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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">August 23, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">September events at the Royal BC Museum
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">range from mammoths to mobile exhibitions
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC
</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">–<a name="OLE_LINK5"> Mammoth madness continues to grip the Royal BC Museum with Ice Age-themed events this September.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The Royal BC Museum is</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:black">calling on BC kids ages 5–15 to draw, paint or sketch their favourite Ice Age creature. Kids can submit their creative masterpieces for a chance
to win a trip to Victoria to help celebrate the museum’s 130th anniversary on October 25, 2016. Email, mail or drop off submissions in person before the contest closes on September 20, 2016. Contest details can be found at
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/contest"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/contest</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The museum’s popular annual sleepover is back! On Saturday, September 24, 2016, starting at 6:30 p.m., visitors can
spend the </span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/25037/night-museum-mammoths"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Night at the Museum</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
and travel back in time to the Ice Age. Explore the popular exhibition </span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/exhibitions/mammoths-giants-ice-age"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Mammoths! Giants of
the Ice Age</span></i></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> without the crowds, go on a midnight behind-the-scenes tour and wake up with morning yoga.
</span><a href="https://sales.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Selection.aspx?item=381&sch=543696"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Tickets</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
are $80 (10 per cent discount for members). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Modern History galleries will be more animated than usual on Saturday, September 3, 2016. Visitors
will be serenaded by the melodies of Scott Joplin and contemporary artists with a
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/42585/player-piano-old-town"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">live musical performance</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">on a 1916 player piano. The demonstration takes place by the Train Station in Old Town from 2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Meet “Alma Rattenbury” as she tells her side of the story in
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/42586/rattenbury-tale-murder-adultery-and-scandal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Rattenbury: A Tale of Murder, Adultery and Scandal</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
in Old Town in front of the Saloon from 2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">On Wednesday September 7, 2016 visitors are invited to hear about the adventures of the Royal BC Museum’s travelling exhibition
<i>Species at Risk</i>. The pop up display toured around BC, including the Kootenays, over the summer. This free program,
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/48787/live-lunch-species-risk-travelogue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Live at Lunch: Species at Risk Travelogue</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">,
runs from noon – 1 p.m. in the Community Room, adjacent to the Sequoia Café in Clifford Carl Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Our Living Languages</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> exhibition
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/23730/our-living-languages-tour"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">tours</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">,
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/23732/cedar-weaving-activity"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Cedar Weaving</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
and </span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/23731/q%E2%80%99ulhanumutsun-and-tzinquaw-activity"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">bent (paper) box making</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
activities run until September 5, 2016. Take part before these summer activities end!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">For more information on these and other events, or to purchase tickets, visit
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/calendar"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/calendar</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">About the Royal BC Museum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" 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, 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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Royal BC Museum Media Inquiries
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">250-387-3207
</span><a href="mailto:news@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">news@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
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