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Museum of Vancouver

February 16, 2024

The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) (formerly the Vancouver Museum and prior to that the Centennial Museum) is a civic history museum located in Vanier Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. The MOV is the largest civic museum in Canada and the oldest museum in Vancouver. The museum was founded in 1894 and went through a number of iterations before being rebranded as the Museum of Vancouver in 2009. It creates Vancouver-focused exhibitions and programs that encourage conversations about what was, is, and can be Vancouver. It shares an entrance and foyer with the H. R. MacMillan Space Centre but the MOV is much larger and occupies the vast majority of the space in the building complex where both organisations sit as well as separate collections storage facilities in another building.[2]

Museum of Vancouver
Established1894
LocationVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
TypeCivic museum
Visitors78,101 (2018)[1]
DirectorMauro Vescera - CEO
CuratorViviane Gosselin, Wendy Nichols
Websitemuseumofvancouver.ca

History edit

The museum was founded by the Art, Historical, and Scientific Association of Vancouver (AHSA), which formed on April 17, 1894, with the objective of cultivating "a taste for the beauties and refinements in life."[3] Shortly after its inaugural meeting the AHSA opened its first temporary exhibition ('Paintings and Curiosities') in rented premises on the top floor of the Dunn Building on Granville Street, Vancouver.[4] This exhibition triggered a series of donations to the new museum's collections which were mostly natural history or ethnographic in origin. The first recorded donation to the collection was of taxidermy - a stuffed Trumpeter Swan which was donated by Mr Sydney Williams in 1895.[5] Regular purchasing of artefacts for the collections of the AHSA began in 1898 and acquisitions were eclectic and multi-disciplinary reflecting the interests of the decision-makers rather than any strategic approach to collecting.[4]

 
The museum opened in 1905, at the top floor of the Carnegie Library.

As the collection grew the question was raised as to a permanent place to display it and following discussions with the Vancouver City Council agreement was reached on August 26, 1903 that title to the museum collection would pass to the Council in exchange for the provision of suitable and convenient premises where they could be displayed.[4] It was agreed at the same time that the new museum would be located on the top floor of the new Carnegie Library. The museum opened at this location on April 19, 1905.[4]

Between 1915 and 1925 the museum and the AHSA attempted to establish in Stanley Park a reconstructed First Nations village built around a series of major totem and house poles that had been acquired by the AHSA. This project ultimately failed but it did result in the current display of totem poles in Stanley Park which remain one of the most photographed tourist attractions in Vancouver.[4]

In 1930 the museum sponsored an extensive series of archaeological excavations of the Marpole Midden which was one of the most important archaeological sites on the Pacific Northwest Coast but was also an unceded ancestral territory of the Musqueam First Nation and was where the village of c̓əsnaʔəm (Musqueam Marpole Village Site) had been located. The outcome of this has been dealt with in the award-winning exhibition c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city, a joint project between the Musqueam Indian Band, the Museum of Vancouver and the Museum of Anthropology.

In 1957 the public library which shared the Carnegie building with the museum moved to a new dedicated building in Burrard Street tripling the available storage and display space for the museum and in 1959 the museum was incorporated into the City Council and became a city department under the control of a Civic Museum Board. A report was commissioned on the future of the museum (the Heinrich Report of 1965) and this recommended the building of a new museum on the south shore of False Creek near the Burrard Bridge. Federal and provincial money was made available for the 1967 Confederation Centennial celebrations and the current building was constructed which opened to the public in October 1968. From the opening of the new museum building to 1981, the museum was branded as Centennial Museum; before reverting its name back to Vancouver Museum.

In 1972 the city council relinquished its control of the museum and a joint Museum and Planetarium Association was formed as a descendant of the original AHSA which founded the museum. In 1977 the museum was designated a Category A cultural institution by the federal government and named in the Cultural Property Export and Import Act.

In 2009, the museum was re-branded as the Museum of Vancouver, in an attempt to reflect its changed focus to Vancouver rather than the lower mainland region of British Columbia as originally set out in its objectives and reaffirmed in 1977.[4]

Building edit

 
The Museum of Vancouver as seen from Vanier Park. The museum is situated at the southern portion of the park.

