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In The Works

VMC Exhibits

It is with great pleasure that we announce the virtual exhibits and interactive games that are currently in development for the Virtual Museum of Canada.

Are We There Yet? Voyages of Discovery Along the Northwest Edge of the New World

Using interactive maps, models and games, The Maritime Museum of British Columbia will mount a curriculum-based virtual exhibition for a primary target audience of students from grades eight through twelve to shed light on the voyages of discovery along the northwest edge of the New World. The exhibition will show how exploration was driven by economic, scientific, religious and political factors and will examine the shared values and the differences between Europeans and First Nations.

Aimed at middle and secondary school students, this Japanese Canadian National Museum exhibition will use photographs, artifacts and oral history recordings to tell the stories of the Vancouver Asahi baseball team, talented Japanese-Canadian athletes who played from 1914 to 1941. Planning and curriculum guides for teachers will make the exhibit highly classroom accessible.

To be produced by Pointe-à-Callière, musée d'archéologie, Building Montreal will be a virtual exhibition in game format. Players aged 14 and up, assuming the roles of farmers, merchants and labourers, will be challenged to build the city by overcoming difficulties such as fire, disease and rebellion that settlers and residents faced from their arrival the 1600s and throughout the following two centuries.

Canada Beneath the Stars: The Heritage of Our Astronomers and Observatories

Through the history of the nation's astronomers and their observatories, this exhibition will explore Canada's fascination with the stars. ASTROLab du Mont-Mégantic will use a Weblog, 360-degree panoramas, video clips and animation to help "guests" understand how telescopes work, how Amerindians perceived the universe and how astronomy has captured our collective imaginations.

Creating a Cathedral - The Building of the Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's Newfoundland
Launch Date: Fall 2006

When it was finished in 1855, the Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist was the largest Irish Roman Catholic cathedral in the world. Using graphics, illustrations, songs, poetry, and learning activities, this web site, to be produced by the Basilica Cathedral Museum, will engage and immerse Canadian youth in mid 19 th -century St. John's, Newfoundland. The exhibition will explain how the Cathedral came to be from the point of view of the workers, women, children, immigrants, tradesmen, and colourful local characters who built it. The site will allow visitors to “choose” stones from a quarry for the Cathedral's construction and watch while architect Ole Smidt works on his drawings.

Learn about the Gitxsan traditional governance system and that of First Nations in general through this dynamic exploration of a part of Canada's diverse heritage. This interactive site, created by Gitxsan Treaty Office Museum Resource Centre, will include a question submission feature, a chat site, quizzes, and a Gitxsan imax word recognition game related to governance.

Immersive virtual panorama about the History of Atlantic Acadian Communities
Launch Date: Fall 2006

Acadia is celebrating its 400th anniversary! Here, you will find that history continues to play an important role and it is an essential component of primary and secondary school students’ education in the Atlantic. The Village Historique Acadien has asked six college and/or university students to contribute to the unique technical development of this immersive virtual Web site.

Canadian homes can be characterized in a few dozen primary architectural styles. Each house model is a silent testament to the evolving needs of its occupants, the family, and Canadian society. The Lac-Saint-Jean Historical Society is proposing a virtual exhibition consisting of three components covering the evolution of the house, the identification of architectural styles and the heritage renovation process. Material will include historical and current photographs, sketches, technical data, references, and information on the Canadian real estate market. The exhibition, geared to a general and professional audience, will also allow web users to share their heritage renovation experiences.

Photographs: artwork, snapshots and documentaries; blurring the boundaries
Launch Date: Fall 2006

Using photography as an art form, a family snap shot or as a way of documenting an event, photographers continue to use creativity in their work. Gallery TPW features photographers, who in some way, have added to our sense of understand

The University of Moncton Art Gallery is recognized in la Francophonie for its expertise in Acadian art. As a result, they continue to support, promote and interpret the productions of Acadian visual artists. These amazing artists have been profiled in this new dynamic virtual exhibit.

Elaborating on Qu'Appelle: Tales of Two Valleys, the Mendel Art Gallery's major touring exhibition, this virtual exhibit explores the art, culture, stories, history, and spirituality of Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle Valley. Known to the Plains Cree as the "place where the earth meets the sky," the Valley has been, and continues to be, a site where conflict and healing, geography and settlement, commerce and spirituality converge - a touchstone of how Canadians perceive both our collective history and our future. Qu'Appelle: Past/ Present/Future tells tales about a land and its peoples through a kaleidoscope of perspectives, voices, art, and media.

Directed at an audience aged 10 through 14, this exhibition, to be produced by l'Association canadienne d'histoire ferroviaire, will provide insight into the remarkable life of Canadian Sir Sanford Fleming, a true Renaissance man of the rapidly industrializing 19 th century. Through interactive games, video, animation and other multi-media devices, students will learn of Fleming's civil engineering feats, as well as how he introduced standard time, furthered postal services and helped build Canada's railways, among other accomplishments.

