MuseNews Ep. 49: Home Comings and Home Goings

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 2025 Stories:

• • West Van purchases Horseshoe Bay’s Boathouse restaurant for new art museum 
  • Summerland museum shares history Irish settler who helped develop the irrigation system – Penticton News – Castanet.net
  • Kelowna Museum exhibit highlights Japanese Canadian dispossession
  • The Whalers Washing House finally coming home – rabble.ca
  • Possible 25 per cent tariff on books could kneecap local retailers 
  • Horn heist: B.C. train museum gets railroaded by targeted thefts | CBC News
  • Hundreds of items returned to First Nations in Vancouver Museum’s ongoing repatriation process
  • Outdoor exhibits reopening at Vancouver’s Science World with gardening robot, more

If you have news you want to share on this program, please email us at bcma@museum.bc.ca