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Collection: an accumulation of objects gathered for study,
comparison, or exhibition, or as a hobby
Collections are born when someone decides to gather together objects
that she or he believes are important and expressive of...
by Meg Hamilton
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The Art of Mourning in Ottawa: ReVisioning Victorian Bereavement
Artefacts — An Artist’s Residency
During her residency, Ottawa artist Cindy Stelmackowich delved
into the museum’s extensive holdings of Victorian era mourning
artefacts, searching for domestic items and public memorabilia.
by Judith Parker
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Director’s Message
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With Kid Gloves: The Conservation of a Marble Bust
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Looking Back at 2010
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Membership & Fundraising
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Meet the New Program Manager
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RINGLETS AND LACE:
A Long-Forgotten Portrait of Annie and Amelia McLeod
The Bytown Museum’s
extraordinarily rich collection of
historic artefacts and works of art
has yielded yet another longforgotten gem, a double portrait of
sisters Annie and Amelia McLeod ,
painted in oil by Moses Pierce and
probably dating from the late 1840s.
This charming portrait, entitled
Annie and Amelia McLeod, depicts the
two girls in identical lace-trimmed
crimson dresses, coiffed in ringlets
as they tenderly hold each other’s
hands. Though the paint surface is
very unstable and has been poorly
retouched, the work still conveys a
strong aesthetic and human presence
and begs two questions: who was
the McLeod family? And, what was
their connection to Ottawa? A trail of research has led to the
discovery of two other portraits of
the McLeod family, both also by
Moses Pierce and held in Library
and Archives Canada’s documentary
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art collection: John McLeod, c.1835-45,
a portrait of the family patriarch,
and Malcolm McLeod, c.1848, who
The double portrait Annie and Amelia McLeod
was donated to the Bytown Museum in 1936.
The painting will have to undergo an
expensive conservation treatment, including
the consolidation of loose paint and the
removal of old retouchings, before it will be
able to once again hang in the Museum.
(Photo: Bytown Museum)
was his eldest son and a Montreal
lawyer. John McLeod was an
important figure in Canadian
history. Born in Scotland, McLeod
became the Hudson’s Bay
Company’s highest official, and was
responsible for the management of
numerous fur trading outposts
across western Canada . McLeod
was father to six daughters and three
sons. Moses Pierce’s depiction of the
physical appearance of father, eldest
son, and two daughters bears
witness to the McLeod family
history. In 1819, John married
Charlotte Pruden, who was the
daughter of Hudson’s Bay Company
official Peter Pruden and his
aboriginal wife. The dark hair,
brown eyes and brown toned
complexions of Malcolm and his
sisters Annie and Amelia, compared
to that of their fair-skinned, lighteyed father are a testament to this
aspect of their First Nations heritage.
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DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
Collection: an accumulation of objects gathered
Dear friends and supporters,
for study, comparison, or exhibition, or as a hobby
I am excited to present to you our
second edition of Bytown News. This
issue focuses very much on the
Museum’s permanent collection –
the heart of the museum and its
central focus.
The discovery of Annie and Amelia
McLeod by Moses Pierce is truly
exciting. Though in desperate need
of conservation work, the painting
does point to the quality of the
collection the Bytown Museum is
entrusted with.
Close to forty artefacts will be on
display this summer as part of the
exhibition Hidden Treasures from the
Bytown Museum scheduled to take
place between June 23 and October
2, 2011.
The exhibit will present many
exceptional artefacts from the
collection of the Museum, including
two lithographs by Cornelius
Krieghoff, and one marble bust of
Lady Macdonald attributed to English
sculptor Marshall Wood. I will take
this opportunity to invite all of you
to the opening event on Wednesday
evening, June 22, from 5 pm to 8 pm.
Our collection of artefacts is as
varied as the stories these objects
convey. In 1919, the Bytown
Museum listed a mere 178 artefacts
(or historical relics as they were then
called) in its collection. Today, we are
the custodian of over 7,000. I invite
you to discover or re-discover our
permanent collection.
