Month: May 2025

Apparently museums can be not boring?

Welcome back to my blog, everybody.

This project was quite a unique one, being heavily focused on museums. But! Be prepared for a whole lotta images because this project contained not only a field trip, but also a video. So, without further delay, let’s get started.

So we need a driving question, and for this project, it was “What role do museums and governments play in acknowledging and addressing historical injustices?”. To me, this question seemed to be really specific and not super open-ended, however, I came to realize that museums are more than just places where boring people and nerds hang out.

First of all, we started this project by being given a choice between 3 final products. We could write a letter to an MLA, make an audio recording, or we could make a video. And because I hate my free time, I decided to make a video…. From scratch….. using iMovie….. but we’ll get there.

This project was quite short, only lasting 3 weeks total, so I’ll mostly be focusing on the field trip. We started out by waking up at FIVE! AM! To get on a stupid boat. But after I was done zombie walking onto the sea bus, we continued towards Victoria and started to work on the ferry. We had to make a list of questions that we wanted to ask the museum staff, but that stuff is mostly boring, so here are a bunch of photos from the museum.

The museum was surprisingly quite interesting, and I really liked the exhibit with the fake animals.

The next day, we went to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Unfortunately, we couldn’t take a lot of photos, but since we were a school group, we got special VIP treatment. They were quite excited to have us there, and our MLA, Susie Chant, was very enthusiastic about showing us everything she possibly could. We started our tour with our guide, Nicholas, who showed us some very interesting ways that Indigenous communities were honoured throughout the building. We also went into sections that were usually off limits, but because Susie was so happy to have us there, she pushed us through. Unfortunately, I can’t share much information because…. You know….. I’m not allowed…. But what I can do is share these photos.

Now we were headed home after 2 very, very veeerrryyyy long days. And there were still more long days to come. Because when I got home, I had 1 day of rest, then I was off to Edmonton for a choir trip with 2 SEPARATE 16 HOUR BUS RIDES. So safe to say I was struggling, sleep-wise and mental state-wise. But when I got home, I got straight to work. And by straight to work, I mean I waited until the weekend because I was in much need of sleep.

Now I’m done complaining, let’s talk about what needed to be in the video. We had to provide a clear thesis that set the theme for our whole video. We had to provide 2 pieces of evidence that strongly supported our thesis. And we had to give a call to action on how museums and governments could improve. So now you know the work we had to do, let’s watch my video.

Well, what did you think? I worked pretty hard on it, so I hope you liked it.

Usually, I end my posts with my answer to the driving question. Buuuuuut I kind of already did that in my video. So I’ll end slightly differently. I’m going to ask you the driving question. I ask that you take a few minutes to come up with an answer yourself, for the question “What role do museums and governments play in acknowledging and addressing historical injustices?”.

That’s it for this blog post. I hope you like the added media, and I’ll see you next time.