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<span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"vag-rundschrift-d-mvtf07",serif;color:#131516;letter-spacing:.25pt;mso-ligatures:none">Austerity Tours: How Decades of Funding Stagnation Affects the MOV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">The MOV’s Austerity Tours will highlight the problems, risks and missed opportunities museums typically hide from view: buckets that catch leaks, the oldest continuously
operating freezer in Vancouver, a vintage iPod used to power exhibitions, and, depending on the weather, a hallway filled with ants. The aim is to make voters understand the risks austerity pose to irreplaceable cultural heritage—which is why they’ll be offered
during the 2026 municipal election period. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">In addition to hidden buckets and 20-year-old iPods, the Austerity Tour will include:
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-ligatures:none">Access to areas not normally available to the public;
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-ligatures:none">How MOV’s fabrication team produces new exhibitions at a fraction of the cost of the industry standard;
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-ligatures:none">Discussions with the team responsible for safeguarding the largest civic collection of objects in Canada;
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-ligatures:none">and, imagining what a revitalized civic museum could achieve.
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> Thursdays, September 24, October 1, 8 and 15, 2026
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Time:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> 5:30pm-6:30pm
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Location:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> Museum of Vancouver
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Tickets:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">By donation on a sliding scale.<br>
RSVPs required. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">(plus fees and taxes)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://museumofvancouver.ca/austerity-tours">https://museumofvancouver.ca/austerity-tours</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Ryan Hunt
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">(he/him)</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">CEO</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Museum of Vancouver</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Phone:
</span><span style="color:#767171;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">604.730.5323</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://museumofvancouver.ca/" title="https://museumofvancouver.ca/"><span style="color:blue">museumofvancouver.ca</span></a></span></u></i></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ
(Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.</span></i><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> <img border="0" width="136" height="64" style="width:1.4166in;height:.6666in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DD3154.8A71CA70" alt="Image"></span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Feature Exhibitions:</span></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://museumofvancouver.ca/becoming-the-art-of-gu-xiongPi3AmRdiDtGA92G_79TBHzvfIL7QHL5wvySFCe.MEUCIHrd786K0hyKNU_VlF2afPa4DtTWp6-oxq4mMgBpEbcSAiEAvqaYHngf3ONWtak-sC2IQEUWUHWiSYwNs6L4x1D9FgE" title="https://museumofvancouver.ca/becoming-the-art-of-gu-xiong"><i><span style="color:#0078D7">Becoming:
The Art of Gu Xiong</span></i></a></span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://museumofvancouver.ca/the-suitcase-project" title="https://museumofvancouver.ca/the-suitcase-project"><i><span style="color:#0078D7">The
Suitcase Project</span></i></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://museumofvancouver.ca/hope-meets-action" title="https://museumofvancouver.ca/hope-meets-action"><i><span style="color:#0078D7">Hope
Meets Action: Echoes Through the Black Continuum</span></i></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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