More Room Slated for BC's Treasures

Tucked away on the far side of Vancouver you can see some of the provinces' most beautiful artifacts, and soon you will be able to see even more of them! The Museum of Anthropology at UBC is getting a 45,000 square foot expansion. The museum already has a huge amount of its collection on display, something that is very unusual for Museums, and with this new wing they hope to be able to show a lot of their textiles that are in protective storage now.

This is wonderful news for Vancouver. The Museum of Anthropology is an amazing space filled with many different kinds of Native Indian art, as well as some other anthropological finds. It is Canada's largest teaching museum, and while it is a bonus for UBC to have it right there, I wish more people would go to it. The great hall, huge and filled with totem poles while looking out onto fresh evergreens, is amazing all on its own.

THe $58 million expansion project is slated to re-vamp the research wing of the museum, bringing many of its artifacts out of protective storage for public viewing and also to develop a network that will help to join community, academia and collections data. Visitor services and temporary exhibition galleries will also be addressed. Should be good! I am looking forward to it.

Image courtesy of the MOA