In case you haven’t heard, the Vancouver Museum–which shares the iconic domed building in Vanier Park (featured in countless postcards) with the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre –is reinventing itself. The museum, a Vancouver institution since the early 1900s, has re-named itself Museum of Vancouver as part of a wider revitalization program to attract new visitors and become a more vital part of city life.
(My best guess as to why they changed the name: MOV is a hipper acronym than VM.)
To inaugurate the new MOV, a new exhibit opened this week: Velo-City: Vancouver and the Bicycle Revolution, just in time for Bike Month.
The 7500 square foot exhibit explores contemporary and future cycling in Vancouver, and includes streaming images of Vancouverites and their bikes. You can be part of the streaming-images display by adding your own biking-in-Vancouver photo via MOV’s Flickr group page.
Velo-City runs June 4 – September 7, 2009.
Love bikes and Shakespeare? You can catch Bard on the Beach during the same visit, since it’s in Vanier Park, too.
