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

[imdrunk.livejournal.com]

I wish I had known you were going to be here. I wouldn't have minded catching up with Vancouver peeps! I have been living in Victoria for the last 6 months so its pretty funny to read peoples comments about this town.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

We wouldn't have had time. We got in to town just in time to walk from the parkade to the Museum. After we went straight back to the car and drove up to Duncan for dinner with my mom and then barely made it to the last ferry from Duke Point.

We'll probably head back some other time to just hang out in Victoria for a while.

Have you joined the gothvic mailing list? There is a link on the homepage of Gothic BC. It's a good list, a lot like van-goth was in the very early days before it got out of control. And if you have a camera, take some pictures of Prophecy for me! I've been trying to get somebody to upload some non-Vancouver event shots for ages to no avail.