To be produced by Urban Shaman Gallery, this project is intended to provide a forum and a venue on line for the exhibition, dissemination, creation and promotion of Canadian Aboriginal media and new media art, placing the work in its appropriate cultural context for a general audience. The works will cover a range of diverse and innovative projects designed to engage, define, challenge and investigate the use of digital and new media arts as practiced by Aboriginal artists.

The gold fever that swept Canada''s north is the colourful part of the nation''s history covered by this exhibition. The Dawson City Museum and Historical Society production will use movie plug-ins, rare archival footage and displays of diaries and letters to draw in visitors. Guests will have the opportunity to play interactive games allowing them to hunt for the precious ore themselves.

"...and still I rise": A History of African Canadian Workers in Ontario, 1900-Present

As an adjunct to a travelling exhibition launched by the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in March 2003, this virtual component, directed to a general audience, will tell the story of Black Canadian workers in Ontario and how their communities countered the conditions and racism they faced. With games, video and audio clips, 3D animation and other interactive media, the exhibition will use a time-travelling train metaphor to explore the legacy of African Canadians in the province throughout the past two centuries.

Utilizing the Calgary Zoo’s extensive audio/video resources, the Canadian Conservation Action Forum will offer students of all ages an exciting and entertaining opportunity to save species on the edge of extinction. Focusing on the Zoo’s own projects with grizzly bears, burrowing owls, leopard frogs, marmots, foxes and hippos, the site will feature lesson plans, activities, a searchable database and links to other Web sites.

'Collection X' is a meta-collection representing the collections of the partners, communities, youth groups and the public within Toronto, the world's most multicultural city. It exemplifies the promise of the web in crossing institutional and cultural boundaries. This collection will draw from the Art Gallery of Ontario and the City of Toronto museum partners' collections focusing on our cultural heritage and Canadian national identity.

A web-based multimedia exhibit, presented by the Doig River First Nation, will showcase Dane-zaa oral history. Gain a better understanding of the rich cultural landscape of the Dane-zaa, an aboriginal hunting group of northeastern British Columbia. School groups and general public alike will enjoy the images, audio, video and other content that this exhibit has to offer.

Through a dynamic and engaging Web interface, the Vancouver Art Gallery will present the first online public presentation of Emily Carr’s entire creative practice: her paintings, drawings, textiles, pottery, cartoons and writing. The site will provide an in-depth examination of Carr’s relationships with First Nations people, her position as a West Coast female artist and her relationship to modernism as a leading Canadian artist of the early 20th century.

The Regina Clay Movement, a particularly creative and vigorous period of Canadian art history, will be documented for the first time in a highly sophisticated virtual exhibition. The Mackenzie Art Gallery will present interactive three-dimensional panoramas, flash-based documentaries on key figures and events, a behind-the-scenes view of the artists’ studios and a lively panel discussion by the artists.

Today the old voices of the Snuneymuxw First Nation Elders grow faint and there are now fewer than six Elders who are fluent in the Hul’qumi’num lanquage. Before the opportunity is lost, the Nanaimo District Museum will tell the story of the Coast Salish people, who have occupied the eastern shores of Vancouver Island for more than 5,000 years, through the voices of these Elders, against a background of digital images of Snuneymuxw artifacts available to the public for the first time.

Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music (VMCTM)
Launch Date: Winter 2007

Canada has a musical tradition as rich and diverse as the multicultural society it represents, from First Nations to immigrants from around the world. The University of Alberta Museums brings this exceptional collection to life with the help of new media. Through the VMCTM’s unique digitized collection of this musical legacy, visitors will be able to explore Canada’s multicultural history, contribute commentaries and submit their own audio-visual compositions.

This virtual exhibit by the Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Simon Fraser University, in cooperation with the Xá:ytem Longhouse Interpretive Centre and the Squamish Departrment of Education, will bring to life the oral histories and legends of two First Nations, the Stó:lõ of the Fraser Valley and the Squamish of the Whistler region. Through dynamic three-dimensional graphics, interactive games and environments, this exhibit will allow visitors to explore the foundations of these First Nations cultures and the history of their interactions with Canadian society.

A dynamic flash site in English and French, this online exhibit of contemporary art will be geared to the teenage learning public. The Glenbow-Alberta Institute will showcase 50 works from western Canadian contemporary artists with video interviews, ambient sound and an interactive studio for visitors to create their own art and critique others’ work.

With vast reserves of fossil remains, Canada is a world leader in palaeontological research, but very little of this material has been made accessible to the public, especially children. Through the creation of Technosaurs.com, the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology will provide a creative, collaborative environment based on an intriguing on-line game to rescue four children stranded in the distant past. While helping the children survive in this long forgotten land and find their way back home, visitors to Technosaurs.com will be able to explore and debate the latest scientific issues, field activities, exhibits and programs of palaeontological researchers.

