New Travelling Exhibition!
New Travelling Exhibition has Arrived!
Our Living Languages explores the rich diversity and resilience of Indigenous language and culture within BC.
Through interactive stations, video, and audio, Our Living Languages provides visitors with the opportunity to learn more about the history of disrupted languages in BC, the complexity of these languages, and the people – and entire communities – that are working tirelessly to document and revitalize them.
Our Living Languages is a co-production of the Royal BC Museum and the First Peoples’ Cultural Council, a Crown Corporation with a mandate to support the revitalization of First Nations languages, arts and cultures in British Columbia. The exhibition was developed with the assistance of the Language Exhibition Advisory Committee, comprised of cultural experts from First Nations communities across the province.
We are very excited to welcome Marilyn James (Sinixt matriarch) to the museum on February 18th to help us officially open the exhibit. With gathering limitations, we are unable to do a grand opening event. However, Marilyn will return in the spring for a special presentation as part of our Speaker Series and to unveil some additional Sinixt work and content to supplement our Sinixt history display!