Victoria Watcher posted topic $40M Inner Harbour floating first nations maritime museum

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Maritime Museum, First Nations pitch $40M attraction for Inner Harbour
The floating structure would house a Lekwungen People's welcome and exhibit centre illustrating how the Indigenous people used waterways for thousands of years before contact The floating structure would house a Lekwungen Peoples welcome and exhibit centre illustrating how Indigenous people used waterways for thousands of years before contact.At the same time, the museum is proposing a move into the CPR Steamship Terminal building, the former home of the Bateman Gallery and current home to restaurants and temporary facilities during the $290-million Belleville Terminal redevelopment project.
Angus Matthews, a volunteer Maritime Museum board member, said the plan is to engage with the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations as equal partners in telling the history of the coast. "It is an Indigenous story told in a floating, purpose-built structure on the harbour, and what you might call a colonial story told in a colonial building on the shore," he said.
"The two of them, side by side, are an attempt to reach a bridge to understand the good and the bad of history in the past."
That kind of ambition comes with a hefty price tag.
Matthews said the plan is for the Maritime Museum to contribute $1 million, and raise a third of the $38 million from corporate sponsors, a third through a local fundraising campaign and a third from the federal government.
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