The building is located at 1100 Chestnut Street in Vanier Park, in the neighbourhood of Kitsilano in Vancouver, BC. The museum is situated at the south end of Vanier Park, with the park acting as a connecting greenspace between the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Bard on the Beach, the Vancouver Archives, and the Vancouver Academy of Music.

The building was constructed in 1967 to a design by the architect Gerald Hamilton who had studied at Leeds University before moving to Vancouver in 1950. Hamilton was a practitioner of the New Formalism school of architecture and its most visible proponent in Vancouver at the time.

Originally, the building was planned to only house a museum, but a generous gift by the lumber magnate H.R. MacMillan allowed the architect to incorporate a planetarium into the design. The distinctive roof was added as a pre-construction modification designed to reflect the shape of a woven basket hat made by Northwest Coast First Nations people, but because the roof also resembles a flying saucer there has been ongoing confusion over the identity of the building, with many people mistakenly assuming it houses only the planetarium when the majority of the building is occupied by the Museum of Vancouver. The planetarium was renamed the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in the late 1990s.[2] The building was officially dedicated on May 20, 1967 and the ceremony was attended by Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, who was the granddaughter of Queen Mary and King George V and also a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

Alex Bozikovic remarks that the building closesly resembles the John Nugent Studio designed by Saskatchewan architect Clifford Wiens built six years earlier.[6] The building is considered iconic by Vancouverites and is one of the most immediately recognisable buildings in Vancouver.[7] It was nicknamed 'the Taj Mahal on the creek' when first built and is characterised by its sweeping conical shape and reflecting pools crossed by curved pedestrian bridges.[8]

Collection edit

The museum has a large collection of objects which reflect to a large extent the interests of the donors and of the curators who made decisions on acquisitions over the years in a similar way to many museums that were established in this way. The collection is nationally significant but much of it remains in storage due to a lack of exhibition space.

The collection includes the First Nations and Oriental artefacts that were collected by Mary Lipsett who established along with her husband the Lipsett Indian Museum which opened in a former aquarium in the PNE grounds in 1941. This collection was said to be the finest in Canada when reported on by the Vancouver Sun in 1948 and Mary Lipsett was well-respected for her positive relationship with the First Nations and was honoured with the Kwawlewith name 'Ha-wini-po-la-o-gua', which means “a matriarch to whom many come for good counsel.”[9] She donated the entire collection to the then Vancouver Museum and it remains in storage there.

Particular strengths in the MOV collection include:[4]

Ethnology edit

One of the most significant Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations collections in Canada with assemblages such as:

  • Argillite carvings
  • Small wooden carvings (mini totem poles, figures)
  • Monumental wooden sculptures (totem poles, house posts)
  • Baskets (extensive including Nuu-chah-nuith and Coast Salish)
  • Objects carved by Charles Edenshaw including the Edenshaw Casket
  • Glass slides painted by Frederick Alexcee
  • Basket and bracelet collected by George Vancouver on his first voyage to the Pacific Northwest
  • Selected masks, boxes, bowls, canoes, carvings, regalia
  • Pauline Johnson's performance costume
  • Human seated figure bowls and other anthropomorphic or zoomorphic carvings in stone

Asian antiquities edit

These include collections such as:

  • Chinese art objects dating from the Shang dynasty (16th-11th century BCE) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) including a comprehensive ceramics collection from the Han dynasty (206 BCE- 220 CE) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911; a comprehensive coin collection; ivory carvings, jade carvings, lacquer objects, snuff bottles, textiles, and armour, largely form the Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
  • Japanese objects dating from the Muromachi period (1392-1572) to the Meiji period (1868-1912 ) including woodblock prints, ceramics, ivory carvings, textiles, armour, swords, sword accessories, Buddhist and Shinto objects and dolls (20th century). The sword guard collection of over 400 items is the finest public collection in Canada.
  • Indian, Nepalese and Tibetan stone, wood and bronze sculpture, textiles and paintings from the 16th to 20th century.
  • Thai bronze Buddhist statues, Buddhist scriptures, textiles and ceramics dating from the 12th to the 20th century.
  • Vietnamese and Cambodian ceramics.

