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WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
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DINOSAURS: ANCIENT FOSSILS, NEW DISCOVERIES
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Robotic Tyrannosaurus rex
A six-foot-long mechanical T. rex skeleton walks in place in the exhibition Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries.
Photographer: Craig Chesek
© American Museum of Natural History
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Beipiaosaurus
This model of a Beipiaosaurus, a carnivorous theropod covered with protofeathers—precursors to the feathers found on living birds—is featured in the exhibition Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries.
Photographer: Roderick Mickens
© American Museum of Natural History
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Liaoning Forest diorama
The Liaoning Forest diorama is a major highlight of the exhibition Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries. This enormous evocative diorama—the most detailed re-creation of a prehistoric environment ever constructed—depicts the rich diversity of animals living in a Mesozoic forest in China.
Photographer: Roderick Mickens
© American Museum of Natural History
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Ceratopsian skulls overview
A wall of casts of ceratopsian dinosaur skulls is part of the exhibition Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries. This area addresses the purposes of the unusual horns, frills, crests, and domes found on many dinosaur skulls.
Photographer: Roderick Mickens
© American Museum of Natural History
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II BY CECIL BEATON: A DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATION
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Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret
Buckingham Palace, October 1942, by Cecil Beaton
Gelatin silver print
179mm x 142mm
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© V&A Images
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Queen Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace, 2 June 1953, by Cecil Beaton
C-type colour print
510mm x 410mm
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© V&A Images
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Princess Elizabeth and Prince Charles
Clarence House, September 1950, by Cecil Beaton
Gelatin silver print
190mm x 194mm
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© V&A Images
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ROYAL BC MUSEUM AT WING SANG
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File Name: Wing Sang Facade
Credit: Photo: Martin Tessler
Wing Sang building at 51 East Pender, Vancouver, built in 1889.
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File Name: Jackson in Wing Sang
Credit: Richard Jackson, Pump Pee Doo, 2004-05. Fibreglass, pumps, buckets, acrylic paint
Photo credit: Site Photography, Vancouver
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File Name: Skidigate
Credit: © Royal BC Museum, BC Archives. Emily Carr, Skidigate (sic) Queen Charlotte Islands, 1912. Oil on canvas. pdp583.
Painted in 1912 following Carr’s first trip to Skidegate, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands)and demonstrates her new painting style after exposure to post impressionists and other artists in France.
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File Name: Yan
Credit: © Royal BC Museum, BC Archives. Emily Carr, Yan, Queen Charlotte Islands, 1912. Oil on canvas. pdp2146.
Carr was in the islands especially to paint the poles and villages. She was on a quest to document what she believed to be a dying culture, so she arranged travel to abandoned villages like Yan, to paint. (Skidegate was not abandoned). She painted in watercolours and sketched in pencil in the field and then came back to Vancouver and worked up oil paintings like these in her studio. These are two of the seven works purchased by the BC Government from Carr's estate in 1945. The frames were designed by Lawren Harris, member of the Group of Seven and one of Carr's executors.
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Filename: Cape and Tam
Credit: © Royal BC Museum, BC Archives. Emily Carr wearing cape and tam, ca 1899-1902. I-60891.
Emily Carr wearing Cape and Tam. A young Emily Carr posing for the camera.
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File Name: Sombreness Sunlit
Credit: © Royal BC Museum, BC Archives. Emily Carr, Sombreness Sunlit, 1938-1940. Oil on canvas. pdp633.
This is one of Carr’s classic masterpieces. She captured the movement of sunlight and juxtaposition of shadow within the deep forest of the West Coast.
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NATURAL HISTORY GALLERY
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File Name: Mammoth
Credit: Photo © Russ Heinl, Mammoth, Natural History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
Herds of Woolly Mammoths roamed ice-free areas of northern North America, Europe and Asia about 25,000 to 12,000 years ago.
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File Name: Mammoth Front
Credit: Mammoth, Natural History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
Mammoths were probably common in parts of BC, but became extinct as the climate warmed and as they fell prey to human hunters. |
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File Name: Bear
Credit: Photo © Russ Heinl, Grizzly Bear, Natural History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
In the Natural History Gallery, a Grizzly Bear, BC’s largest land predator, hunts for food in a forest stream. Normally a solitary animal, these bears congregate alongside streams and rivers during the salmon spawn.
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File Name: Bird
Credit: Varied Thrush, Natural History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
The Varied Thrush, seen here in the Natural History Gallery’s Forest Diorama, loves shady, cool and damp woodland areas. This bird can be found all throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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File Name: Sea Lions
Credit: Photo © Russ Heinl, Northern Sea Lions, Natural History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
Northern Sea Lions are the largest of the eared seals – a type of seal with visible ears. Males can grow up to four metres (13 feet) long and weigh over 1,000 kilograms (2,205 lbs).
