[BCMA] Museums, Libraries and Youth

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The Alberta Museums used to have a program of Traveling Exhibits that 
acted to rotate small sized exhibits from town to town for display in 
public libraries and small museums.   It was a stable program and more 
regularly organized than BC's Royal BC Museum's traveling exhibit 
program.    Regular circulation among the participating places was 
accomplished by a staff member with a truck which proceeded to transfer 
the exhibits from place to place on the circuit.   It was a brilliant 
use of resources.   Any of the small exhibits created were not shown 
once, but many times to many audiences.    I believe there were standard 
sized cases in most of the places, so the exhibits were universally easy 
to display.   New exhibits were continually created and added for 
circulation.   With small exhibits, the program costs were very 
economical considering the large number of people who saw the finished 
displays in the prominent public places.

That could be a good project for the BC Museums Association. There is 
much local talent spread throughout our local museums.  A project of 
shared displays could be organized provincially and produced locally to 
a standard display space format for circulation in the program.    Local 
artefacts could also be added to enhance any display to provide local 
context to the many cultural stories shared in common.

 From my own experience as a Traveling Curator for the Vancouver Art 
Gallery, which once had such a program of external exhibits in rotation 
at local galleries and schools throughout BC, I discovered that the role 
of the traveling attendant who curated the displays and presented public 
programs associated with them was greatly enhanced through also becoming 
a transmitter of messages and concepts from place to place within the BC 
museum community at large.

Cuyler Page

Heritage Interpretation Services

Vernon, BC   (250) 309-9248

cuyler at telus.net


On 2025-02-04 3:55 p.m., Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Looking for examples of collaborative relationships between museums 
> and libraries - specially youth programming but open to any examples.
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> Thanks so much!
> Lorenda
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> Lorenda Calvert
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