Hey everyone! I hope you enjoy this video, I had a lot of fun making this vlog style content and I hope I can do more museums soon! If you enjoy my videos (or my reels if you are here from instagram) and you want to support a small time creator, I have recently created a Ko-fi account: ko-fi.com/professorpeachez All tips go back into the channel: I am hoping to save up for a new camera as well as some nice soft lights that can help to improve the overall quality of my videos. Regardless of if you tip or just like this video or subscribe I appreciate your support :)
The best way I've heard the new RAM human history gallery described is 'an airplane hanger with stuff in it'. Each time I go I find myself ranting about a different part of the exhibition design/curatorial choices. Ms. Jimmy's insights about the lack of quality Indigenous engagement will def join my arsenal
Thanks very much for the tour & discussion! I am planning to visit Canada (from Upstate New York) to visit family in Ottawa in September & plan to revisit the Museum of Civilisation in Hull, Quebec when we're there. It's always been a favourite museum & I'm looking forward to going back, particularly now that I've been made aware of colonisation issues. For me, wheelchair access is also an issue, so I'm also hoping this will be okay (we will investigate online before we go, of course). I would love if you would mention wheelchair access in your museum tour videos, as it would be very helpful to me & other wheelchair users!
I will keep that in mind and take note of physical accessibility in museums I visit in the future! Thanks for your lovely comment and I hope you have a wonderful trip!
Oh dear, we have so much farther to go down this road. Thank you for including the viewpoint of a Native woman who is from the city. If the residential school 'experience' feels tacked on, then it was. The museum feels very much like it was patterned off of the old National Museum of Man (now split into the Canadian History Museum and the Nature Museum). One side was dinosaurs and nature. The other was the history of civilization as a 'whole'. They actually had a section that was a recreation of a dig of a village on the BC coast. Including the skeletons. And then they wonder why there are stories of that wing of the second floor being haunted. There were also a series of West Coast ceremonial masks that were sent back some time in the 80's - I still miss seeing them, but I'm also very glad they are back home where they belong. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Great video, thanks for sharing! Did you see any evidence of a decolonial approach in the natural history galleries? It's a movement that is gaining momentum in UK natural history museums and I was wondering what the situation is in Canada
We Albertans are blessed with excellent museums. It is too bad you didn't visit this museum in it's previous home as a comparison. I have not yet visited the new location as I no longer live in Edmonton. The Glenbow in Calgary is another facility you should go see. I believe both these museums should make efforts to continue decolonization of their human history exhibits.
So enjoyed your video! Very thought provoking. I like that you included Miranda Jimmie's viewpoint. I fear that it's going to take a long time for museums to tackle decolonization by including 'other' voices and insights. Museum fatigue? If you are subject this, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Decolonization is a long and slow process, but many museum professionals are working hard to being about change. I am also definitely not immune to the museum fatigue haha.
Hey everyone! I hope you enjoy this video, I had a lot of fun making this vlog style content and I hope I can do more museums soon! If you enjoy my videos (or my reels if you are here from instagram) and you want to support a small time creator, I have recently created a Ko-fi account:
ko-fi.com/professorpeachez
All tips go back into the channel: I am hoping to save up for a new camera as well as some nice soft lights that can help to improve the overall quality of my videos. Regardless of if you tip or just like this video or subscribe I appreciate your support :)
Thank you for the shout-out to my blog post. I'm hoping to make it to the BC Museums Conference this fall so perhaps we could catch up IRL.
I would love that! I am still not sure if I will be attending or not but I will try my darndest
The best way I've heard the new RAM human history gallery described is 'an airplane hanger with stuff in it'. Each time I go I find myself ranting about a different part of the exhibition design/curatorial choices. Ms. Jimmy's insights about the lack of quality Indigenous engagement will def join my arsenal
Thanks very much for the tour & discussion! I am planning to visit Canada (from Upstate New York) to visit family in Ottawa in September & plan to revisit the Museum of Civilisation in Hull, Quebec when we're there. It's always been a favourite museum & I'm looking forward to going back, particularly now that I've been made aware of colonisation issues. For me, wheelchair access is also an issue, so I'm also hoping this will be okay (we will investigate online before we go, of course). I would love if you would mention wheelchair access in your museum tour videos, as it would be very helpful to me & other wheelchair users!
I will keep that in mind and take note of physical accessibility in museums I visit in the future! Thanks for your lovely comment and I hope you have a wonderful trip!
@@professorpeachez Thank you so much!!!
Perfect time to come to Ottawa, September. The leaves will just be starting to turn.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Oh dear, we have so much farther to go down this road. Thank you for including the viewpoint of a Native woman who is from the city. If the residential school 'experience' feels tacked on, then it was.
The museum feels very much like it was patterned off of the old National Museum of Man (now split into the Canadian History Museum and the Nature Museum). One side was dinosaurs and nature. The other was the history of civilization as a 'whole'. They actually had a section that was a recreation of a dig of a village on the BC coast. Including the skeletons. And then they wonder why there are stories of that wing of the second floor being haunted. There were also a series of West Coast ceremonial masks that were sent back some time in the 80's - I still miss seeing them, but I'm also very glad they are back home where they belong.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Great video, thanks for sharing! Did you see any evidence of a decolonial approach in the natural history galleries? It's a movement that is gaining momentum in UK natural history museums and I was wondering what the situation is in Canada
We Albertans are blessed with excellent museums. It is too bad you didn't visit this museum in it's previous home as a comparison. I have not yet visited the new location as I no longer live in Edmonton. The Glenbow in Calgary is another facility you should go see. I believe both these museums should make efforts to continue decolonization of their human history exhibits.
So enjoyed your video! Very thought provoking. I like that you included Miranda Jimmie's viewpoint. I fear that it's going to take a long time for museums to tackle decolonization by including 'other' voices and insights.
Museum fatigue? If you are subject this, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Decolonization is a long and slow process, but many museum professionals are working hard to being about change.
I am also definitely not immune to the museum fatigue haha.