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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a name="OLE_LINK1"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">May 20, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></strong></a></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Royal BC Museum
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">publishes richly detailed new coffee-table book
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">– Today, the Royal BC Museum released a spectacular new coffee-table style book called
<i>Treasures of the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives</i>.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The hardcover book is anchored by five major essays and lavishly illustrated with colour photography and
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">“Our new
<i>Treasures</i> book puts forward a fascinating array of narratives about the stories behind the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives,” said Royal BC Museum CEO Jack Lohman, who compiled the book. ”Drawing on the collections and the inspiration of the
past, we get to know what lies at the heart of the Museum today.” <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The essays are written by Lohman, senior curators Martha Black, Richard Hebda and Grant Keddie, and BC’s
Provincial Archivist (Emeritus) Gary Mitchell, for many years a Royal BC Museum Vice President. The foreword is by the Honourable Steven Point, former Board member of the Royal BC Museum. The intention of the book is to provide readers with a sense of the
reigning philosophy of the Royal BC Museum by those who know it best.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The book is studded with stunning photographic portraits of some of the museum and archives’ treasures –
both those the institution has acquired for its collections, and those recruited as world-leading experts in their field. Images range from a stunning cover image of a Bill Reid gold box to a peek into the vast entomology collection, from a portrait of Archaeology
Curator Keddie testing tools to the fragile but enduring beauty of a Chinese Freemason’s lantern, diligently conserved in 2013.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The rich illustrations and thoughtful meditations of the curatorial staff make the book worthy of consideration
as a gift for anyone with a deep interest in BC’s natural or human history. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Treasures of the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
retails for $39.95, and is available in book stores everywhere in BC. It is also available through the Royal BC Museum’s online store, at
</span></strong><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/shop/"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/shop</span></b></a><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">A companion 16-month-long calendar featuring many of the same images as the book will be available in June
2015. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<a name="OLE_LINK5"></a><a name="OLE_LINK12"><b>About the Royal BC Museum</b></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xbodytext" style="margin-top:.1pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding of
BC, and provides a dynamic forum for discussion and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Looking to the future, by 2017 the Royal BC Museum will
be a refreshed, modern museum, extending its reach far beyond Victoria as a world-class cultural venue and repository of digital treasures.
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