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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">September 18, 2018
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Royal BC Museum adds new content
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">to refresh the First Peoples Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC–</span></strong><a name="OLE_LINK5"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Over the decades, thousands of Royal
BC Museum visitors have peered with delight and interest at the detailed model of
<u>K</u>’uuna Llnagaay, also known as the village of Skedans, Haida Gwaii, one of the mesmerizing centrepieces of the First Peoples Gallery.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Now, thanks to detailed input from Guujaaw, Haida artist, leader and hereditary Chief Gidansda, the museum has added fresh new audiovisual and textual
material alongside the model village, providing an authoritative perspective and deeper cultural context.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">“Generations of visitors have learned about and reflected upon Indigenous cultures in the First Peoples Gallery,” says Prof. Jack Lohman, CEO of the Royal
BC Museum. “But recognizing that many of the displays are decades old, we welcome the opportunity to convey, with fresh perspectives and mediums, the deep history of places like Skedans, places</span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">that have enormous cultural significance for Indigenous people today.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The additions are part of an incremental series of updates to the First Peoples Gallery, changes that mirror a collaborative relationship between the
museum and the Indigenous peoples of BC and that reflect First Nations as living, contemporary and dynamic cultures.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Earlier this spring the museum added a new display on the gallery’s mezzanine featuring Tsamiianbaan (Willy White), Tsimshian weaver and teacher. The
display includes video footage of Mr. White weaving a Raven’s Tail dance apron in the Royal BC Museum galleries, dance aprons from the museum’s First Nations collections (including the one woven on-site by Mr. White) and new, vibrant explanatory text panels.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Recent additions like the Weaving and Skedans displays will impress upon visitors an important perspective: that First Nations traditions inform present-day cultural practices and
are integral to the vitality of community life. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Other upgrades, such as new lighting on the casts of petroglyphs on the upper walls of the First Peoples Gallery, enhance visitors’ experiences in these iconic spaces.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Royal BC Museum will continue to modernize the First Peoples Gallery with updated exhibits, new text panels and improvements to accessibility—always consulting with and listening
to Indigenous communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Great-West Life is a proud sponsor of the First Peoples Gallery re-scripting project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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. Located in Victoria on the traditional territory of
the Lekwungen (Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations), we are a hub of community connections in BC–onsite, offsite and online–taking pride in our collective histories.
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