Sincerely,
Mike Steinhauer,
Director
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At the heart of most museums lies
“the Collection.” The stories, exhibits,
and programs that museums explore
tend to spring from artefacts found
within their permanent collections.
Through a deeper exploration of their
collections many museums strive to
connect the past with contemporary
issues and societal concerns. Think of
a meaningful moment you’ve
experienced at a museum – was it a
particular object that struck you as
the perfect metaphor for something in
your own life? Was it the
juxtaposition of multiple objects that
brought about a new awareness or
understanding of a once foreign
concept or idea? Or perhaps it was
the act of sharing personal stories
with someone else as you both gazed
at a specific object?
He cupped it in his grubby hands and
pondered his find. He wondered
aloud that “maybe a boy just like me
lost it a hundred years ago.” We
talked about the relative value of the
coin and what a boy could have
bought with it a hundred years ago –
and what a blow it would have been
to lose it! Solemnly my nephew
slipped the coin into his pocket – not
to spend – but to add to his collection.
It is pure magic when one connects on
a deep personal level with an object.
The drive to collect crosses
boundaries – including gender, faith,
ethnicity, and age, income, and
education level. However, history
shows that the objects usually
deemed important and worthy of
inclusion in a museum’s collection
were most often those that
Collections are born when someone
represented the dominant and
decides to gather together objects that powerful members of a community,
she or he believes are important and
society, or culture. Museums in the
expressive of a time, a place, a person, 21st century are moving beyond this
a theme, or an event. Sometimes these antiquated and narrow focus.
objects are amassed slowly – over
Increasingly, museums are conscious
decades or generations. At other
of their responsibility to present and
times they are brought together
reflect a broad range of perspectives
hastily – in an effort to save or
and ideas.
salvage objects that are at risk or in
danger of disappearing altogether.
A small, community institution like
The relevance and value of a
the Bytown Museum can meet this
collection to an individual or a society task head-on by actively engaging
grows over time as stories,
their community in identifying
experiences, and personal memories
objects that speak to the experiences
become affixed to, and associated
of women, children, and others who
with the objects.
were historically less dominant. These
voices will add to the richness and
As children, many of us collect things diversity of the stories that the
that speak to us – or help us to
museum tells.
interpret and understand our unique
place within the complex world
Meg Hamilton,
around us. Years ago, while digging
Vice President of the Board of
in a garden, my young nephew and I Directors of the Bytown Museum
found a silver coin from the 1880s.
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Ringlets and Lace
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The portrait Annie and Amelia McLeod was
donated to the Bytown Museum in 1936,
which was at the time managed by the
Women’s Canadian Historical Society of
Ottawa. Miss Georgiana Pearce was the
donor and a note in the collection
database says she was John McLeod’s
granddaughter. She donated other
artefacts from her grandfather’s
collection. The database also states that
John McLeod died in Ottawa on
December 10, 1860, while staying with his
nephew’s widow, Mrs. William Stewart.
The two other McLeod family portraits by
Moses Pierce were sold by Miss G. Pearce
to Library and Archives Canada in 1913.
Artist Moses Pierce is connected to the
development of early Canadian art
history. In 1812, he provided art
instruction to a young man from Quebec
City, Joseph Légaré, while Pierce was
living in Quebec. Légaré became one of
Canada’s most important early painters
and ten of his paintings are now found in
the collection of the National Gallery of
Canada. Pierce’s course of instruction to
Légaré lasted only a few months as he
was obliged to leave Quebec when the
United States declared war on Britain in
July 1812. Pierce later returned to Canada
and worked in Montreal from 1834–35
and in Quebec City from 1844–48.
Judith Parker,
Acting Curator
TOP LEFT | Grant Vogl, Collections and Exhibitions Manager, inspects the back of the
painting. The lower left shows one of the two patches found on the verso of the painting.
The patches will need to be removed to properly mend two tears. The painting will then
be lined on a new canvas before being re-mounted on the original stretcher.
TOP RIGHT |This photograph shows the varnish layer. The painting had been
selectively cleaned during a past restoration job resulting in a very uneven varnish layer.
The hairline on the figure’s forehead has also been changed.
