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Each Museum Sunday in February is love-themed, with crafts including keychains, valentines, and painted portraits. (The News file)

First Museum Sundays of 2023 set to start at Pitt Meadows Museum

All of the February crafts will be themed around love

 

The How Curious exhibit at the Maple Ridge Museum, which premiered in September, was one of the seven new temporary exhibits unveiled in 2022. (Maple Ridge Museum/Special to The News)

Maple Ridge Museum puts out call for 2023 members

The museum has several major goals planned for the new year

 

The holiday ornament-making sessions will take place at the Maple Ridge Museum on Saturday, Dec. 10, and will give participants a chance to make their very own decorations for their Christmas tree. (Black Press Media file)

Maple Ridge Museum offers ornament making sessions in time for holidays

The Dec. 10 event will show people how to make 3 ornaments for their Christmas Tree

 

Leslie Norman is the curator of the Pitt Meadows Museum and helped oversee the production of many of the new miniature models of the historical community buildings. (The News)

New scale models soon to be unveiled at Pitt Meadows Museum

Gary Dixon is constructing a 1/24 scale model of the Hoffmann and Son building

Leslie Norman is the curator of the Pitt Meadows Museum and helped oversee the production of many of the new miniature models of the historical community buildings. (The News)
Curator Leslie Norman said the The Old General Store (right) that serves as the Pitt Meadows museum may need to be moved across Harris Road to the same site as the Hoffman and Son Machine Shop. (The News)

Pitt Meadows Museum nears finish line of relocation planning

Museum expects final layout of new heritage site to be ready mid-winter

Curator Leslie Norman said the The Old General Store (right) that serves as the Pitt Meadows museum may need to be moved across Harris Road to the same site as the Hoffman and Son Machine Shop. (The News)
The <em>What Was Taken</em> exhibit for the Maple Ridge Museum was created with the help of the Yoshizawa family and the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre. (Maple Ridge Museum/Special to The News)

New Maple Ridge Museum exhibit explores horrific treatment of Japanese Canadians

This is the 80th anniversary of the internment of Japanese Canadians in World War II

The <em>What Was Taken</em> exhibit for the Maple Ridge Museum was created with the help of the Yoshizawa family and the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre. (Maple Ridge Museum/Special to The News)
A person poses for a photo in front a large replica of National Geographic’s Sept. 2010 magazine cover at the Beyond King Tut Immersive Experience, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, in New York. The exhibition will open to the public on Friday, in commemoration of the the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb on Nov. 4, 1922. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

King Tut and his treasures to come alive for a high-def age in Vancouver

B.C. among the stops planned for immersive digital display of the Egyptian boy king

A person poses for a photo in front a large replica of National Geographic’s Sept. 2010 magazine cover at the Beyond King Tut Immersive Experience, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, in New York. The exhibition will open to the public on Friday, in commemoration of the the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb on Nov. 4, 1922. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
Pitt Meadows Museum Halloween event, Museum After Dark, features spooky treats such as deep-charred rat, free range organic eyeballs, and tongues on sticks. (Pitt Meadows Museum/Special to The News)

Pitt Meadows Museum gets a spooky makeover

The Museum After Dark event takes place on Oct. 23, 26, 27, and 30

Pitt Meadows Museum Halloween event, Museum After Dark, features spooky treats such as deep-charred rat, free range organic eyeballs, and tongues on sticks. (Pitt Meadows Museum/Special to The News)
Museum assistant Keagan Nagy says that the number of take-home craft kits made for Museum Sundays varies, but they rarely run out of craft kits by closing on Sunday. (Pitt Meadows Museum/The News)

Spooky crafts available all month at Pitt Meadows Museum

Each Sunday will feature a different Halloween-themed take-home craft kit

Museum assistant Keagan Nagy says that the number of take-home craft kits made for Museum Sundays varies, but they rarely run out of craft kits by closing on Sunday. (Pitt Meadows Museum/The News)
Arts and culture community development coordinator, Tracee Jung, says that the last couple of Christmas at PMAG events had around 60 exhibitors. (City of Pitt Meadows/Special to The News)

Pitt Meadows Art Gallery opens application submissions for Christmas exhibit

Deadline for Christmas at PMAG 2022 applications is Oct. 9

Arts and culture community development coordinator, Tracee Jung, says that the last couple of Christmas at PMAG events had around 60 exhibitors. (City of Pitt Meadows/Special to The News)
Kalum Teke Dan is an Alberta-born painter who is one of the 16 Indigenous artists involved in the Cedar Sage & Sweergrass exhibit at the Pitt Meadows Art Gallery. (Kalum Teke Dan Facebook/Special to The News)

Brand new Indigenous artwork comes to the Pitt Meadows Art Gallery

The Cedar Sage and Sweetgrass exhibit is on display until Oct. 23

Kalum Teke Dan is an Alberta-born painter who is one of the 16 Indigenous artists involved in the Cedar Sage & Sweergrass exhibit at the Pitt Meadows Art Gallery. (Kalum Teke Dan Facebook/Special to The News)
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