Britanny Vis, executive director of the Maritime Museum of BC, at their fresh placement on Douglas Street. ( Kiernan Green/News Staff )
Models of the Princess Margarette and another passenger vessel at the Maritime Museum of BC ’ s Douglas Street placement. ( Kiernan Green/News Staff )
A model of the Princess Marguerite at the Maritime Museum of BC ’ s Douglas Street Location. ( Kiernan Green/News Staff )
The Maritime Museum of BC ’ s presentation distance at their Douglas Street localization. ( Kiernan Green/News Staff ) The Maritime Museum of BC ’ s presentation distance at their Douglas Street location. ( Kiernan Green/News Staff ) Although a bottle christening is in order, that smashing ostentation might prove excessive for the replica vessels of the Maritime Museum of BC .
The twelve or so replica exhibits of the museum have found a fresh family for viewing and event host at 744 Douglas St. It will be open to the public as of Friday, Sept. 3, after six weeks of moving efforts from their former location on Humboldt Street around the engine block .
The museum will host a fantastic open Sept. 9 adherent to COVID restrictions, said museum executive director Brittany Vis. It ’ s besides their anticipate date to reach a fund-raise goal of $ 50,000 required to establish the new quad .
The All Hands on Deck ! campaign has raised about $ 21,000 since launching death week, Vis said, following a few major gifts from individuals. “ There ’ s some very great community support out there. ”
The museum ’ s current feature show, SS Valencia : A Theatre of Horror, was brought over from the museum ’ randomness previous localization and has been extended until the end of October. It tells the fib of the passenger and mail vessel sailing from San Fransico that crashed off the coast of Vancouver Island at Pachena Point in 1906 .
“ One of the worst maritime disasters in an area along Vancouver Island ’ s west english known as ‘ the cemetery of the pacific, ’ ” is how museum literature describes the sink .
“ Her survive diaphragm would have been here in Victoria, ” Vis said. “ But it was January and a classic shipwreck history. There was a storm and it was night. ” The wide floor of the ship, its casting of characters and its 40-hour ultimate ordeal is available at the museum .
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museum patrons can besides rent the new space for events, Vis said. During a regular season, the combined display and presentation spaces could hold deoxyadenosine monophosphate many as 50 people for a standard cocktail, coffee or tea party, she said. Those matter to can email the museum at information @ mmbc.bc.ca .
The museum ’ s raw location, attached to the Victoria Conference Centre, is operated by the City of Victoria. “ It ’ s a static outer space, but it is silent a temp distance while we work on a larger and more permanent wave home, ” Vis said. Their ideal placement is in the Steamship Terminal build adjacent to the Inner Harbour, but COVID has put roadblocks towards that end, she said .
“ There ’ s been a lot of ups and downs ” for the museum, Vis said. In the last fiscal class, gross was down 95 per penny .
“ COVID has decidedly impacted our admission significantly ” she said, since it reopened with restrictions in July 2020. “ But this summer, we started seeing an up vogue, so we ’ rhenium excited about that. We ’ rhenium bright that come fall, as things open, we can see more people come in again. ”
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