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2013 Annual Report OUR VISION 2013 Annual Report OUR VISION To hold a mirror up to the city and lead provocative conversations about its past, present, and future. Museum of Vancouver 2013 Annual Report Our Mission Contents To connect people with Vancouver, people with ideas, 5 Letter from the Chair of the Board and people with each other; provoke vibrant debate on 6 Letter from the CEO contemporary Vancouver issues; deliver an outstanding 8 Special Exhibitions museum experience through innovative, world-class 16 School/Education Programs exhibitions and engaging, multidisciplinary public 19 Programming and Audience Engagement programs; explore the continuous transformation of the 24 Collections city in provocative, participatory, and innovative ways; 26 Marketing and Development and build a powerful and relevant collection of Vancouver- 34 Financial Statements focused objects, photography, multimedia, and more. 36 Staff and Volunteers Museum of Vancouver 2013 Annual Report 3 “It’s a great museum and I love the mission of representing the city; there aren’t many museums like this one in the world.” – MOV member Letter from the Chair of the Board A Very Happy Birthday to the Museum of Vancouver The past year has seen what I believe is the Last year, we said a sad farewell to our beginning of the tipping point for the Museum. long serving and much admired Director of Since the launch of our new brand in 2009, we Collections and Exhibitions, Joan Seidl. In have seen immense growth in support from 2014, we will welcome our new Director, the community through increased sponsors, Gregory Dreicer, a highly regarded exhibition donors, and members. Joan’s large shoes. I look forward to a new and Our admissions have grown 25% in those four excitingdeveloper, chapter curator, in andthe storymuseum that manager, is the MOV. to fill years, despite the challenges of our location. And we continue to diversify and broaden The story of our city and its inhabitants At 120 years of age, the Museum is not a our audiences, serving a wider segment of continues to unfold and is safely recorded and stuffy old place living on past memories. our community, including a much younger interpreted by the museum. For this important demographic whose loyalty will help us keep task, I would like to thank our Chief Executive Just a glance at our calendar of events, past and the museum sustainable for a long time to present, shows how active we are, both here in come. staff, supported by my fellow board members, Vanier Park and out in the wider community. volunteers,Officer, Nancy members, Noble, funders,and her andhard-working donors. I We continue to live and breathe our vision and We also earned our fourth Canadian would also like to thank you all and wish you mission to promote provocative conversation Museums Association Award for Outstanding about the City of Vancouver and its people— past, present, and future. accomplishment for any museum. and our visitors— Hugh MANY Bulmer, HAPPY Chair RETURNS. of the Board Achievement in five years—an unprecedented Our Values Integrity and Excellence: We will act with the highest ethical and professional standards in our work, with our visitors, colleagues, and communities. Community Engagement: We value and seek input and collaboration from as 2013 Board of Directors many and as diverse community voices as possible. Hugh Bulmer, Chair Dialogue and Debate: We will act with courage by anticipating and reflecting Bill Cox, Secretary-Treasurer socio-cultural changes and by providing a forum for critical discussions, no matter Hilary J. Meredith, Past-Chair how difficult or challenging. Lauren Elliott Dr. Kate Hennessy Promotion of Intercultural Understanding: We will seek opportunities for the Geoffrey J. Howard many cultures that co-exist here to learn about and from each other. Harriet Man Dr. Bruce Miller Passionate Advocacy for Vancouver: We care deeply about this city and where Janet Morley it is going and how it arrived here—we want to inspire that kind of passionate David Sung concern and interest in our visitors. Museum of Vancouver 2013 Annual Report 5 Letter from the CEO The Museum of Vancouver continues to push the boundaries of what a modern, civic museum can be. and encourage participation in conversations exploring everything from the evolution of about Vancouver. sexuality in Vancouver to the historic photos of Foncie Pulice to the residential architecture MOV has received critical acclaim for our of Daniel Evan White. It was a diverse offering edgy Sex Talk in the City exhibition; launched that generated diverse audiences. smartphone app in The Visible City; and Programming was equally diverse, with experimentedNorth America’s with very firsta pilot augmented design/build reality program in Upcycled Urbanism, to name a few. tours, and even LEGO building for families. MOV is clearly a leader in redefining the exhibition-specific dialogues, lectures, walking museum as an essential social institution: And we continued to engage Vancouverites in from the subject matter we tackle to the way The past year has been a tipping