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BC Museum Portraits: White Rock Museum
The BC Museum Portraits Project is an audio interview and photography initiative that will result in an online archive of the ‘institutional memory’ of the Province’s museums and archives. We’re excited to preview this new collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. In this episode, Spencer interviews Karin Bjerke-Lisle and Charlene Garvey of White Rock Museum.
2020 BC Museum Portraits Collection
Interviews conducted by: Spencer Stuart
Photography by: Tayu Hayward
White Rock Museum
Exterior of the White Rock Museum, the museum is located in an historic 1912 train station on the waterfront.
White Rock Museum
Executive Director, Karin Bjerke-Lisle and curator, Charlene Garvey
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Interior of the museum alluding to buildings past as the historic 1912 train station
White Rock Museum
Interior of the museum.
Detail from ‘Our Living Languages’,
Detail from ‘Our Living Languages’, a traveling exhibition highlighting what First Nations communities throughout the province are doing to help 34 different languages survive and flourish.
Detail from ‘Our Living Languages’
Detail from ‘Our Living Languages’, a traveling exhibition highlighting what First Nations communities throughout the province are doing to help 34 different languages survive and flourish.
Detail from ‘Our Living Languages’
Detail from ‘Our Living Languages’, a traveling exhibition highlighting what First Nations communities throughout the province are doing to help 34 different languages survive and flourish.
Detail from ‘Our Living Languages'
Detail from ‘Our Living Languages’, a traveling exhibition highlighting what First Nations communities throughout the province are doing to help 34 different languages survive and flourish.
‘City by the Salish Sea’
Entrance into White Rock Museum’s exhibition ‘City by the Salish Sea’
The Art Wall
The Art Wall showcasing work by community members.
The Art Wall
The Art Wall showcasing work by community members.
White Rock Train Station
Entrance into ‘White Rock Train Station’, the museum is located in an historic 1912 train station on the waterfront.
White Rock Collection
Items on display from the museum’s collection.
Art Wall
Continuation of the Art Wall as well as more galleries from White Rock’s community collection.
Semiahmoo First Nation display
Display dedicated to the local Semiahmoo First Nation on whose unceded and ancestral land the museum is situated.
History of White Rock
Panels telling the modern history of White Rock
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One of the main draws for visitors coming to White Rock is the historic pier.
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Behind-the-scenes, the White Rock Museum’s cataloguing and receiving room for collections.
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Displays in the main gallery.
White Rock Museum
Displays in the main gallery.
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Paintings in the hung storage area of the Museum’s collection.
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Behind-the-scenes, open shelf storage of the collection.
White Rock Museum
Behind-the-scenes, open shelf storage of the collection.
White Rock Museum
Behind-the-scenes, open shelf storage of the collection.
White Rock Museum
Detail from ‘Our Living Languages’, a traveling exhibition highlighting what First Nations communities throughout the province are doing to help 34 different languages survive and flourish.
The Art Wall
White Rock Museum
Cedar hat from the White Rock collection.
White Rock Museum
Cedar strip box from the White Rock collection.
White Rock Museum
Item from the White Rock collection.
White Rock Museum
Item from the White Rock collection.
White Rock Museum
Item from the White Rock collection.
White Rock Museum
Item from the White Rock collection.
White Rock Museum
Item from the White Rock collection.
White Rock Museum
View through to the display dedicated to the local Semiahmoo First Nation on whose unceded and ancestral land the museum is situated.
White Rock Museum
Sports medals from the Collection.
WRMA image #1991-42-1
White Rock's waterfront 1936
WRMA image #1993-98-56
A group of young friends on the White Rock pier, 1920
WRMA image #1993-67-2
Blasting for Railway bed construction near the rock, 1904
White Rock Museum Photograph
White Rock Museum Photograph
White Rock Museum
Exterior of the White Rock Museum, the museum is located in an historic 1912 train station on the waterfront.
White Rock Museum
Exterior of the White Rock Museum, the museum is located in an historic 1912 train station on the waterfront.