Egyptian antiquities edit

These include:

  • Ancient Egyptian collection, especially mummified boy (previously nicknamed 'Diana') discovered one mile from the Valley of the Kings near Luxor in 1915. The mummy wrappings are inscribed "Penechates, son of Hatres" and it probably dates from the 1st to the 3rd century CE
  • Mummified crocodiles, hawk and cats
  • Material excavated by Sir Flinders Petrie who was a member of the Vancouver Museum Board in 1934

History of Vancouver edit

These include objects such as:

  • Furnishings and memorabilia related to important individuals, civic events, functions and structures
  • Edwardian household furnishings and accessories, including an excellent collection of locally-made stained glass
  • Street furniture, including signs, street lamps, mailboxes and building fragments from Vancouver
  • Material related to Chinatown and the Chinese community, especially the Yip Family Collection from the Wing Sang Building
  • Tools, equipment and furnishings related to Vancouver shops, businesses and industries
  • Women’s clothing shoes and accessories worn and/or made in Vancouver, c. 1870-1980
  • Toys, dolls and children’s clothing used in Vancouver, c. 1890-1980
  • Objects used in the communication of sounds and images in Vancouver, c. 1890-1970
  • Paintings by early Vancouver artists 1900s-1930s
  • Objects related to major events: Habitat 76, EXPO 86, 1990 Gay Games, 2010 Olympic Games
  • Objects related to Rogers Sugar Refinery
  • Uniforms, accessories, badges, ephemera, etc. related to public transit from BCER to Translink
  • An extensive collection of neon signs

Galleries edit

 
Neon Vancouver | Ugly Vancouver is a permanent gallery that showcases former neon signs found in Vancouver from the 1950s to 1970s

The museum has a number of permanent galleries that cover the entire history of Vancouver in an experience which includes sound and film. In addition to the historical permanent galleries, permanent galleries at the Museum of Vancouver include:[10]

  • Neon Vancouver | Ugly Vancouver
  • 1900s–1920s History Gallery: Gateway to the Pacific
  • 1930s–1940s History Gallery: Boom, Bust, and War
  • 1950s History Gallery: Vancouver in The Fifties
  • 1960s–1970s History Gallery: You Say You Want A Revolution

While most of these galleries explore the history of Vancouver during its specified time period, the Neon Vancouver gallery features a collection of neon signs that were used in Vancouver from the 1950s to 1970s.[10]

Along with its permanent galleries, the Museum of Vancouver typically hosts a number of temporary exhibitions. Three temporary exhibitions are presently held at the museum. The c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city exhibition was developed in partnership with the Musqueam Indian Band, with plans to remain at the museum from January 2015 to January 2021. The second exhibition, HAIDA NOW: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition opened at the museum in March 2018, and will continue to be held there until June 2021.[11] The museum's most recent exhibition, Acts of Resistance, opened on February 5, 2020 and runs until December 2020.[12]

References edit

  1. ^ "2018 Annual Report" (PDF). Museum of Vancouver. 2019. p. 10. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b MOV Functioal Program Report, July 2013 Aldrich Pears
  3. ^ "Our detailed History," Museum of Vancouver online 2011-08-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Cabinets of Curiosities - Collections of the Vancouver Museum 1894-1981. Vancouver: Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association. 1981. ISBN 0-919253-06-7.
  5. ^ "Trumpeter swan specimen | Museum of Vancouver". www.museumofvancouver.ca. Retrieved 2017-01-23.
  6. ^ Bozikovic, Alex (23 February 2020). "Brilliant Saskatchewan architect Clifford Wiens created poetic structures". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  7. ^ "Vancouver Icons: Planetarium Building". 24 May 2012.
  8. ^ "Heritage Vancouver Newsletter September 2001" (PDF).
  9. ^ "This week in history 1948 an extraordinary collection".
  10. ^ a b "Current Exhibitions & History Galleries". Museum of Vancouver. 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  11. ^ "Haida Now".
  12. ^ "Acts of Resistance". MOV | Museum of Vancouver. Retrieved 2020-02-12.

