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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="OLE_LINK12"></a><a name="OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">October 17, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Get into the spirit with Museum Happy Hour
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at the Royal BC Museum <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC –</span><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> Bored with your book club? Scrabble night feeling a little lame? Try
out a new recurring date–Museum Happy Hour at the Royal BC Museum. You won’t find a better combination for your post-work wind down than museum + friends + drinks.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Chill by the ice wall next to the Woolly Mammoth, hit the cobblestone streets in Old Town, snap a sea lion selfie in the coastal diorama and dance with
bears in the forest display. Get an insider’s look and see the museum after dark.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">“People often come to the museum in school groups and then don’t visit again until they bring their own kids,” says Head of Learning, Janet MacDonald.
“Museum Happy Hour is for young professionals who are in that gap and are looking for a unique, unconventional museum experience.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Museum Happy Hour runs on Thursdays in November from 5pm-7pm and is $10 per person (10 percent member discount). Each features fun interactive programs based on a theme and set
amid the museum’s galleries and exhibits. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">November 10: “On the Home Front”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Step back into 1940s and contribute to the war effort on the home front. Gather around the stand-up radio and listen to news of the war (from the CBC Digital Archives), learn to
dance at the Train Station in Old Town, watch short films (from the National Film Board) from the era in the Majestic Theatre, knit socks for soldiers, hear a player piano and live pianist perform 1940s tunes, discover what to do during an air raid, find out
how to black out your home, talk to actors in period costume and see a live demonstration of war-time hair, make-up and outfits.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">November 17: “New Ways of Looking”<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white">Pick up a little extra knowledge about the natural world to amp up your conversational value at cocktail parties.</span><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Use interactive technology to experience the Natural History gallery from a new perspective, by being among the first to try our new augmented reality app. You'll never see our
Mammoth the same way again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Head over to the coastal diorama and listen to nine original soundscape compositions from the </span><a href="http://www.bamfieldmsc.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Bamfield
Marine Sciences Centre's</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> summer 2016 Acoustic Ethnography course. Recorded on location, these works also use archival sounds from the </span><a href="http://www.bamfieldhistory.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Bamfield Historical
Society</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> and sounds from the deep ocean collected by
</span><a href="http://www.oceannetworks.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Ocean Networks Canada</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">. Enjoy these soundscapes from above, below and
beyond coastal BC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">November 24: “Press Record”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt">Stop in for a drink and a little taste of history.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt">Fancy yourself the next Ira Glass? Record an oral history and your interview might become part of our new podcast.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt">Feeling more like sitting back and relaxing with a good film? Enjoy home movies from our Archives in the Majestic Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt">More information:
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/learn/adult-programming/museum-happy-hour"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";letter-spacing:.1pt">royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/learn/adult-programming/museum-happy-hour</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt">Museum Happy Hour will return with a new series in the spring.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">About the Royal BC Museum</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></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, 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"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Media contact:</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<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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