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File Name: Ocean Station
Credit: Ocean Station, Natural History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
Ocean Station is an interactive showcase of British Columbia’s rich coastal marine life. Visitors can peer through portholes at kelp beds, watch live animals in the central, 360-litre (95-gallon) aquarium and check out underwater vistas via a moveable periscope.
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File Name: Ocean Station Seawall
Credit: Ocean Station, Natural History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
See BC’s coastal marine life via Ocean Station – a Victorian-era “submarine” exhibition. The centrepiece of the gallery is a giant hexagonal hatch, offering a window onto an underwater seawall – a diorama populated by sea stars, fishes, anemones, sea cucumbers and other creatures of the deep.
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MODERN HISTORY GALLERY
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File Name: Old Town
Credit: Old Town, Modern History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
Old Town is a recreation of a late 1800s street, lined with shops of the day, a grand hotel with furnished rooms, a functional movie theatre, a train station and an authentic Chinatown.
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File Name: Grand Hotel
Credit: Grand Hotel, Old Town, Modern History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
A highlight of Old Town is the Grand Hotel. Furnished in a late 1800s style, you may – just for a moment – think you’re actually there.
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File Name: Chinatown
Credit: Chinatown, Old Town, Modern History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
The Chinese Herbs and Tailoring Shop in Old Town’s Chinatown boasts an assortment of authentic wares. Chinese medicine emphasized prevention – balancing two vital forces (ying and yang, or positive and negative) and the five interrelated elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water).
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File Name: Farm
Credit: Farm, Modern History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
This Tremblay Homestead diorama depicts the harshness of pioneer farming in the Peace River District during the early 1900s.
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File Name: Water Wheel
Credit: Cornish Water Wheel, Modern History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
This Cornish Water Wheel, built in Barkerville in 1862, was once used in the gold mines of BC. Water wheels pumped water from deep shafts, provided power for tools and hoisted items, such as buckets and workers, to the mine’s surface.
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File Name: Discover Ship
Credit: Discover Ship, Modern History Gallery, Royal BC Museum
Visitors to the Royal BC Museum can explore a replica of the stern section of Captain Vancouver’s ship, HMS Discovery (1792 - 1794). Once carrying 10 men and armed with 10 four-pound cannons, the HMS Discovery measured 30 metres (99 feet) long and 8.5 metres (28 feet) wide.
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FIRST PEOPLES GALLERY
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File Name: Totem Gallery Panorama
Credit: Photo © Russ Heinl, Totem Gallery, First Peoples Gallery, Royal BC Museum
For countless generations, people have prospered in the land we know as British Columbia. The First Peoples Gallery gives visitors dramatic glimpses of First Nations culture before and after the arrival of Europeans.
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File Name: Masks
Credit: Kwakwaka’wakw Masks, First Peoples Gallery, Royal BC Museum
These Kwakwaka’wakw masks (Dance of the Animals) were once the hereditary property of Chief Mungo Martin. They are displayed in The Cave of Supernatural Powers where, long ago, animals in human form held Winter Ceremonies.
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File Name: Totem Gallery
Credit: Totem Gallery, First Peoples Gallery, Royal BC Museum
The Royal BC Museum has a large collection of monumental carvings, including historical and contemporary totem poles. The ones seen here are from many different coastal areas, illustrating a variety of First Nations carving styles and traditions.
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File Name: Canoe
Credit: Canoe, First Peoples Gallery, Royal BC Museum
Canoes are an important element of culture, intertribal relationship, resource gathering and trade. This one was used in the 19th century by a Coast Salish (Songhees) chief to travel in the Victoria area.
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File Name: First Peoples Gallery
Credit: First Peoples Gallery, Royal BC Museum
Here, Haida artist Bill Reid describes the effects of the devastating smallpox epidemic of 1862 in a moving tribute that speaks to the strength of First Nations people and their culture.
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File Name: Museum Lobby
Credit: Totem Poles, Museum Lobby, Royal BC Museum
These totem poles from the Kwakwaka’wakw village of Dzawadi (left), the Haida village of Tanu (middle) and the Gitxsan village of Gitanyow (right) stand in the main lobby of the Royal BC Museum.
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File Name: Grizzly Bear Mantelpiece
Credit: Grizzly Bear Mantelpiece, First Peoples Gallery, Royal BC Museum
Grizzly Bear Mantelpiece is an important monumental work from the beginning of Bill Reid’s career as a Haida artist. Carved in red cedar in 1954, it is an early version of a design that Reid returned to frequently in his later work.