ABOVE | Green area: Paint losses. Note that areas of paint losses are found throughout
the painting. Blue area: Old retouching. Texture and colour do not match the original
paint surface. Black area: Retouchings (likely done by a different hand than blue area)
cover smooth filling of premature drying cracks, which may cover some original paint.
(Photos: Bytown Museum)
HOW YOU CAN HELP
For nearly a century, the Bytown Museum has collected, studied and displayed artefacts that tell the story of Ottawa. The story
of Annie and Amelia McLeod and their family is one that the Bytown Museum believes deserves closer examination and more
study. While the artistic quality of Annie and Amelia McLeod is extraordinary, its poor condition means that it cannot be shown
without extensive conservation work. As a supporter of the Bytown Museum, we hope you agree that the stories our artefacts
reveal, such as the story of the McLeod family, are important and should be shared. You may wish to assist in contributing to
the cost of conserving this special painting. The Bytown Museum is able to contribute $2500 toward the total cost of $5000 to
restore Annie and Amelia McLeod, and we are looking for support to pay for the other half of this important work. We hope you
will help us preserve this story and help us place this beautiful portrait back on the walls of the Museum. Please contact
Francesco Corsaro, Director of Development, today to make your tax-deductible donation at (613) 234-4570 x225 or at
[email protected]
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ReVisioning Victorian Bereavement Artefacts — An
Artist’s Residency
Judith Parker, acting curator, invited Cindy to
inaugurate the Museum’s first collections-based artist
residency because Cindy’s artistic practise, based on
the reinterpretation of 19th-century images and objects,
paralleled strengths in the Museum’s collections. For
example, some of Cindy’s recent digital prints were
created from 19thcentury medical
illustrations of disease
and death layered and
edged with Victorian
mourning lace imagery.
Both Cindy’s large scale
prints and sculptural
objects are the fruit of
her research in British
and French archives
and other 19th-century
material repositories.
Her assessment and
selection of historic
bereavement artefacts
Cindy Stelmackowich examines
and scientific imagery
one of the Museum’s hair wreaths
depicting illness
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The Museum’s artist residency pilot project’s objectives
are to facilitate opportunities for innovative research
and creative interpretation by offering its unique
collection as a source of inspiration for the
contemporary re-examination of Ottawa’s early
cultural history.
The Art of Mourning in Ottawa: ReVisioning Victorian
Bereavement Artefacts
A public talk given by artist Cindy Stelmackowich on
Saturday, 30 April, 2011, from 2 to 3 p.m.
English | Bytown Museum | Free admission
Presented in partnership with the NAC’s Prairie Scene
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With Kid Gloves: The
Conservation of a Marble Bust
With our upcoming summer exhibition, Hidden Treasures
from the Bytown Museum, several gems from our
collection will be on display for the first time in decades.
These artefacts all play a part in telling the historic and
ongoing story of Ottawa. One of the most striking pieces
that will be part of the exhibition is an exquisite marble
bust of Lady Macdonald. Unfortunately, the bust has
suffered somewhat over the years, and was quite dirty
and stained, requiring professional treatment prior to the
exhibition.
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During her residency, Cindy delved into the museum’s
extensive holdings of Victorian era mourning artefacts,
searching the collection database for domestic items
and public memorabilia, including hair wreaths;
clothing such as black lace veils and capes; jewellery
such as lockets, bracelets, and earrings made of woven
hair; and decorative items such as memory ware jugs.
Her research uncovered a number of fascinating and
unusual objects, which conveyed poignant emotions
when viewed at the Museum’s off-site collection
storage. From her study of these pieces Cindy will
create new works of art that reinterpret the intimately
charged visual languages of mourning, mortality,
beauty, and death. Cindy will also present a talk about
her residency at the Bytown Museum on Saturday,
April 30 at the Museum.
Ottawa artist and academic Cindy Stelmackowich
began her artist-in-residence project at the Bytown
Museum during a fierce February snowstorm.
Originally from Melville, Saskatchewan, she was not
deterred by the un-ploughed laneway and arrived at
the Bytown on time and in style.
