Austerity Tours: How Decades of Funding Stagnation Affects the MOV

The MOV’s Austerity Tours will highlight the problems, risks and missed opportunities museums typically hide from view: buckets that catch leaks, the oldest continuously operating freezer in Vancouver, a vintage iPod used to power exhibitions, and, depending on the weather, a hallway filled with ants.…

In addition to hidden buckets and 20-year-old iPods, the Austerity Tour will include:

Access to areas not normally available to the public; How MOV’s fabrication team produces new exhibitions at a fraction of the cost of the industry standard; Discussions with the team responsible for safeguarding the largest civic collection of objects in Canada; and, imagining what a revitalized civic museum could achieve.

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