29 Replies to “Museums Shouldn’t Show History”

    1. As it’s said “Go Woke, Go Broke”.

      Wonder what the tourist and local revenue loss will be. Not really, but there will be a loss followed by plenty of whining and some layoffs.

  4. Typical leftist imbecility. Let’s tear all the things down. Never mind they don’t understand why the things exist in the first place, let alone what should replace them. Progressivism is all about parasitism and destruction, not creation. At this point, if leftists catch the coof and croak from it, the planet would become a better place.

    1. Islam does the same thing, like blowing up ancient Buddhist statues in Afghanistan or archaeological wonders in Egypt.

      Totalitarians are all alike at the end of the day.

  5. There’s been plenty of vocal opposition to changing this display. It is the most popular display by far in the museum, though I haven’t been there in MANY years, due to the ridiculous price of admission.
    The museum has always had a large and detailed display of native history as well, so removing Old Towne, shaped after Barkerville, has no impact on native displays.
    Letter writers from abroad, tourists, have written to the papers, expressing their dismay, and how that exhibit was the highlight of the museum visit.
    Trust the NDP and their wokeness to destroy what works, and replace it with……well, they haven’t figured that out yet, but they want this destroyed at any cost! Idiots.

  6. There are still some great museums in small towns and cities throughout BC, which have not been taken over by woke propagandists. Check out the museum in Rossland for instance, with great exhibits on local mining history. Or the cool logging museum in Prince George. The “official” BC museum in Victoria is an overpriced waste of time, and now it will just be the Museum of Leftie White Guilt.

  7. The story also repeats the lie that children’s graves were found at BC schools. They found nothing but a cemetery that existed long before the school was there and no exhumation has been done despite promises to do so by July.

    Journalists create fake history and now the museums erase real history.

    1. I noticed that. Also laughed out loud at the First Nations “consultant” who said all they wanted was “their names spelled correctly”.

      Oh, yeah. In that writing system your neolithic people never got around to inventing.

  8. You don’t need a museum to showcase all of the indians inventions and accomplishments. Just go to any bar near a reservation.

    1. Or any Chinatown LCBO.

      On another note there was an article recently with the term, paraphrased “Any idiot can use a hammer to destroy something good”.
      Does anyone recall it’s title?

  9. Well, I have to admit one of the coolest museums I have ever been in, is the Eskimo … er … Elk? museum in Churchill, Manitoba.

  10. So I guess the museum will have display of rusted out cars, feral dogs, and scattered liquor bottles.

  14. Since the museum itself was built by white men, it has to be torn down and the vastly overpaid employees can go on Justin’s perpetual free money train. A drug house can be built for the drug addicted mental cases, and everyone in Victoria can live happily ever after in their own filth and degradation.

  16. Does this mean that Butchart Gardens is scheduled to be bulldozed so as to appease the “wokesters” ???

  17. What colonization? Show me the evidence that there was ever colonization.
    What’s that you say? Your dog ate it? Yeah, right.

  18. we shouldn’t allow the white man’s museum to be built on the bones of the previous indigenous museum that was previously there, and no non-indigenous person should ever be employed at an indigenous museum, because that would be racist…

  19. We used to call it conquest but colonization makes it sound as if it’s more reversible which is fitting with the expectations created by the SCOC and promoted by the rest of the Indian Industry. What torments the progressives is the notion that they would love nothing better than to deem all of the deranged dominion as Indian land but that would leave the 94% (and growing from mass immigration) short of the requisite 1/16 Indian racial purity resulting in them being displaced persons and more importantly, without any form of beloved government as worshipped by them. Progressives love their pet Indians (from a distance) but they love the state more and so do dependent Indians, thus the mushy quasi legal mire of Indian affairs will remain without closure or “reconciliation” for the foreseeable future. Certainty is the bane of the legal “profession”.

  20. I work in museums in BC, and this isn’t quite as it’s being portrayed. The displays they’re removing were tired in the 1990s, but the cost of replacing them is pretty astronomical. The museum board is simply using the concerns of the day (decolonization / reconciliation) as a tactic to squeeze some funding out of the province/feds.

    Major museums are also pretty terrified about having to give their First Nations collections “back,” despite having legally acquired that vast majority of them. Losing them would leave major holes in their displays –and if they don’t have FN material, the museum would lack legitimacy for a really large part of our history….which then hurts the potential for government funding. It’s just a game.

  21. Their museum looks surprisingly similar to Winnipeg’s Museum of Man & Nature. Or whatever they call it now.

  22. I propose following exhibits as replacements:
    1. A scalping exhibit.
    2. A cannibalism exhibit.
    3. A “We don’t need no stinkin wheel” transportation exhibit.
    4. “From Tipi to Longhouse” the architectural achievement exhibit.
    5. Pilling flat stones on one another, art exhibit.
    6. Hitting logs with sticks, musical exhibit.

    We owe them so much.

  23. You could add:
    7. The inter-tribal genocide exhibit.
    8. The Slave taking and keeping exhibit.
    9. The Haida tradition of tossing a live slave into a pit used to raise totem poles (on the slaves) before backfilling – to free his soul – exhibit.
    10. The evil British colonizers who put an end to 1,2,7,8, and 9 exhibit.

    1. In recent history section:
      11. A traditional gasoline sniffing exhibit.
      12. A thirty year old grandma fertility exhibit.

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