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provides a wealth of visual material for her
aesthetically refined works of art.
The Art of Mourning in Ottawa:
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Donated to the Bytown Museum (then managed by the
Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa) in 1930
by Mary Macdonald, the bust is reputed to have been
from her father’s library, that of Sir John A. Macdonald,
and is attributed to renowned English sculptor Marshall
Wood. The bust, all elaborately sculpted in white marble,
features the likeness of the young Lady Agnes
Macdonald in a Grecian-style cloak, pinned over her left
shoulder with a round brooch. Her hair is tied in a bun
at the back, and is braided over the top of her head.
After speaking with several local conservators, I
discovered that I would have to look outside of Ottawa
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for an accredited sculpture conservator. This led me to Alexander
Gabov, BFA, MAC, from Conservation of Sculptures, Monuments,
and Objects, in Kingston, Ontario. After contacting Alex and
discussing possible treatment options, it became apparent that he
was the right person for the job. Despite weighing upwards of 150
pounds, the bust is quite fragile, and would have to safely travel
from our storage facility in Carp, Ontario, to Kingston, and then
back to Ottawa, all the while remaining in a stable environment. Our
limited budget precludes the construction of custom crates.
However, Alex had constructed a crate for the conservation work of
another equally famous bust, that of Lt. Col. John By, for the renewal
of the Bytown Museum in 2007. Lady Macdonald fit the crate
perfectly, and only required some shaped padding and insulation for
safe transport.
Once in Kingston, the process began. The treatment included the
removal of surface grime, paint, and stains with soft brushes,
conservation-grade erasers, and an enzyme solution. This last step
The bust of Lady Macdonald seen in storage prior to being
was especially difficult because marble is slightly soluble in water, so crated for conservation work. Marshall Wood (attrib.),
c.1867-73, marble, Bytown Museum, N59.
this exposure had to be localized to the affected areas (improper
cleaning in the past had removed the shine so often associated with
marble). Several small chips and fills were not treated due to the associated costs. Also, had our budget allowed, a
series of tests could have been performed to determine the source of the marble. In the end, the treatment was well
worth the effort, and the bust will look spectacular within the summer exhibition.
Grant Vogl,
Collections and Exhibitions Manager
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Bytown At Your Fingertips
by Robert Serré
Bytown At Your Fingertips is the essential document of the formative years
of Ottawa. Key events, places, and people of Ottawa between the years
1826 and 1854 are fully examined and explored. Written for both the expert
historian and those with a more casual interest, this is the book for all
Ottawa enthusiasts.
The book includes 16 pages filled with beautiful photographs of artefacts
from the collection of the Bytown Museum, depicting the early history of
Canada’s national capital.
Bytown At Your Fingertips
Bytown en toutes lettres
by Robert Serré
Bytown Museum, 2011
292 pages, 20 colour plates, bilingual publication
$19.95 + HST
$14.95 + HST for Bytown Museum Members
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Looking Back
Café & Boutique
2010 was another great year for the Bytown Museum.
Following are a few of the many highlights.
The Bytown Museum Café &
Boutique offers a wide selection
of original gift ideas, exhibition
catalogues, and a collection of
books relating to the
construction of the Rideau Canal
and the history of Ottawa. The
Café & Boutique is open yearround during regular museum
hours. The following titles are
available at the Bytown Museum
Café & Boutique:
The Museum’s summer exhibition Evocative Objects:
Artefacts Unfolding Neighbourhoods, held from May 21 to
September 5, explored the meaning of objects in a
beautiful and inspiring new way. It presented objects,
both museum pieces and ordinary ones, as things that
matter as they connect us to the community we live in.
The online version can now be viewed on
www.ottawagraphy.ca.
Many Guises: Contemporary Self-Portraits was launched as
part of Festival X Ottawa Photography Festival. The
historical exhibition Likeness: Historic Photographs from the
Bytown Museum Collection complimented Many Guises.
Both exhibits opened on September 25, and brought in a
steady flow of visitors, both new and old, during the
autumn months.
