[BCMA] MOV to offer special Austerity Tours during the 2026 municipal election campaign season

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Ryan,
I love it!! Would you consider sharing the idea? Let's make a provincial movement out of it!!

Dauna




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Austerity Tours: How Decades of Funding Stagnation Affects the MOV

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.

In addition to hidden buckets and 20-year-old iPods, the Austerity Tour will include:

  *   Access to areas not normally available to the public;
  *   How MOV’s fabrication team produces new exhibitions at a fraction of the cost of the industry standard;
  *   Discussions with the team responsible for safeguarding the largest civic collection of objects in Canada;
  *   and, imagining what a revitalized civic museum could achieve.

Dates: Thursdays, September 24, October 1, 8 and 15, 2026

Time: 5:30pm-6:30pm

Location: Museum of Vancouver

Tickets:

By donation on a sliding scale.
RSVPs required.

(plus fees and taxes)



https://museumofvancouver.ca/austerity-tours



Ryan Hunt (he/him)

CEO

Museum of Vancouver

1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC  V6J 3J9

Phone: 604.730.5323

museumofvancouver.ca<https://museumofvancouver.ca/>



We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.



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Feature Exhibitions:

Becoming: The Art of Gu Xiong<https://museumofvancouver.ca/becoming-the-art-of-gu-xiongPi3AmRdiDtGA92G_79TBHzvfIL7QHL5wvySFCe.MEUCIHrd786K0hyKNU_VlF2afPa4DtTWp6-oxq4mMgBpEbcSAiEAvqaYHngf3ONWtak-sC2IQEUWUHWiSYwNs6L4x1D9FgE>

The Suitcase Project<https://museumofvancouver.ca/the-suitcase-project>

Hope Meets Action: Echoes Through the Black Continuum<https://museumofvancouver.ca/hope-meets-action>



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