External links edit

  • Official website

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The Museum of Vancouver MOV formerly the Vancouver Museum and prior to that the Centennial Museum is a civic history museum located in Vanier Park Vancouver British Columbia The MOV is the largest civic museum in Canada and the oldest museum in Vancouver The museum was founded in 1894 and went through a number of iterations before being rebranded as the Museum of Vancouver in 2009 It creates Vancouver focused exhibitions and programs that encourage conversations about what was is and can be Vancouver It shares an entrance and foyer with the H R MacMillan Space Centre but the MOV is much larger and occupies the vast majority of the space in the building complex where both organisations sit as well as separate collections storage facilities in another building 2 Museum of VancouverEstablished1894LocationVancouver British Columbia CanadaTypeCivic museumVisitors78 101 2018 1 DirectorMauro Vescera CEOCuratorViviane Gosselin Wendy NicholsWebsitemuseumofvancouver wbr ca Contents 1 History 2 Building 3 Collection 3 1 Ethnology 3 2 Asian antiquities 3 3 Egyptian antiquities 3 4 History of Vancouver 4 Galleries 5 References 6 External linksHistory editThe museum was founded by the Art Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver AHSA which formed on April 17 1894 with the objective of cultivating a taste for the beauties and refinements in life 3 Shortly after its inaugural meeting the AHSA opened its first temporary exhibition Paintings and Curiosities in rented premises on the top floor of the Dunn Building on Granville Street Vancouver 4 This exhibition triggered a series of donations to the new museum s collections which were mostly natural history or ethnographic in origin The first recorded donation to the collection was of taxidermy a stuffed Trumpeter Swan which was donated by Mr Sydney Williams in 1895 5 Regular purchasing of artefacts for the collections of the AHSA began in 1898 and acquisitions were eclectic and multi disciplinary reflecting the interests of the decision makers rather than any strategic approach to collecting 4 nbsp The museum opened in 1905 at the top floor of the Carnegie Library As the collection grew the question was raised as to a permanent place to display it and following discussions with the Vancouver City Council agreement was reached on August 26 1903 that title to the museum collection would pass to the Council in exchange for the provision of suitable and convenient premises where they could be displayed 4 It was agreed at the same time that the new museum would be located on the top floor of the new Carnegie Library The museum opened at this location on April 19 1905 4 Between 1915 and 1925 the museum and the AHSA attempted to establish in Stanley Park a reconstructed First Nations village built around a series of major totem and house poles that had been acquired by the AHSA This project ultimately failed but it did result in the current display of totem poles in Stanley Park which remain one of the most photographed tourist attractions in Vancouver 4 In 1930 the museum sponsored an extensive series of archaeological excavations of the Marpole Midden which was one of the most important archaeological sites on the Pacific Northwest Coast but was also an unceded ancestral territory of the Musqueam First Nation and was where the village of c esnaʔem Musqueam Marpole Village Site had been located The outcome of this has been dealt with in the award winning exhibition c esnaʔem the city before the city a joint project between the Musqueam Indian Band the Museum of Vancouver and the Museum of Anthropology In 1957 the public library which shared the Carnegie building with the museum moved to a new dedicated building in Burrard Street tripling the available storage and display space for the museum and in 1959 the museum was incorporated into the City Council and became a city department under the control of a Civic Museum Board A report was commissioned on the future of the museum the Heinrich Report of 1965 and this recommended the building of a new museum on the south shore of False Creek near the Burrard Bridge Federal and provincial money was made available for the 1967 Confederation Centennial celebrations and the current building was constructed which opened to the public in October 1968 From the opening of the new museum building to 1981 the museum was branded as Centennial Museum before reverting its name back to Vancouver Museum In 1972 the city council relinquished its control of the museum and a joint Museum and Planetarium Association was formed as a descendant of the original AHSA which founded the museum In 1977 