Personally, I don't see a need to criticize the NDP on the Royal BC Museum issue as hard as the media and general public seem to be doing. The biggest issue I see is that it is just a slightly bad timing, and that in turn makes for poor optics. We are seeing massive inflation now, and Horgan's steady refusal to lower / suspend gas taxes are just making people angry even though it is unfair to blame global oil price fluctuations on a provincial government.
Personally, I've always enjoyed my visits to the Royal BC Museum. Does it rank among the best museums in the world? or even just within Canada? Of course it doesn't. But I have always found its exhibits interesting.
From following the news, it seems to me that the need to revamp the museum is primarily 2-fold:
- to make it seismically safer
- to address deficiencies due to wear and flood risks
Here is a picture from News 1130, courtesy of the provincial gov:
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2022/0...yal-bc-museum/
I dunno about you, but all of that looks pretty bad to me.
Nobody knows when an earthquake will strike, but if last year's record rainfall hasn't gotten you concerned about flood risks and the damage they are capable of, I think you are missing the point. If a significant portion of stuff in the museum's archive and collection gets damaged, the provincial gov will get blamed for not taking any action to protect our culture.
So the way I see it is, the provincial gov is sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place. They made the choice to rebuild the museum, and they are taking heat for it. But if they didn't and shxt hits the fan, they're gonna get blasted too, and I would say losing those cultural treasures is worse off than spending the money to rebuild the museum now.
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
This is insane. 800 million dollars for this new museum and they don’t have a design yet.. opening in 2030 this will surely be a billion $+ project by the end of it
https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/b...GH9kamaSuWI6E8
At the end of the day you’re not even going to have a world class facility for that money. No one cares about the exhibits or the peices they have there.
In 2019 I went to the titanic Belfast, it’s a museum 100% dedicated to just the titanic and it blew away this museum in its entirety.
What a fucking waste of money. |