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Museum offers rotating exhibits, displays
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 by GetawayBC.com
Housed in the former Canadian Bank of Commerce building (erected in 1907), the Mission Museum offers visitors a look at the diverse history of Mission through its material culture.
Rotating exhibits focus on specific aspects of Mission’s past, including Sto:lo native artifacts over 3,000 years old, and agricultural and forestry developments of the area. The new exhibit, Kitchen Rations, showcasing a 1940s kitchen, opens in June. Have a Seat Children, an interactive educational exhibit, will be in place until May.
The museum is located at 33201 Second Ave., and exhibit hours are Thursdays 10 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Fridays, 1 p.m. until 4 p.m.
Phone 604-826-1011 for more information.
Mission Community Archives
Located in a specially constructed building at the west end of the library. The archives is located at the corner of Second Avenue and Welton Street. The archives is open Thursdays and Fridays.
Phone 604-820-2621 for more information;