Museum Pieces

[mbarrick]

Elaine and I went over to Victoria yesterday to see the "Eternal Egypt" display at the Royal Museum (great stuff, by the way - shame I couldn't take pictures in the exhibit). After going through the Egypt display I had to go look at the rest of the museum. When I lived in Victorian in 1985/86 the museum was still free and being broke I spent a lot of time in there. I wanted to see what had changed and what had stayed the same. The mammoth display is being reworked, but the rest of the roadkill in the natural history section is pretty much the same as it was twenty years ago. Same with the nautical history, mining history and native indian sections... except for the "first contact" slideshow that they used to have in the indian section is gone and their collection of carvings is a bit larger. The old turn-of-the-(last)-century streetscape is exactly the same (and I would love to have some of the artifacts for the apartment!) except there is this new "Century Hall" exhibit leading into the streetscape, where I was both amused and slightly horrified to see this:

A Commodore PET: the first computer I ever used

along side things like these:

A stereoscope viewer

A cylinder player

And just a few shots of Victoria

The provincial legislature as seen from the museum.

The Empress Hotel from the same window as above.

The cool deco visitor's centre town by the Inner Harbour that I've always liked (also posted to art_deco_style)

The old Goodwill building, supposedly haunted. Currently for sale. More about this one in a later post.

just of the hell of it.

Comments

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

so *that's* what victoria looks like with the sun shining! i've never seen it so. ;} drew and i were plotting our next trip out your way- we will probably fly into seattle, spend a day or two with my cousins there, then take the ferry to victoria and spend a couple days there before taking the ferry over to you, spend a few days and then take the train back down to seattle. of course, we have no idea *when* this trip will take place, but it's in the works. :}

[valerian.livejournal.com]

Too bad they got rid of the Freaks Of Nature exhibit at the museum... they must have done that in the mid to late '80's (I haven't been since then). Two headed cows, goats with a fifth leg growing out of their backs, siamese twin puppies and more, all stuffed and mounted and in formaldehyde jars on display... creepy stuff. It was a huge display, I wonder where it went.

ah... nostalgia...

That aside, it would be great to see you guys again!!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

It'd be fun to meet up in Victoria and play tourist in my old home.