the museum was designated a Category A cultural institution by the federal government and named in the Cultural Property Export and Import Act In 2009 the museum was re branded as the Museum of Vancouver in an attempt to reflect its changed focus to Vancouver rather than the lower mainland region of British Columbia as originally set out in its objectives and reaffirmed in 1977 4 Building edit nbsp The Museum of Vancouver as seen from Vanier Park The museum is situated at the southern portion of the park The building is located at 1100 Chestnut Street in Vanier Park in the neighbourhood of Kitsilano in Vancouver BC The museum is situated at the south end of Vanier Park with the park acting as a connecting greenspace between the Vancouver Maritime Museum Bard on the Beach the Vancouver Archives and the Vancouver Academy of Music The building was constructed in 1967 to a design by the architect Gerald Hamilton who had studied at Leeds University before moving to Vancouver in 1950 Hamilton was a practitioner of the New Formalism school of architecture and its most visible proponent in Vancouver at the time Originally the building was planned to only house a museum but a generous gift by the lumber magnate H R MacMillan allowed the architect to incorporate a planetarium into the design The distinctive roof was added as a pre construction modification designed to reflect the shape of a woven basket hat made by Northwest Coast First Nations people but because the roof also resembles a flying saucer there has been ongoing confusion over the identity of the building with many people mistakenly assuming it houses only the planetarium when the majority of the building is occupied by the Museum of Vancouver The planetarium was renamed the H R MacMillan Space Centre in the late 1990s 2 The building was officially dedicated on May 20 1967 and the ceremony was attended by Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra who was the granddaughter of Queen Mary and King George V and also a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II Alex Bozikovic remarks that the building closesly resembles the John Nugent Studio designed by Saskatchewan architect Clifford Wiens built six years earlier 6 The building is considered iconic by Vancouverites and is one of the most immediately recognisable buildings in Vancouver 7 It was nicknamed the Taj Mahal on the creek when first built and is characterised by its sweeping conical shape and reflecting pools crossed by curved pedestrian bridges 8 Collection editThe museum has a large collection of objects which reflect to a large extent the interests of the donors and of the curators who made decisions on acquisitions over the years in a similar way to many museums that were established in this way The collection is nationally significant but much of it remains in storage due to a lack of exhibition space The collection includes the First Nations and Oriental artefacts that were collected by Mary Lipsett who established along with her husband the Lipsett Indian Museum which opened in a former aquarium in the PNE grounds in 1941 This collection was said to be the finest in Canada when reported on by the Vancouver Sun in 1948 and Mary Lipsett was well respected for her positive relationship with the First Nations and was honoured with the Kwawlewith name Ha wini po la o gua which means a matriarch to whom many come for good counsel 9 She donated the entire collection to the then Vancouver Museum and it remains in storage there Particular strengths in the MOV collection include 4 Ethnology edit One of the most significant Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations collections in Canada with assemblages such as Argillite carvings Small wooden carvings mini totem poles figures Monumental wooden sculptures totem poles house posts Baskets extensive including Nuu chah nuith and Coast Salish Objects carved by Charles Edenshaw including the Edenshaw Casket Glass slides painted by Frederick Alexcee Basket and bracelet collected by George Vancouver on his first voyage to the Pacific Northwest Selected masks boxes bowls canoes carvings regalia Pauline Johnson s performance costume Human seated figure bowls and other anthropomorphic or zoomorphic carvings in stone Asian antiquities edit These include collections such as Chinese art objects dating from the Shang dynasty 16th 11th century BCE to the Qing dynasty 1644 1911 including a comprehensive ceramics collection from the Han dynasty 206 BCE 220 CE to the Qing dynasty 1644 1911 a comprehensive coin collection ivory carvings jade carvings lacquer objects snuff bottles textiles and armour largely form the Qing dynasty 1644 1911 Japanese objects dating from the Muromachi