Beacons of Light: Lighthouses of Prince Edward Island
Launch Date: Summer 2007

For centuries, lighthouses have been symbols of hope, safety and refuge. Nowhere is their presence more valued than on Prince Edward Island. 'The Beacons of Light' exhibition, a production of the Community Museums Association of Prince Edward Island, will explore the history, development, evolution and technology of these lighthouses, singling out significant examples to enhance specific aspects. As well, it will look at the social aspects of the day-to-day life of the lighthouse keeper. Directed at a general audience and at students in grades six through 12, it will provide the opportunity, in an interactive and virtual environment, to visit and tour lighthouses and museums and to experience a panoramic 360-degree view from the top of these beacons.

The Grand Lake Meadows, the largest wetland complex in New Brunswick, is home to diverse and significant plant communities and is a unique treasure of Canada's natural heritage. Mary's Point Shorebird Reserve of the New Brunswick Federation of Naturalists is proposing a virtual exhibition directed at a broad-based audience with high-quality digital photography and navigable web pages describing each distinctive habitat type present in the region.

The amazing hummingbird, with its tiny size, appealing colouring and agility in flight, captures the imagination of everyone. The Musée de la nature et des sciences has a collection of 236 specimens representing 100 species and the Royal Ontario Museum has thousands of hummingbird specimens, testimony to Canadian interest in these fascinating creatures. Yet because the specimens are fragile, they rarely leave museum storage areas. This virtual exhibition, aimed at primary-school children, the general public and bird watchers, will make it possible at last to showcase these specimens. Using an array of textual material, photographs, videos, soundscapes and games, the exhibition will explore the characteristics of hummingbirds both in their natural habitat and in the context of the museum collections.

UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research proposes to develop an online educational resource and virtual-exhibition web site to share the story of "Botany John" Davidson, a notable scientist and teacher who immigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1912. Davidson, British Columbia's first provincial botanist, was also the first director of the botanical garden at UBC; a founding member of the Vancouver Natural History Society; and a co-designer of the lands at the historic Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam. Roughly 5000 documents, photographs, seed scans and herbarium specimens will be digitized and made available online for use by students, educators, researchers and the general public.

Deep within the sanctuary of the Kluane National Park and Reserve soars Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak, the largest mountain in total mass in the world. The Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre will build a major iconic virtual exhibition where visitors can follow an expedition climbing Mount Logan, play interactive games, hear the legends of the Southern Tutchone people as told by elder Joe Johnson or access current research on 200 years of climactic changes.

The goal of this virtual exhibition, to be presented by Galerie de l'UQAM, is to make the link between art and science. Through the use of digital still images, audio and video clips and other media, the exhibition will identify the scientific components found in 25 to 30 Canadian contemporary art practices as they relate to four categories: medicine, agri-food, geography, and history. The project is geared toward an audience of post-secondary students and adult web users.

The Kootenay and Boundary region, located in the southeastern corner of British Columbia, is a hydro engineer’s dream. Scored by narrow mountain valleys, snow-capped peaks and powerful rivers, the area covers over 60,000 square kilometres and has a population of about 150,000. Using a dynamic mapping platform among other devices, this exhibition, produced by the Nelson and District Museum, Archives, Art Gallery and Historical Society, will use timelines and interactive exercises to explore the development and impact of hydropower in the area.

Miguasha National Park has a unique and remarkable story to tell about evolution that the exhibition,'Miguasha: from water to land', will make available to all Canadians in the form of a gateway to the fascinating world of paleontology. Drawing on elements of science, education and play, this production of Musée d’histoire naturelle, parc national de Miguasha is intended primarily for young people. It will consist of written material, photos, visual documents, video, audio recordings and games that will lead visitors through an adventure based on the concept of discovery.

Mont St. Hilaire, on the south shore of Montreal along the Richelieu River, has been listed by UNESCO as a world heritage site, but the agricultural region in which it lies is now threatened by creeping urbanization. In a fascinating online exhibition, the Centre de la Nature du mont Saint-Hilaire will use interactive maps, archival records, photographs, videos, games and quizzes based on the leading edge of university research to encourage preservation of the region’s rural life and local culture.

The industrial era began in Canada by ‘going with the flow’ in the form of the falling water that created hydraulic energy. Anglophones and francophones alike worked together on canal construction during the 19th and 20th centuries, a time when modern society was experiencing tremendous change. This bilingual exhibition produced by the Musée de société des Deux-Rives will show how the construction of networks of canals, along with a dramatic increase in factory work, had a major and irreversible influence on all Canadians. This educational tool will use multimedia to trace Canada’s industrial history along waterways across the country, from construction of the earliest canals to the creation of factories on a large scale.

The Virtual Herbarium of Plants at Risk in Saskatchewan' will showcase rare native plants, an important component of our natural heritage. A cyber production of the Herbarium of the University of Saskatchewan, it will enable the virtual display of 411 species that teachers, students, naturalists and the general public could not have seen under traditional exhibition methods. The presentation will provide facts on biodiversity, taxonomy, and conservation, critical areas to better understand and manage species at risk.

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