point in our dialogues about issues of importance to them, we engage community. including food security, the built environment, We are engaging with a broader segment design and technology. One of our new ofefforts the topopulation redefine thisthrough historical truly institution.innovative initiatives, Upcycled Urbanism: An Everyday We are also fortunate to be in a city of people programming. Sex Talk in the City, Foncie’s Design Assemblage, took the museum out Fotos, and Play House: The Architecture of Daniel onto the streets. A participatory art project, support us in our efforts to explore new ideas Evan White anchored our exhibitions program Upcycled invited students, artists, designers, who value innovation and risk-taking, and who activists, makers, and the public to reimagine Vancouver’s public space, culminating in a public build on Granville Street in the summer. Another significant accomplishment was the application.completion ofThe a multi-yearVisible City: project Vancouver’s to develop Neon StoriesMOV’s firstexplores virtual the exhibition history andof neon free mobilein the city while allowing mobile users to walk in and around the city, exploring the neon that still exists and the neon that was (through augmented reality). All of these activities are undertaken with the belief that as a public institution, we have a responsibility to encourage participation in the life of the museum. We work extensively with the community (individuals, schools, universities, and other organizations) to create and deliver these remarkable stories, and those people DIY Daniel: LEGO Build Day deserve much of the credit for our success. 6 Museum of Vancouver 2013 Annual Report “Because of the MOV, I’ve been able to explore a world beyond books and headlines about a city that I’m still getting to know. Vancouver is awesome, and the Museum of Vancouver shows off exactly that.” – Christine, MOV Member Winter Wander Collaboration isn’t easy, but it is remarkably accessioning where appropriate and working the Board of the museum for its continued satisfying and at the MOV, we believe, essential support of my leadership and the MOV to our ongoing accomplishments. communities. Growth of the collection is slow team. Joan Seidl, Director of Collections and on specific repatriations to First Nations Exhibitions, retired in September, and we are The museum’s collection continues to inspire the Vancouver story. thankful for her many contributions to MOV. us and others for research, exhibitions, and deliberate, with efforts to fill in the gaps in programming and our retail program. A MOV continues to explore options for moving. Other new faces have come on to the senior great new example is our collaboration with Our building and its location are challenging, management team, and I am grateful for the inhibiting us from creating the type of visitor strength of character and skills each of them experience we believe you deserve. As a result, brings to the museum. We have an amazing asVancouver-based inspiration, they art wrotecollective, and performedA Loose we completed a Functional Program Plan for a team of dedicated, creative people at MOV, as newAffiliation songs of exposingMillionaires. new Using perspectives the collection on well as immense support from our community the city, our greatest artifact. In addition, we of the project with a site evaluation study in partners. I am really looking forward to continue to digitize and make accessible more 2014.new location Stay tuned! and hope to finish off phase two working with all of them and you to build an of the collections for the public. We are also even better city museum. It has been a remarkable year, and I must thank — Nancy Noble, CEO continuing to evaluate our collections, de- Museum of Vancouver 2013 Annual Report 7 Special Exhibitions Sex Talk in the City This multifaceted and highly collaborative Funding Partners: project investigated how ideas about Options for Sexual Health sexuality shape the city. The exhibition The History Education Network/Histoire addressed questions of sexual health, et éducation en réseau (THEN/HiER) diversity, and education. UBC Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness Sex Talk in the City tied compelling historical Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP narratives to contemporary issues of sexuality, grounding them in the Vancouver context. Project Partners: It examined how ideas about sexuality shape Options for Sexual Health our lives, in public events and spaces, laws, The History Education Network/Histoire and images. et éducation en réseau (THEN/HiER) Sex Talk featured diverse perspectives while Supporting Sponsors: highlighting issues and concerns shared Vancouver Foundation across age, gender, ethnicity, and sexual We-Vibe orientations. The development of the project Merck took more than two years and involved the Media Partners: committee and 58 project “allies”. Georgia Straight participation of an 18-person advisory The Peak 102.7fm The goal was to encourage the public to revisit cultural attitudes and beliefs about sexuality.
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