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National Indigenous History Month | |
We invite you to explore the Indigenous History Month display in MOV’s community gallery. This display combines Indigenous collections from MOV with digital stories from Indigenous knowledge holders and community members.
🔸Portrait of "Capilano Mary", Margaret Wake
🔸No More Stolen Sisters, Pow Wow Jacket, Rebecca Lyon
🔸swéwkw'elh, Dance robe of Lixwelut, Mary Capilano Squamish
🔸Reflections on Yellow Cedar Bark with Sesemiya, Tracy Williams
🔸Triptych painting, “Temíxw,” Stories from the Land, Chief Ian Campbell
This display will be on view until the end of June 2023. Admission into MOV is always free for those who self-identify as Indigenous.
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Objective Objects: An Exhibition Tour into the World of Tobias Wong
Thursday, June 29, 2023 | 6:00 - 7:30pm
Join Cheryl Wong, Melanie Moreno and Mika Abele, graduates of the Emily Carr University of Art + Design curatorial program, for a tour of Tobias Wong’s work in the exhibition All We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project. Tobias Wong’s work spans art, design and performance, and uses his signature dark humor and wit to challenge how we think about everyday objects.
We invite you to hear our interpretations of the exhibition as we delve into the unique personality and life of Tobias Wong, and explore how he altered objects in unexpected ways to make clever statements. Through the critical lens of Wong’s work, we will examine definitions of value, mass consumption, and ask ourselves - is it possible to make original work?
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Two July tour dates just announced! | |
Dressed for History Exhibition Tour with Fashion Historian Ivan Sayers
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 & Thursday, July 27, 2023
Join fashion historian Ivan Sayers, as he guides us through remarkable and rare collections of women’s fashion from 1750 to 2000 in the Dressed for History: Why Costume Collections Matter exhibition.
Ivan’s collection is one of four featured in the exhibition along with Claus Jahnke, Melanie Talkington and the members of the BC Society for the Museum of Original Costume (SMOC). The Museum of Vancouver has invited these collectors to share their deep knowledge of costume history by showcasing pieces from their collections. Dressed for History: Why Costume Collections Matter makes the case that fashion and costumes are significant and enduring expressions of personal identity and of political and social change. This exhibition confirms Vancouver as home to world-class costume interpreters, collectors and historians.
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Just 1 month left to view! | |
All We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project
On view until July 23, 2023
Come see why Tobias Wong remains one of Canada’s most brilliant and provocative designers! Wong was irreverent, witty and thought-provoking. He edited pieces by famous artists and designers, appropriated brand imagery and transformed everyday objects to give them new status and meaning.
His work questioned notions of authorship, originality and the value we assign to objects in our lives. This exhibition presents over 60 projects by Wong, most of them from the Tobias Wong Estate collection. Curated by MOV curator of contemporary culture, Viviane Gosselin, the exhibition relies on research that involved conducting interviews with design collaborators around the world to draw a rich portrait of the artist’s remarkable contribution.
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Upcoming Exhibition - Opening July 20, 2023 | | |
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Reclaim + Repair: The Mahogany Project
Opening July 20, 2023
Kaly Ryan (@designbycapella), having noticed that accessible design is rarely seen as valuable or stylish, is re-imagining assistive furniture. Using vintage and reclaimed mahogany wood for her latest design, Kaly hopes to start a conversation about sustainability and beauty as necessary features to incorporate into the future of accessible design.
Kaly Ryan of Capella Design is one of the designers featured in Reclaim + Repair: The Mahogany Project, an exhibition opening at MOV on July 20, 2023. This exhibition will celebrate the creativity and craft of Vancouver’s design community, while engaging with questions central to the role of design in advancing sustainability as well as social and environmental justice. This exhibition is curated by Propellor Studio and in collaboration with MOV.
A diverse group of both emerging and seasoned local designers and makers have been selected to create objects made from vintage mahogany provided by MOV. The exhibition will feature a wide array of design objects from furniture, lighting and household objects, to jewelry, and so much more.
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Dressed for History and more at the MOV
The Source
Along with its permanent galleries, the Museum of Vancouver typically hosts a number of temporary exhibitions. Four temporary exhibitions are presently being showcased at the museum: That Which Sustains Us is about traditions that included Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh cultural experts as well as environmental historians and forestry researchers; The City before the City is an exhibition featuring c̓əsnaʔəm, an important ancestral village of the Musqueam First Nation; All We Want is More presents over 70 works by Tobias Wong, the majority from the Wong Estate collection; and the visually stunning Dressed for History is a private collection of women fashion from 1750 to 2000, showcasing how people dress reveals so much about who they are, what they do and what they value.
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Vancouver City Poems Video Poetry Awards & Screening
The Runner
Vancouver poet laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam hosted a screening and awards ceremony for student-made poetry videos at the Museum of Vancouver on June 11. The 33 videos about Vancouver’s historical, cultural, and ecological sites made up stage two of the City Poems Contest, Lam’s legacy project as the city’s sixth poet laureate.
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A Seat at the Table has moved to Cumberland! | |
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A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia
Cumberland Museum & Archives - on view June 10, 2023 - June 2024
The award winning exhibition A Seat at the Table, Chinese Immigration and British Columbia is now on display at Cumberland Museum & Archives. A Seat at the Table is an opportunity to consider the contributions that Chinese migrants and their descendants have made to British Columbia, a province built from the interaction of successive and concurrent waves of migration and uninterrupted occupation by Indigenous peoples.
Using food as an entry point, this exhibition highlights stories that reveal the great diversity of immigrant experiences and of the communities immigrants develop. One of the largest museum projects on Chinese Canadian history and culture in Canada to date, it addresses themes of belonging, racism, agency, resilience and reparation as important facets of the complex picture of Chinese migrants and their descendants in the province.
Cumberland was once a major hub of Chinese Canadian immigration in BC, and to this day former Cumberland Chinatown residents and their descendants reunite annually to celebrate their community. A Seat at the Table tells diverse stories of Chinese Canadians in BC, while highlighting Cumberland’s rich Chinese Canadian heritage.
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Know before you go:
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Museum of Vancouver is open from Sunday-Wednesday 10:00am - 5:00pm and Thursday-Saturday 10:00am - 8:00pm.
- Please note that ticket sales end 45 minutes before closing.
- Visit MOV on the first Sunday of each month and pay what you can for admission.
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We are located at 1100 Chestnut Street in beautiful Vanier Park in the neighborhood of Kitsilano in Vancouver.
- The Museum is wheelchair, stroller and scooter accessible, including washrooms, ramps and elevators, and wide entrances and exits.
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When booked in advance, groups of 10 people or more are eligible for a discounted rate. Learn more.
- Admission is free for the people who self-identify as Indigenous.
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Mini Makers presents...
Art and Culture Camp at MOV
Monday, August 21, 2023 - Friday, August 25, 2023 | 8:30am - 4:00pm
This Art & Culture Camp is designed to spark kids’ curiosity and critical thinking through hands-on, inquiry-based activities. The museum’s aim is to be a gathering space that fosters connection, learning, and new experiences of Vancouver’s diverse communities and histories.
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We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. | | |
604-736-4431
1100 Chestnut Street
Vancouver, BC
V6J 3J9
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