[BCMA] Revelstoke Museum & Archives Media Release

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

MEDIA RELEASE
4th  September 2012

 


Virtual Exhibit Announced for Snow Research & Avalanche Safety in Canada

 

The Revelstoke Museum & Archives is excited to announce the launch of a
two-year project to gather artifacts and information on the history of
Canadian snow research and avalanche safety.

 

 "Our immediate goal will be to present this history in a dynamic website we
are calling Land of Thundering Snow, explains Museum Curator Cathy English.
"In the longer term, we want to ensure that Canada's professional avalanche
heritage is preserved and presented to Canadians and the world." 

 

"A virtual exhibit is an exhibit that people can access via the Internet",
English explains. "Like all museum exhibits it is based on real objects-such
as photographs, diaries, newspaper clippings, sound recordings, objects-that
have stories to tell."

 

Land of Thundering Snow will be a unique, comprehensive resource giving the
user unprecedented 'behind the scenes' access to material not generally
accessible to the public. It will feature the latest information on
avalanche science and safety; avalanche control; the anatomy of an
avalanche; staying safe in avalanche country; and the ecology of avalanches.


 

The historical component of the exhibit will be vast in terms of time and
space. For example, very few people realize that serious avalanche studies
started in Canada as early as 1885 with the construction the Canadian
Pacific Railway through Rogers Pass, or that there are records of a snow
avalanche destroying a First Nations village near Nain, Newfoundland in
1782.

 

The exhibit will also include a dedicated education section for teachers and
students.

 

Major partners in the Land of Thundering Snow project include the Canadian
Avalanche Centre, the Revelstoke Railway Museum, Okanagan College, and Parks
Canada.

 

The Museum is asking anyone with stories, photographs, journals or important
objects such as avalanche research or safety equipment, to contact the
curator (curator at revelstokemuseum.ca).  

 

Land of Thundering Snow virtual exhibit will be launched on the Canadian
Heritage Information Network's Virtual Museum's website in July 2014. 

 

For more information please contact Cathy English, Curator

Revelstoke Museum & Archives, Box 1908, 315 First St. West, Revelstoke, BC,
V0E-2S0

ph: (250) 837-3067 email: office at revelstokemuseum.ca

 

 

Revelstoke Museum & Archives

315 First Street West

PO Box 1908, Revelstoke, BC V0E 2S0

Ph: 250-837-3067

Fax: 250-837-3094

Email: curator at revelstokemuseum.ca

Website: www.revelstokemuseum.ca

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.vvv.com/pipermail/bcma/attachments/20120907/fb42f5e7/attachment.htm 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 2087 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.vvv.com/pipermail/bcma/attachments/20120907/fb42f5e7/attachment.jpeg