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Art of Craft at MOV January 14 – April 11, 2010

Posted in events, family, museum, things to do, tagged , , , on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Presented in conjunction with the 2010 Cultural Olympiad, the Museum of Vancouver’s (MOV) newest exhibit, Art of Craft, showcases 173 spectacular fine craft works from Canada and the Republic of Korea.
The stunning exhibit celebrates the “exuberance, inventiveness and refinement of fine craft” with a wide variety of works, ranging from delicate, embroidered tissues [...]

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MOV Goes Psycho October 30, 2009

Posted in entertainment, events, things to do, tagged , , , , on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

MOV (Museum of Vancouver) has created the perfect Halloween social for adults this Friday, October 30: MOV Goes Psycho, an evening of drinks (there’s a cash bar), music (live DJ), tours of their latest, eerie exhibition, Ravishing Beasts, and a screening of Hitchcock’s masterpiece of horror cinema, Psycho.
Pairing Psycho with Ravishing Beasts—MOV’s exploration of taxidermy—is [...]

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Ravishing Beasts at MOV – The Strangely Alluring World of Taxidermy

Posted in events, family, things to do, tagged , , on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

“Strangely alluring” is the way MOV (Museum of Vancouver) describes its latest, provocative exhibit, Ravishing Beasts, an investigation into taxidermy that displays—for the first time in decades—the museum’s extensive taxidermy collection.
(Don’t worry: No animals were harmed to create the exhibit. Most of the pieces were donated to MOV by Vancouver residents between 1894 – 1950.)
It’s [...]

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Hipster Vancouver at the Museum of Vancouver

Posted in videos, tagged , on August 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I recently met up with a group of Vancouverites who are working on a series of short videos showcasing some if the fun things to do in Vancouver. They operate under the name Hipster Vancouver, and describe themselves as “a bunch of hipsters not afraid to be called hipster. We are skinny jean wearing, Pabst [...]

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Vancouver Museum Reinvents Itself as the Museum of Vancouver

Posted in things to do, tagged on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In case you haven’t heard, the Vancouver Museum–which shares the iconic domed building in Vanier Park (featured in countless postcards) with the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre –is reinventing itself. The museum, a Vancouver institution since the early 1900s, has re-named itself Museum of Vancouver as part of a wider revitalization program to attract new visitors [...]

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