[BCMA] New Executive Director at Chilliwack Museum

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

Chilliwack Museum has a new Executive Director!

In early January Shawna Maurice, her husband Eric and their two children
left
Lloydminster Saskatchewan in bitterly cold -42 degree weather, arriving a
couple of
days later to the usually balmy (it’s all relative) Fraser Valley. Shawna
 was
interviewed in October and was offered the position of Executive Director
of the
Chilliwack Museum and Archives.

Shawna, who grew up in Grand Falls Newfoundland, travelled a long road to
get
here. Since 2010 she worked at the Lloydminster Cultural and Science Centre
where
she rose to become Manager of the facility. She holds a BA in Anthropology
and
History as well as a graduate diploma in Heritage Management, degrees from
the
University of Alberta and Athabasca University respectively.

For Shawna, history is about change and tying the past into the present and
future.
Making museums relevant for today’s audiences is a focus for her approach to
museum work. And it’s an approach that the Board of Director endorses. The
next
generation is here. Shawna and the rest of the staff at the Chilliwack
Museum and
Archives are prepared to lead this generation to a bigger and better future.


Thanks,

Ron Denman (retired interim Executive Director)

ron at chilliwackmuseum.ca
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