Saturday, September 17, 2005
Royal BC Museum
You can tell that a museum is interesting when it takes Ed a full day to get through it and that was the case with the Royal BC Museum. The special exhibit at the museum was a collection of items from Tibet on loan from the Newark Museum – very interesting. The standard exhibits in the museum included a history of the local aboriginal population, history of fishing, mining, farming, and other industries as well as a geological overview of BC. In one exhibit you walked into a mine and looked down into shafts complete with real mining cars on tracks. Another exhibit was a street with various shops from a hundred years ago. You could look in some of the shop windows as well as walk up the stairs into the Grand Hotel and look at some of the rooms. In the exhibit on the local aboriginal civilization, they had an Indian long house complete with totem poles. I thought the exhibits were really quite well done. Also, there is the National Geographic IMAX theater attached to the museum. We opted to see the movie called Bears on the super sized screen.
one of the exhibits in the museum, a street from a century ago
one of the exhibits in the museum, a street from a century ago
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