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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><a name="OLE_LINK3"></a><a name="OLE_LINK4"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">August 4, 2020
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<b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Royal BC Museum seeks the public’s observations
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<b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">and perspectives on nature for its COVID-19 project
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC</span></b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">—As British Columbians enjoy their back yards, spectacular
parks and wilderness areas during the long days of summer, the Royal BC Museum invites them to add their observations on nature to the
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/tell-us-your-covid-19-story"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">COVID-19 Collecting For Our Time project</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The project, which
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/sites/default/files/documents/releases/4-21-2020_new_pandemic_project.pdf"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">launched</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
in April 2020, asks British Columbians to share the stories of their experiences during the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">“This project</span>,
<span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">an open invitation for all BC residents to participate in the museum process, highlights the perspectives of ordinary people living through extraordinary times,” said Royal BC Museum CEO Prof. Jack
Lohman. “As a museum of human <u>and</u> natural history, we welcome British Columbians to share their experiences of nature during the pandemic.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white">Scientists have recently
</span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1237-z"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white">coined the phrase</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white">
“the anthropause” to describe the global slowdown in human activity (especially travel) during the pandemic.
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white">With this in mind, the museum is asking people to consider two major questions: Since the pandemic reached British Columbia,
what are you seeing in nature that’s changing? What has been your personal experience of nature during the pandemic?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">To answer these questions,<span style="color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white"> people can
</span>use the project’s online submission form: </span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/covid-19-collecting-our-time"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/covid-19-collecting-our-time</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white">Since the project began, the museum and archives has received hundreds of stories, thoughts,
photos and videos from across BC. Many of these submissions reflect people’s relationships with other people—especially family members, caregivers, front-line workers and teachers—and often in domestic or institutional settings. You can see a selection here:
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/recent-submissions"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white">royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/recent-submissions</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white">.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white">As the province moves through the stages of the
</span><a href="https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/emergency-preparedness-response-recovery/covid-19-provincial-support/bc-restart-plan"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white">Restart Plan</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white">,
the museum and archives will keep gathering BC’s pandemic stories. The Royal BC Museum hopes to build a longer-term collecting project to capture this legacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">For more information about the Royal BC Museum’s COVID-19 Collecting For Our Time project, visit
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 45 Light","sans-serif"">About the Royal BC Museum:
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 45 Light","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. 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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