period 1392 1572 to the Meiji period 1868 1912 including woodblock prints ceramics ivory carvings textiles armour swords sword accessories Buddhist and Shinto objects and dolls 20th century The sword guard collection of over 400 items is the finest public collection in Canada Indian Nepalese and Tibetan stone wood and bronze sculpture textiles and paintings from the 16th to 20th century Thai bronze Buddhist statues Buddhist scriptures textiles and ceramics dating from the 12th to the 20th century Vietnamese and Cambodian ceramics Egyptian antiquities edit These include Ancient Egyptian collection especially mummified boy previously nicknamed Diana discovered one mile from the Valley of the Kings near Luxor in 1915 The mummy wrappings are inscribed Penechates son of Hatres and it probably dates from the 1st to the 3rd century CE Mummified crocodiles hawk and cats Material excavated by Sir Flinders Petrie who was a member of the Vancouver Museum Board in 1934History of Vancouver edit These include objects such as Furnishings and memorabilia related to important individuals civic events functions and structures Edwardian household furnishings and accessories including an excellent collection of locally made stained glass Street furniture including signs street lamps mailboxes and building fragments from Vancouver Material related to Chinatown and the Chinese community especially the Yip Family Collection from the Wing Sang Building Tools equipment and furnishings related to Vancouver shops businesses and industries Women s clothing shoes and accessories worn and or made in Vancouver c 1870 1980 Toys dolls and children s clothing used in Vancouver c 1890 1980 Objects used in the communication of sounds and images in Vancouver c 1890 1970 Paintings by early Vancouver artists 1900s 1930s Objects related to major events Habitat 76 EXPO 86 1990 Gay Games 2010 Olympic Games Objects related to Rogers Sugar Refinery Uniforms accessories badges ephemera etc related to public transit from BCER to Translink An extensive collection of neon signsGalleries edit nbsp Neon Vancouver Ugly Vancouver is a permanent gallery that showcases former neon signs found in Vancouver from the 1950s to 1970sThe museum has a number of permanent galleries that cover the entire history of Vancouver in an experience which includes sound and film In addition to the historical permanent galleries permanent galleries at the Museum of Vancouver include 10 Neon Vancouver Ugly Vancouver 1900s 1920s History Gallery Gateway to the Pacific 1930s 1940s History Gallery Boom Bust and War 1950s History Gallery Vancouver in The Fifties 1960s 1970s History Gallery You Say You Want A Revolution While most of these galleries explore the history of Vancouver during its specified time period the Neon Vancouver gallery features a collection of neon signs that were used in Vancouver from the 1950s to 1970s 10 Along with its permanent galleries the Museum of Vancouver typically hosts a number of temporary exhibitions Three temporary exhibitions are presently held at the museum The c esnaʔem the city before the city exhibition was developed in partnership with the Musqueam Indian Band with plans to remain at the museum from January 2015 to January 2021 The second exhibition HAIDA NOW A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition opened at the museum in March 2018 and will continue to be held there until June 2021 11 The museum s most recent exhibition Acts of Resistance opened on February 5 2020 and runs until December 2020 12 References edit 2018 Annual Report PDF Museum of Vancouver 2019 p 10 Retrieved 3 August 2019 a b MOV Functioal Program Report July 2013 Aldrich Pears Our detailed History Museum of Vancouver online Archived 2011 08 26 at the Wayback Machine a b c d e f g Cabinets of Curiosities Collections of the Vancouver Museum 1894 1981 Vancouver Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association 1981 ISBN 0 919253 06 7 Trumpeter swan specimen Museum of Vancouver www museumofvancouver ca Retrieved 2017 01 23 Bozikovic Alex 23 February 2020 Brilliant Saskatchewan architect Clifford Wiens created poetic structures The Globe and Mail Retrieved 25 February 2020 Vancouver Icons Planetarium Building 24 May 2012 Heritage Vancouver Newsletter September 2001 PDF This week in history 1948 an extraordinary collection a b Current Exhibitions amp History Galleries Museum of Vancouver 2018 Retrieved 21 August 2018 Haida Now Acts of Resistance MOV Museum of Vancouver Retrieved 2020 02 12 External links editOfficial website 49 16 34 N 123 08 38 W 49 27611 N 123 14389 W 49 27611 123 14389 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w 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