Nanaimo Museum Christmas in the golden age of radio exhibit
You don’t need a Scrooge or ghosts to glimpse into Christmas’ past. For the month of December, the Nanaimo Museum is featuring an exhibit called Christmas in the Golden Age of Radio. The exhibit includes radios from the museum’s collection and highlights popular culture from the 1920s-1940s, including Christmas traditions. The exhibit opened on December 1 and will run … Continued
Museum to showcase spooky Cedar history
This October, the Nanaimo Museum is hosting two tours of downtown’s dark past. On Wednesday nights until Halloween, the story of Brother XII, Cedar by the Sea’s infamous cult leader from the 1920s, will be given a new perspective. “The Halloween season seemed like the ideal time to launch a Brother XII tour because every … Continued
Nanaimo Art Gallery and Nanaimo Museum partner for new exhibits
Blueberry bushes slowly grow around a podium made of Vancouver Island hemlock. A poem sits atop the podium waiting to be read. It is noon, and the late Peter Culley’s poem Fruit Dots is being read aloud. Black elastic cords are intricately threaded through the walls, vibrating with tension. This is Silva Part I: “O … Continued