan of all art but more specifically the often [...]

My relationship with museums, from an educational perspective, has been what I would call a “passionate love affair.”  The reasons I have been working for the Vancouver Police Museum the past three years are significant in my pursuing a career in education. Museums are incredible places where the worlds of both history and education collide [...]

This Saturday (Aug 21, 2010), downtown Vancouver will see its streets transformed into a playground for a seething mass of bloody, feral, undead monsters as Vancouver’s annual “Zombie Walk” takes place once again. We here at the museum love a good scare (and are as partial to brains as the next guy) so we have [...]

Looking for something to do with your friends before the end of the summer? There’s no better place to cool down than in an old morgue. In just a last few weeks, the place has been burning up with a Yelp Party, a massive Groupon offer and busy programs for both kids and adults. And [...]

1300 visitors in six days! It blows our mind, thinking about it; we managed to have almost an entire month of people come through the museum in just a week. Spring Break was busy for us, in fact it was easily the busiest the museum has ever been; we ran forensics-themed workshops and our drop-in [...]