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From the Curator’s Office: Museology according to Natalie

August 28th, 2011 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Use It or Lose It!

August 11th, 2011 2 Comments

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 [...]

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An Open Invitation to the Undead…

August 18th, 2010 3 Comments

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 [...]

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Spend a summer evening with us!

August 5th, 2010 No Comments

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 [...]

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Following Up Our Spring Break Miracle

June 24th, 2009 3 Comments

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 [...]

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