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Everything is Still Awesome will knock you off your block
March 19, 2024By: Amrit Kamaal, Peak Associate Looking to travel back to the good old days of childhood play? Look no further than the Museum of Surrey’s exhibit for fellow LEGO fans. The Cloverdale museum presents Everything is Still Awesome as a tribute to the 20-year anniversary of the Vancouver LEGO Club, a community for adult fans of LEGO. The nostalgic exhibit is like a trip down memory lane, with recreations and photos from previous exhibits. As someone who spent their childhood building and combining every LEGO set, it was fascinating to dissect each individual scene. Each of the three themes, which…
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MONOVA is the little gem of North Vancouver
September 6, 2023By: Maia Lomelino (She/They), SFU Student Content warning: mentions of residential schools and internment camps. It’s not new that the Shipyards region in North Vancouver is becoming a hotspot for entertainment on the North Shore. With easy access from the…
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The Chinese Canadian Museum receives $5.18 million from Government of Canada
June 13, 2023By: Eden Chipperfield, News Writer The Chinese Canadian Museum, located in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown in the Wing Sang building, has received $5,179,000 from the Government of Canada. The funding will support the museum’s space renewal at its permanent location. The…
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Potlatches live on in Keeping the Song Alive
November 2, 2022By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Potlatch, which comes from the Nootka word meaning “gift,” is a traditional Indigenous ceremony during which tribes give away or destroy possessions to promote generosity, wealth, and prestige. For the Kwakwaka’wakw people, singing,…
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Is Victoria haunted? A paranormal look at Point Ellice House
March 3, 2021By: Emma Jean, Staff Writer When it comes to the paranormal, X-File like behaviour, I tend to be more of a Scully than a Mulder, and not just because I also can’t settle on a shade of red hair dye.…
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Antwerp’s Mode Museum is highly regarded but translates poorly to 2D
May 25, 2020By: Rebeka Roga, SFU Student Growing up, I always dreamt of being a fashion designer or an artist, so for years I’d been wanting to visit the Mode Museum (MoMu), the fashion museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Out of many fashion…
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SFU museum returns Indigenous artifacts to the north
June 26, 2017A collection of Indigenous artifacts from the museum at Simon Fraser University was officially repatriated to its home communities at a ceremony on National Aboriginal Day last week. The Tse’K’wa artifacts are part of the Donaldson collection held by the…
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Harry Potter exhibit open to SFU muggles
November 10, 2014The SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology recently unveiled SFUwarts, an exhibit based on the fantastical wizarding world of Harry Potter, which contains a wide array of magical creatures and Hogwarts essentials for visitors to peruse. Melanie Hart, a collections…
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