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September 2024
Broken Promises
The Bulkley Valley Museum is pleased to present the traveling exhibition Broken Promises on loan from the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre. Grounded in research from Landscapes of Injustice – a 7 year multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, community engaged project, this exhibit explores the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. It illuminates the loss of home and the struggle for justice of one racially marginalized community. The story unfolds by following seven narrators. Learn about life for Japanese Canadians in…
Find out more »February 2025
100 Years of the Central Park Building
2025 marks the 100th anniversary of one of Smithers' oldest and most iconic buildings, the Central Park Building. Originally constructed in 1925 as a provincial government building and courthouse, the building was saved from demolition several times in the 1970s-1980s, and has been a vibrant hub for arts and culture in our community for 50 years. This exhibit explores the unique history of this building, the community-based campaign to save it from destruction. Join us on June 14th 2025 for…
Find out more »August 2025
Hope Meets Action: Echoes Through the Black Continuum
The Bulkley Valley Museum is pleased to present "Hope Meets Action", a travelling exhibit created by the BC Black History Awareness Society in partnership with the Royal BC Museum. The exhibit reclaims and retells the complicated history of Black British Columbians, and traces an unbroken line of strength and resistance from the distant past to the present and into the future by highlighting the contributions of Black leaders whose actions echo across the centuries.
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