BC Museums Association Podcast

It’s March 2026, welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Stories from March 2026:  Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw carvers restore century-old totem pole at Royal B.C. Museum | CBC News B.C. Sports Hall of Fame relocates hundreds...

It’s February 2026, welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. February 2026 Stories:  Find Just Desserts at Pitt Meadows Museum | Maple Ridge News Royal BC Museum faces mounting financial pressures Feasibility study...

It’s January 2026, welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond.   Stories from January 2026:  Museum of Personal Failure exhibition turns defeat into triumph in Vancouver | CBC News ‘This is who we are’: B.C. senior con...

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month, we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Stories from October 2025:  https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/578284/Dinosaurs-invading-Penticton-at-visiting-museum-exhibit https://www.cbc.ca/news/vatican-museums-in...

It’s September 2025, welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Summer Wrap-Up News Stories 2025:  Summer students integral to running of museum program | Northern News Summerland Museum hooks up fully functional tele...

Join our host Lorenda and SGaan Kwahagang James McGuire, Guest Scientist and Indigenous Fellow in Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History, and Jessica Strayer, NAGPRA/CalNAGPRA Administrative Manager at the Fowler Museum - UCLA, for this continued conversation on NAGPRA. This follow-up episode deepens the discussion by highlighting the voices of those directly engaged in repatriatio...

Join our host Lorenda and Jessica Strayer, NAGPRA/CalNAGPRA Administrative Manager at the Fowler Museum - UCLA, as they discuss the realities of working with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Explore how this legislation impacts museum practice and what it means for institutions committed to respectful collaboration with Indigenous communities. This conversation...

In this episode, Jazmin and Madison sit down to chat with friends and collaborators Veronica Buck and Marilyn Maychak.  Veronica and Marilyn share about their varied careers in education and arts and culture, as well as how they met, and a new podcast they're launching together soon. We also chat about the connections the two of them see between Inuk and Black cultures, and the ways they hope to s...

Join our host Madison and the creatives behind the CBC Gem docu-series Not Your Butter Chicken for a conversation about culture, community, food, and migration. This was originally recorded as a live podcast event over Zoom on June 2, 2025. During the recording, references are made to episodes from the doc-series as well as the trailer (links below).   About our guests: Shiva Reddy is a food and w...

Missed the recording live? No worries, you can still listen now! In this podcast, we discuss Nina’s work (and insights) on building brighter futures with her communities within the arts and heritage sector. Nina’s dedication to advancing heritage arts through belonging, adaptation and respectful representation of living cultures is carried through her multifaceted work and roles in the sector. Nin...

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month, we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. May 2025 Stories: As Hudson’s Bay bids farewell, Indigenous groups call for transparency in artifact auction New Lytton Chinese History Museum rises from the ashes - Bella C...

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. April 2025 Stories: German artillery from First World War piece found buried at the PNE | Vancouver Sun New Terry Fox exhibit to open in the Canadian hero's hometown Reach Ga...

Join our host Lorenda and Dr. Will Atlas, Salmon Watershed Scientist, for a conversation about SalmonVision. In partnership with Indigenous communities, SalmonVision harnesses the power of AI for salmon monitoring and conservation. Explore rivers, waterways, and an ethical side of AI.  Resources: SalmonVision Wild Salmon Center Pacific Salmon Foundation First Nations harness power of AI to monitor...

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. March Stories:   West Van purchases Horseshoe Bay's Boathouse restaurant for new art museum   Summerland museum shares history Irish settler who helped develop the irrigation...

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. February Stories: Nanaimo Art Gallery's new exhibit explores unexpected outcomes Barkerville Heritage Trust secures 7 more years running the historic site Surrey artist takes...

In this episode, Jazmin and Madison are joined by Dr. Sharanjit Kaur Sandra and Melvin Sedeora of Museum Liberation Force.  We chat about how the grassroots group got started, what they hope to see happen with the South Asian Canadian Museum project, and how the community feedback process has impacted them so far. We also delve into the ways that complicated conversations can be handled with care...

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. January Stories: Rebuilding Telegraph Cove: Community Mobilizes to Restore a Vital Economic Engine - West Coast NOW   Museum of Anthropology unveils first exhibit dedicated t...

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month, we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, Lorenda, and a special guest as we explore our favourite MuseNews! In this final MuseNews of 2024, each of our hosts picked their favourite stories to reshare. Thank...

What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community.    In this episode, Lorenda asks: What does the future of AI look like? What does the future, with or without AI, look like?   You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here .    Thank you to our collaborators:  Elizabeth Batista, Execut...

What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community.    In this episode, Lorenda asks: Why are/would we be interested in AI from an Indigenous and racialized individual perspective?    You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here .    Thank you to our collaborators:  Elizabeth Batista, E...

What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community.    In this episode, Lorenda asks: Why are/would we be interested in AI from a GLAM perspective?   You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here .    Thank you to our collaborators:  Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the Gulf of G...

What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community.    In this episode, Lorenda asks: What are you concerned about regarding AI?   You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here .    Thank you to our collaborators:  Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Soci...

What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community.    In this episode, Lorenda asks: What are you interested in learning or knowing more about regarding AI? You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here .    Thank you to our collaborators:  Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the G...

What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community.    In this episode, Lorenda asks: How do you currently use AI? How do the institutes that affect you use AI? You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here .    Thank you to our collaborators:  Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of th...

What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community.    In this episode, Lorenda asks: What do you know about AI? You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here .    Thank you to our collaborators:  Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society SGaan Kwahagan...