June 28, 2024

Thanks to Ms. Kondo for these museum suggestions.

Some students may be interested in the planes at the Canadian Museum of Flighthttp://www.canadianflight.org/, which is located at the Langley Airport.

Vancouver’s Chinese Canadian Museum currently features an exhibition about the Head Tax imposed on Chinese Canadians in the early 1900s.

Fort Langley National Historic Site has an exhibition called Hope Meets Action: Echoes Through the Black Continuum. The exhibit “boldly reclaims the complex history of resilience and resistance. Discover the extraordinary contributions of Black leaders whose legacies resonate through the ages…” The exhibit runs until December 12^th.

The Maple Ridge Museum features an exhibit about the Japanese Canadians who, before being forcibly removed from their homes during World War II, made up roughly 1/3 of the town.

The Museum of Anthropology at UBC has been closed for awhile, but will reopen on June 13^th. It has a large collection of traditional items that showcase Northwest Coast Indigenous Cultures. They also currently have two exhibitions that share Indigenous perspectives about colonial history.

In addition to local history content, the Museum of Surrey has a new exhibit about creative teenagers and their inventions. The Indigenous Hall is currently home to the Witness Blanket, an art installation that is made hundreds of items from residential schools, Survivors, churches, governments, and other cultural sites across Canada. The museum is free to visit.

The Museum of Vancouver features lots of interesting information about local history. There is also currently an exhibit about tattooing in Indigenous cultures.

The Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) is NOT a museum but does have commemorative signs about how the buildings were used to house Japanese Canadians who were forcibly removed from their homes during World War II. If you are visiting the PNE this summer, I’d encourage you to look for these signs with your children.