Current Hours: Thursday - Sunday 10am - 4pm
Admission can only be purchased online for a specific entrance time. MOV members must also reserve in advance.
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https://museumofvancouver.ca/mov-reopening THIS MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER EXHIBITION ASKS:
Whose home is the City of Vancouver?
How have newcomers claimed Vancouver as their own?
How do the Musqueam understand their lengthy connection to this place?
Generations of families have lived at cəsnaʔəm and other areas in the...
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Current Hours: Thursday - Sunday 10am - 4pm
Admission can only be purchased online for a specific entrance time. MOV members must also reserve in advance.
Safety meaures:
https://museumofvancouver.ca/mov-reopening
THIS MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER EXHIBITION ASKS:
Whose home is the City of Vancouver?
How have newcomers claimed Vancouver as their own?
How do the Musqueam understand their lengthy connection to this place?
Generations of families have lived at c̓əsnaʔəm and other areas in the territory for thousands of years. The exhibition evokes this concept of home through design components that reference a Coast Salish longhouse: a site of residence as well as of political, economic, and ceremonial activities.
For the Musqueam, home is much more than a physical space; it is what connects individuals to a much broader web of family relationships and territory.
Oral traditions and Indigenous languages are a central vehicle of cultural expression and identity and play an important role in the exhibition.
Through the voices of the Musqueam First Nation, c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city shares deeply-rooted community knowledge of Musqueam’s living culture and ongoing relationship with their ancestral and unceded territory now known as metro Vancouver.