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CULTURAL PRECINCT AND MUSEUM EXTERIOR
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File Name: Helmcken House
Credit: Helmcken House, Royal BC Museum
Built in 1852 by Dr. John Sebastian Helmcken, a surgeon with the Hudson’s Bay Company, historic Helmcken House is one of the oldest homes in BC still on its original site.
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File Name: Dining Room
Credit: Helmcken House Dining Room, Royal BC Museum
The interior of Helmcken House is similar to what a visitor might have experienced in 1852 when the house was built.
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File Name: Helmcken Statue
Credit: Statue of John Sebastian Helmcken, Royal BC Museum
A statue of John Sebastian Helmcken being fitted to a base, Helmcken was a British Columbia physician who played a prominent role in bringing the province into Canadian Confederation. The statue was unveiled May, 2011.
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File Name: St. Ann’s Schoolhouse
Credit: St. Ann’s Schoolhouse, Royal BC Museum
Built in 1844 and possibly the oldest building still standing in Victoria, St. Ann’s Schoolhouse was purchased by Roman Catholic Bishop Demers in 1853 for use as a residence and schoolhouse. In 1858, after four Sisters of St. Ann came to BC from Quebec, it was in this building the Sisters lived and held their first classes.
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File Name: Carillon
Credit: Netherlands Centennial Carillon, Royal BC Museum
The Netherlands Centennial Carillon was a gift from British Columbia’s Dutch community to honour Canada’s 100th birthday in 1967. Measuring 27 metres (90 feet) tall, this carillon tower is the largest in Canada.
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File Name: Mungo Martin House
Credit: Mungo Martin House, Royal BC Museum
Constructed in 1953, Mungo Martin House is a traditional big house built by Chief Mungo Martin, a Kwakwaka’wakw carver considered to be the finest of his day. The house is still used today for First Nations events, with the permission of Chief Peter Knox, Martin’s grandson.
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File Name: Thunderbird Park
Credit: Photo © Russ Heinl, Thunderbird Park, Royal BC Museum
Thunderbird Park was set up in 1941 to display monumental poles, welcome figures and other First Nations carvings. In 1951, Chief Mungo Martin was hired to begin a program of restoration and replication – a program that played a major role in the survival and transmission of Northwest Coast art traditions.
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File Name: Museum Exterior
Credit: Museum Exterior, Royal BC Museum
As the provincial museum and archives, the Royal BC Museum preserves and shares the stories of British Columbia – on-site, off-site and online – through its research, collections, exhibitions and educational programs. Its two-hectare cultural precinct also includes a number of historically significant buildings and First Nations sites.
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File Name: BC Archives
Credit: BC Archives, Royal BC Museum
The BC Archives was founded in 1894 to house government records (dating back to 1849), manuscripts, maps, photographs, paintings, audio recordings and film.
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ZONING
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File Name: Aerial View
Credit: Royal BC Museum
Aerial view of the current Royal BC Museum site, adjacent to the Legislative Buildings and the Fairmont Empress Hotel, at the intersection of Belleville and Government Streets.
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File Name: Aerial View with IMAX
Credit: Royal BC Museum
Aerial view of the current Royal BC Museum site at intersection of Belleville and Government Streets.
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File Name: Cramped Storage
Credit: Royal BC Museum
Pictured here is part of the Royal BC Museum audiovisual equipment collection. Storage space at the museum is cramped – acquisitions are outpacing available storage space.
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File Name: Royal BC Museum Precinct
Credit: Royal BC Museum
The existing site boundary for the Royal BC Museum is zoned R-2, Two Family Dwelling.
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File Name: Royal BC Museum Precinct R-1
Credit: Royal BC Museum
This is the proposed Royal BC Museum zone boundary – the approved zone will be determined through a formal zoning application process.
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File Name: New Plan R-1
Credit: Royal BC Museum
Proposed massing within the proposed zone boundary. The approved zone will be determined through a formal zoning application process.
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File Name: Architectural Model A
Credit: Royal BC Museum
Architectural model showing proposed building massing as seen from the corner of Belleville and Government Streets.
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File Name: Architectural Model B
Credit: Royal BC Museum
Architectural model showing proposed building massing as seen from the corner of Belleville and Douglas Streets.
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File Name: Panoramic View
Credit: Royal BC Museum
The Royal BC Museum is one of the foremost cultural institutions in the world. Since 1886, British Columbia's provincial museum has been collecting artifacts, documents and specimens of the province's natural and human history, safeguarding them for the future and sharing them with the world.
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