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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"">October 20, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Creepy Crawlers and Hollywood Horror take over the
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Royal BC Museum this October
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC –<a name="OLE_LINK5">
</a></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Celebrate Halloween at a museum filled with spiders, bats and other creepy creatures.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">October kicks off with
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/25037/night-museum-mammoths"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Night at the Museum</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">,
a family sleepover starting at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 1, 2016. Explore the popular exhibition
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/exhibitions/mammoths-giants-ice-age"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Mammoths! Giants of the Ice Age</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Tickets</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
are $80 (10 per cent discount for members). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Join Royal BC Museum biologists Claudia Copley, Darren Copley and Robb Bennett on a search for some of Victoria's local spiders during
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/60090/fieldtrippers-spider-sunday"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Fieldtrippers: Spider Sunday!</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
on October 2, 2016 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Beaver Lake Nature Centre (by donation).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Pop by for a free lunch-time lecture,
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/60113/live-lunch-invertebrate-collections"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Live @ Lunch: Invertebrate Collections</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">,
on Wednesday, October 5, 2016 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Community Room, right behind Sequoia Coastal Coffee. Collections Manager </span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/collections/collections-care/collections-managers#heidi-gartner"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Heidi
Gartner</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> will share what she discovered while researching in the field this summer.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Take part in a conference,
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/59462/women-and-leadership-radical-conversations-about-gender-justice"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Women and Leadership: Radical Conversations
about Gender Justice, Art and Reconciliation</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">, from Thursday, October 13 to Saturday, October 15, 2016. Explore issues of representation and reconciliation in museums on
Friday, October 14, 2016 from 2:15 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. </span><a href="https://sales.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Selection.aspx?item=780&sch=551130"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">$10 per person, 10 per cent member discount</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">.
Address the missing feminist narrative with a Feminist Museum Hack on Saturday October 15, 2016 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
</span><a href="http://sales.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Selection.aspx?item=780&sch=550447"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">$10 per person, 10 per cent member discount</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">In honour of
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/59463/home-movie-day"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Home Movie Day</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
on Saturday October 15, 2016, the museum is showing home movies from the BC Archives at the Majestic Theatre in Old Town. Included with admission or membership.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">There’s nothing the Royal BC Museum enjoys more than dressing up! Check out the museum’s Halloween decorations, throughout the galleries, the week before Halloween.
The family-centred Halloween fun continues with </span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/59193/wonder-sunday-creeping-and-crawling"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Wonder Sunday: Creeping
and Crawling</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:black"> on October 16, and 30, 2016 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. It is all about the animals of Halloween–bats, owls and spiders! Included with admission
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:black">The adult-only Halloween party,
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/65409/night-shift-haunted-hollywood"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Night Shift: Haunted Hollywood</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:black">,
on Saturday October 29, 2016, is so popular tickets sold out in one day. Our next Night Shift event will be in February for Valentine’s Day.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Friends of the BC Archives are hosting a free lecture,
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/60108/aqua-vitae-history-saloons-and-hotel-bars-victoria-1851%E2%80%931917"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Aqua Vitae: A History of the Saloons
and Hotel Bars of Victoria 1851-1917</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">, on Sunday October 30, 2016 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Newcombe Conference Hall.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">For more information on these and other events, or to purchase tickets, visit royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/calendar.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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 style="font-size:10.0pt;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 style="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 style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">250-387-3207
</span><a href="mailto:news@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">news@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
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