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<p><span style="font-size:23.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E9B00">MEDIA ADVISORY</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><strong>J<span style="color:black">une 5</span>, 2015</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Royal BC Museum receives TripAdvisor
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Certificate of Excellence for 2015<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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</strong><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The Royal BC Museum thanks its visitors and TripAdvisor.ca users for rewarding Victoria’s Number One attraction with the Certificate of Excellence
for 2015 and a spot in the Hall of Fame.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">TripAdvisor’s Certificate of Excellence award celebrates excellence in hospitality and is given only to establishments
that consistently achieve great traveller reviews on TripAdvisor. The ‘Hall of Fame’ was created to honour those businesses that have earned a Certificate of Excellence for five consecutive years.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Out of 156 “things to do” in Victoria, the Royal BC Museum is ranked Number One on TripAdvisor.ca
and in 2014 was ranked Number One in a list of the Top 10 Museums in Canada. The Royal BC Museum’s on-site partner IMAX Victoria has also been awarded a Certificate of Excellence for 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">These honours are especially welcomed as they come from the most important source: our
visitors. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Every year the Royal BC Museum welcomes almost a million visitors to its Victoria, BC
site</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"> (and another two million
online). <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">About the Royal BC Museum</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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. <o:p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Media contact:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Royal BC Museum Media Inquiries
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">250-387-3207<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:news@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca">news@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca</a></span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><a href="https://twitter.com/RoyalBCMuseum">@RoyalBCMuseum</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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