One of the many things London does very well is museums. The city boasts such a bounty of world-renowned institutions that it can be hard to know which to visit first: from cutting edge art exhibitions at the Tate Modern to Hope, the huge skeleton of a blue whale at …
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People walk up stairs to the entrance of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria.CHAD HIPOLITO/The Canadian Press Victoria’s Royal B.C. Museum announced abruptly earlier this month that it would close its third-floor core galleries on Jan. 2 as part of the “process of decolonization.” The widespread public outcry – specifically …
Read More »Royal B.C. Museum responds to accusations of racism
Lucy Bell, former head of the First Nations Department and Repatriation Program at the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives, seen here in Victoria on June 5, 2019. DARRYL DYCK/The Globe and Mail The Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives has hired a third-party investigator and brought in a diversity …
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