Ottawa Canada
by William P. McElligott
William P. McElligott, 2011
$50.00 + HST
$45.00 + HST for Bytown Museum
Members
In conjunction with our many exhibitions, the Museum
offered several innovative programs including a photobooth activity and community wall, an artist’s panel
discussion, a photo collage workshop, two curator’s talks,
and a special Members-only event held this past
November: A New Lease: Recently Conserved Artefacts from
the Bytown Museum Collection.
Several key artefacts, including one of the Museum’s
mayor’s chairs, Fred Cook’s Mayor’s Chair (E74), and two
oil paintings from its permanent exhibition, Portrait of
Sarah Olmstead (artist unknown, n.d.; P267) and Portrait of
Henry Newell Bate by W.A. Sherwood (1898; P253), were
conserved in 2010. As part of the Ottawa Museum
Network conservation project, five photographs, three
maps, and one work on paper from the Museum’s
significant works on paper collection were also treated.
The Museum’s online presence has grown significantly
with the popular Capital Neighbourhoods site and our
Facebook page. The former had over 17,000 visitors in
2010!
While tourism was down in 2010, the Bytown Museum
was able to lessen its dependence on the fluctuating
tourist market by increasing its visibility and growing its
local audience. The results are truly commendable as the
Museum was able to boast an attendance record and
boutique sales record for 2010.
Glen Shackleton,
President of the Board of Directors
of the Bytown Museum
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Bakers’ Daughter: The story of a
long, rich and very Canadian life
by Grete Hale
The Ottawa Citizen, a division of
Postmedia Networks Inc., 2011
$19.95 + HST
$17.96 + HST for Bytown Museum
Members
Charlotte: The Last Suffragette
by Dave Mullington
General Store Publishing House,
2010
$30.00 + HST
$27.00 + HST for Bytown Museum
Members
John Heney & Son: The Canadian
Saga of an Ottawa Irish Family
By John J. Heney
General Store Publishing House,
2010
$29.95 + HST
$26.99 + HST for Bytown Museum
Members
Ottawa Notre Dame Cemetery: An
Historic Cemetery of National
Importance Established in 1872
(also available in French)
by Jean Yves Pelletier
Les Editions GID, 2009
$34.95 + HST
$31.45 + HST for Bytown Museum
Members
(Photo: William P. McElligott)
Museum Hours
October 12, 2010 – May 20, 2011
Open Tuesday to Sunday from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Closed Mondays
May 21, 2011 – October 10, 2011
Open daily, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday to 9 p.m.
(free admission after 5 p.m.)
Free Admission:
May 18, International Museum Day
June 4 & 5, Doors Open Ottawa
July 1, Canada Day
Dates to Note:
Victoria Day is May 23., The Bytown
Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Prairie Scene runs from April 26 to
May 8. Visit www.prairiescene.ca for
details
Bytown News
Editor: Francesco Corsaro
Contributors: Francesco Corsaro, Meg
Hamilton, Diane Martin, Judith Parker,
Glen Shackleton, Mike Steinhauer, Grant
Vogl
Send address changes, letters and story
ideas to:
Bytown News
1 Canal Lane | P.O. Box 523, Station B
Ottawa, ON K1P 5P6
(613) 234-4570 x225
[email protected]
Charitable registration number:
867207201RR0001
Bytown News is published 3 times a year
Next issue will be released July, 2011
Bytown News: Spring 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9812860-5-1
Bytown News is also available in French:
Les Infos Bytown
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Updated as of April 9, 2011
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Every effort is made to keep this list up to date and accurate. If you notice an error or omission, please contact Francesco Corsaro, Director of
Development. Go to www.bytownmuseum.ca and click DONATE NOW. Make a secure, tax-deductible donation to the Bytown Museum
through www.canadahelps.org or fill out a donation form and send it by mail to the attention of Francesco Corsaro.
