[Bcma-l] (Fwd) Royal BC Museum celebrates BC Day with admission-by-donation

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Subject:        	Royal BC Museum celebrates BC Day with admission-by-donation 
Date sent:      	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:56:38 -0700
From:           	"News, RBCM RBCM:EX" <RoyalBCMuseumNews@RoyalBCMuseum.bc.ca>
         	
For Immediate Release
July 28, 2008

Royal BC Museum celebrates BC Day with admission-by-donation 

VICTORIA - To celebrate British Columbia in its 150th anniversary
year, the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) is waiving its regular admission 
fees on BC Day. Instead, visitors are asked to pay-what-they-can on 
Monday, Aug. 4.

"What better way to spend BC Day than to visit the provincial museum
for an exhibition that celebrates the provincial sesquicentennial,"
says RBCM CEO Pauline Rafferty. "The exhibition, Free Spirit: Stories
of You, Me and BC, honours the innovators, adventurers, creative
thinkers and trend setters who have helped shape the province during
the past 150 years. We hope admission-by-donation will encourage
British Columbians and visitors to celebrate with us on BC Day." 

After spending the holiday Monday touring Free Spirit at the RBCM,
museum-goers can relax at home and watch a documentary on the 
making of the exhibition. Produced and presented by CHEK-News, the 
half-hour program airs Monday, Aug. 4, at 6 and 11 p.m. on Channel 6. 

For those who would rather go out to see a film that night, Movie 
Monday at the Eric Martin Pavilion is showing two chapters from 
Evergreen Playland, a compilation of BC travelogues from the 1940s-
'60s featured in the Free Spirit exhibition. Dennis Duffy of the BC 
Archives, who assembled the film collection, will be on hand to discuss 
his work at the showing, which begins at 6:30 p.m. (The Evergreen 
Playland DVD is available for purchase at the RBCM gift shop.) 

The Royal BC Museum, a provincial crown corporation, collects, 
preserves and interprets artifacts, specimens and documents that tell 
the story of British Columbia. As the provincial museum and archives, 
the RBCM proudly shares that story with the world through its 
research, exhibitions, collections and public programs. 

For more information on the Royal BC Museum, visit 
www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca or call 1-888-447-7977.


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Contact:	
Diane Dakers, Communications Manager
Royal BC Museum Corporation
(250) 387-2101
ddakers@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca



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