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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"">November 25, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Snow place like the Royal BC Museum in December
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55""> </span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">VICTORIA, BC–</span></strong><a name="OLE_LINK5"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">Although
the Royal BC Museum does not have a partridge specimen in its collection or a pear tree in its Native Plant Garden, it certainly offers its visitors at least twelve days of family fun this December.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Feeling festive? Savour the sights and sounds of
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/60105/christmas-old-town"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Christmas in Old Town</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">,
bedecked in seasonal finery</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55""> from November 21, 2016 to January 9, 2017; access is included with museum admission or membership. Save yourself and your children from mall-Santa
mayhem and enjoy a civilized visit with kindly </span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/60105/christmas-old-town"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Father Christmas in Old Town</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">
for a photo op and a chance to share your wish list, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in December (<span style="color:black">2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 & 18</span>) from 11:00am to 3:00pm.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">This is included with admission or museum membership (photos by donation).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Step through the doors of the oldest house in British Columbia still on its original site and experience what Christmas would have been like more than 100 years
ago at </span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/60106/helmcken-house-old-fashioned-christmas"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Helmcken House Old-Fashioned Christmas</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">,</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">
from December 17 to 31, 12:00pm to 4:00pm, included with museum membership, admission or by donation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Enjoy the joyful camaraderie of</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt">
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/60104/10th-annual-carol-along-carillon"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Carol-Along with the Carillon</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">
on December 4 from 4:30pm to 5:15pm. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Hot chocolate and cookies help brighten the season and at the end of the
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">free
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">forty-five minute set, the Carillon is lit for the holidays.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:black">Hanukkah, Christmas and Solstice are just a few of the ways that people around BC come together during this time of year. Come share your traditions
and learn from others at </span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/59200/wonder-sunday-season-celebration"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Wonder Sunday: A Season of Celebration</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:black">
on December 4, 11 and 18 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">This program is included with admission or museum membership</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:black">.
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/103691/celebrate-season-stories-helmcken-house"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Celebrate the Season with Stories at Helmcken House</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:black">
on December 17 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm and 3:00pm to 4:00pm, free. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Hear archivist
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/bc-archives/archivists#dennis-duffy"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Dennis Duffy</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55""> discuss
the impact and legacy of BC filmmaker Stanley Fox, and watch two of his earliest films at the free
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/60111/live-lunch-filmmaker-stanley-fox"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Live at Lunch</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">
event on December 7 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. Tim Burkhart, Peace River Break Coordinator for the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, will make a free presentation,
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/103440/keeping-peace-conservation-challenges-and-opportunities"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Keeping the Peace: Conservation Challenges and
Opportunities in Magnificent Northeast BC</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">,</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55""> on December
8 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. For a hands-on, outdoor learning opportunity that kids will love, join Royal BC Museum researchers as they conduct an evening beach seine at Willows Beach for
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/60092/fieldtrippers-seine-sailfins-shrimps-and-sea-slugs"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Fieldtrippers: In-seine Sailfins, Shrimps and Sea Slugs!</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">
on December 12 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm. Attendance by donation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">The Royal BC Museum will be saying</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">
</span></strong><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">Do svidaniya!
</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">to Lyuba, the mummified baby mammoth currently on display in the feature exhibition
<i>Mammoths! Giants of the Ice Age</i>. Lyuba is heading home to Russia after the exhibition closes on December 31, 2016. Come see this popular display before it is too late.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">Celebrate the last night of 2016 at the family-friendly
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/59209/early-shift-going-away-party-mammoths"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";background:white">Early Shift: Going away party for
<i>Mammoths!</i></span></a><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">
</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#1D2129;background:white">from 6:00pm to 9:00pm on December 31, 2016. Tickets are $24 for adults and $16 for youth (10 per cent discount for members).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:black">The Royal BC Museum is open every day of the holidays except for December 25, 2016 and January 1, 2017. Enjoy food and drinks at the
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/plan-your-visit/eat-drink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Sequoia Coastal Coffee</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:black">
café every day the museum is open or at the </span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/plan-your-visit/eat-drink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Food Truck Festival</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:black">,
open every day except December 24, 2016 to January 1, 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.05pt">For more information about these and other events, please visit<b>
</b></span></em><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";letter-spacing:.05pt">royalbcmuseum.bc.ca</span></a><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.05pt">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">About the Royal BC Museum<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"">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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