Royal BC Museum Blog

Read on for a virtual cabinet of curiosities featuring our collections, archives, activities and people, and a behind the scenes look with our monthly feature series A Day in the Life of...

What’s new in old records? 2023 edition

January 4, 2024

The BC Archives government records team has processed well over 1,000 boxes of records in the last year, covering a wide variety of topics. Some of these records have access restrictions on sensitive or personal information.

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Geoffrey G.E. Scudder (1934-2023), Servant of Science

August 15, 2023

Geoff was a giant in the Canadian science museum community. His museum work centred on the Spencer Entomological Collection (SEM) at UBC (now part of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum), where he was director from 1958 to 1999.

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What’s new in old records? 2022 Edition

February 7, 2023

The past year has been a bit of a whirlwind at the Royal BC Museum and Archives

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