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Featured Attraction of the Week: Royal BC Museum (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

by Inside Vancouver in Deals on November 5, 2012

Photo: Paul Nicklen (Canada) / Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012

Back by popular demand, Inside Vancouver has relaunched the “Featured Attraction of the Week” series. Each Monday we’ll be featuring a different Vancouver attraction and will be giving away free tickets to our readers. To be eligible, all you have to do is post a comment.

The featured attraction for this week is the Royal BC Museum, and its wildly popular Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 feature exhibition, on from November 30, 2012 to April 1, 2013.
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Featured Attraction of the Week: Royal BC Museum (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Extravagant Glamour: Art Deco Chic at MOV

by Dana Lynch in Town on March 8, 2012

Art Deco Chic exhibit at MOV. Photo: Dana Lynch

Last night, I attended the opening night party for the Museum of Vancouver’s (MOV) newest exhibition: Art Deco Chic: Extravagant Glamour Between the Wars. Not only did we get to be the first official visitors to see the new exhibit, it was a smashing party, too, complete with a packed house, visitors decked out in their own Art Deco garb, wine, food, and a live dance performance!

Of course, it was the Art Deco Chic exhibit itself that inspired the party, which is only natural since the exquisite garments on display seem to want a fabulous event to attend. (Even the day dresses are glamourous!) The exhibit brings together 66 items that epitomize Art Deco fashion, clothes and accessories from the 1920s – 1930s; most items come from the private collections of Guest Curators Ivan Sayers and Claus Jahnke, as well as MOV’s own extensive archive.

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Extravagant Glamour: Art Deco Chic at MOV

BC Sports Hall of Fame Celebrates Vancouver Olympics with Red Mitten Weekend February 11 & 12

by Dana Lynch in Sports on February 2, 2012

BC Sports Hall of Fame and Musem. Photo: The Province / Jenelle Schneider, PNG

The excitement and wonder of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics lives on in the hearts and minds of Vancouverites, and next weekend you can relive the glory at the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum with their special Red Mitten Weekend in honour of the second anniversary of the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Red Mitten Weekend runs February 11 – 12, 2012, and offers half-priced admission all weekend, plus free admission for the first 25 kids wearing their 2010 Olympics red mittens. It’s a chance to see the new additions to the museum made during its remodeling (which coincided with the remodeling of BC Place), including the new Vancouver 2010 / Olympic Inspirations Gallery, the new Hall of Champions (an interactive exhibit on BC’s sports’ legends), the new special exhibit “The Dream Card” Hockey Card Collection, and the new Our Teams/Our Turf Gallery featuring the Vancouver Whitecaps and BC Lions.

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BC Sports Hall of Fame Celebrates Vancouver Olympics with Red Mitten Weekend February 11 & 12

openMOV: MOV’s 70,000 Collection Now Online

by Dana Lynch in Town on November 15, 2011

Ferguson Point Tea House flyer, c. 1951 to 1960; one of the many Vancouver artifacts accessible online at openMOV. Photo: Museum of Vancouver

The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) has just made it easier to learn more about Vancouver’s storied history with openMOV, a new online database that lets users access all 70,000 artifacts in the Museum’s collection.

Custom-made for MOV by Vancouver‐based Fuse Interactive, openMOV allows users to search for objects by keyword, by “department” (e.g., Asian Studies, History), by “Geocultural area,” and by place of origin. Currently, only 10,000 items are accompanied by images, but MOV plans to increase that number as quickly as possible.

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Chosen Family Portraits at MOV

by Dana Lynch in Vancouverites on August 10, 2011

One of the Vancouver family portraits on display at MOV's "Chosen Family Portraits" exhibit. Photo: MOV

“There are the families we are born with and there are the families that we choose.”

That’s the theme of a engaging new exhibit at the Museum of Vancouver (MOV): Chosen Family Portraits. Created in conjunction with the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Chosen Family Portraits is a community-based art project that lovingly captures “chosen” (i.e., not necessarily biologically or legally linked) families among Vancouver’s queer, gay, lesbian, and transgender population.

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Chosen Family Portraits at MOV