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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">March 30, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">It’s all relative at the Royal BC Museum’s newest feature exhibition
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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"">VICTORIA, BC—Can you choose your family? Or is it determined by blood? This is the central question of the Royal
BC Museum’s newest feature exhibition, <i>Family: Bonds and Belonging,</i> open June 2 to October 31, 2017.
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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"">Visitors are challenged to dismantle traditional ideas of what family is, to kick down the “white picket fence” surrounding
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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"">Looking at historic and contemporary First Nations, settler and recent immigrant families together, visitors can
draw connections between different manifestations of family. They will discover the universal themes that unite families across these differences.
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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 story of family is told through seemingly innocuous objects: everyday items that are the witnesses to our lives.
Some are familiar and some aren’t, depending on what life experiences visitors bring to the exhibition.
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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"">“</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">This major exhibition
explores the role of families in BC and what connects the past with the future,”
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">said Prof. Jack Lohman, CEO of the Royal BC Museum.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">“We can't be sure what future generations will know about our lives in order to understand their own so we have brought together rarely seen treasures, albums, portraits
and costumes to show that belonging is more than tradition, habit or prejudice.” <br>
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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 exhibition explores the positive and negative aspects of family; the joy and the pain that these bonds can elicit.
On this journey, delve into your own idea of family, learn about others and discover tools to begin your own genealogical research.
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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"">Visitors can engage with the exhibition on social media with
<b>#RBCMFamily </b>to<b> </b>share their own family photos and impressions of the exhibition.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">A companion book
</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:black">The Language of Family: Stories of Bonds and Belonging,
</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:black">will be available June 1, 2017. Twenty contributors from across British Columbia share their vastly differing perspectives on what family means in
this superb collection of personal narratives, poems and essays. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Family: Bonds and Belonging
</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">is made possible through the generous support of Tourism Victoria, the Kermode Group and the Royal BC Museum Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.3pt;text-autospace:none"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Terry Fox: Running to the Heart of Canada</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" 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"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Royal BC Museum is hosting a complimentary exhibition about a great Canadian hero–Terry Fox. Terry
Fox’s family set an inspiring example of the incredible strength of family bonds. Learn more about the young man who inspired the nation with his Marathon of Hope. The exhibition is on display from April 12 to October 1, 2017.
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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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