Membership & Fundraising
Board of Directors
The renewal and rejuvenation that comes with spring has also come to
the Bytown Museum Membership Program. If you are already a member,
then you know that your membership allows you unlimited admission
to the Bytown Museum for one year, a subscription to Bytown News,
invitations to special events, a vote at the Annual General Meeting, and
two free family passes for you to use as you wish. The new Membership
Program includes all those benefits plus a 10% discount on all items in
the Café & Boutique as well as a 10% discount on admission to the
Museum for your guests! Members will also enjoy member-exclusive
events – events like the conservator talk A New Lease: Recently Conserved
Artefacts from the Bytown Museum Collection, that we held in November
2010. The Membership Program is designed to help you discover and reexplore the Bytown Museum and its vast collection.
Glen Shackleton – President
Meg Hamilton – Vice President
Dominique Lajoie – Secretary
Tom Caldwell – Treasurer
Carolyn Cook – Director-at-Large
Helen McKiernan – Director-at-Large
Allan Meltzer – Director-at-Large
Henriette Riegel – Director-at-Large
The Membership Program is also now more family-friendly! A new Flex–
Family category is offered with your family in mind. The Flex–Family
membership offers all the same benefits of an individual membership,
with the additional benefit of free admission for the two named adults on
the membership plus three children under the age of 18. The Bytown
Museum has you and your family in mind with activities and programs
for the whole family throughout the year, like Victorian Photo Collage
Mashup and Colonel By Day. We hope you will visit often to explore the
stories of an evolving city!
Bytown Museum Staff
Mike Steinhauer – Director
[email protected] ; x224
Francesco Corsaro – Director of
Development
[email protected] ; x225
Grant Vogl – Collections & Exhibitions
Manager
[email protected] ; x222
Megan Bocking – Program Manager
[email protected] ; x226
Diane Martin – Boutique Manager
[email protected] ; x223
Judith Parker – Acting Curator
[email protected] ; x228
Membership to the Bytown Museum is now also available for local businesses. With member levels starting at an
affordable $100, if you own a local business it is now easy to show your support for local heritage. To find out how
you can play a leadership role with the Bytown Museum by participating in this exciting program designed
exclusively for corporate and community organizations in mind visit www.bytownmuseum.ca or contact me directly.
Francesco Corsaro
Director of Development
The Bytown Museum gratefully acknowledges the following partners for their support:
Canada Summer Jobs, Canadian Heritage, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Council of Heritage Organizations in
Ottawa, National Capital Commission, Ottawa Museum Network, Parks Canada and Young Canada Works
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Meet Megan Bocking
(Photo: James Hare)
My first month as Program Manager at Bytown Museum has been a busy
one! It has been great getting to know the staff, the collection, and
meeting with our visitors. I am looking forward to my first summer on
the canal and launching new programs in the spring.
For those of you I haven’t met, I started working in museums and
galleries 5 years ago for the Diefenbaker Canada Centre and Mendel Art
Gallery in Saskatoon. I loved the challenge of engaging the public in
museum and gallery programs and decided to pursue my MA in Art
Museum and Gallery Education at Newcastle University in the UK last
year. This past fall, I moved to Ottawa for an internship at the National
Gallery of Canada and immediately felt at home here.
NEW PROGRAM:
Click! Photo Treasure Hunt
The Bytown Museum and National Capital
Commission (NCC) have partnered to
present an engaging, free program for
youth called Click! Photo Treasure Hunt.
Beginning at the Museum, students set out
on their own to explore a mapped area of
the Capital. Cameras are provided, and
each class leaves with a CD of all the
photos taken during this 90-minute activity.
Target age groups: Grades 7 and 8
(Secondary 1 and 2 in Quebec).
To reserve, call 1-800-461-8020 or email
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I am looking forward to re-launching our volunteer program. We will be
hosting the famous Lumberjack Breakfast for our volunteers and
supporters again this Fall. In the meantime, if you are interested in
volunteering please contact me with your areas of interest.
New programs for our upcoming summer exhibition, Hidden Treasures
from the Bytown Museum, will include lectures, hands-on workshops for
families, and a Facebook competition! Keep checking back for
information on our new and exciting programs.
Megan Bocking,
Program Manager
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Hidden Treasures from the Bytown Museum
The Bytown Museum’s summer exhibition presents
exceptional artefacts selected from its significant historic
collection. These unique treasures witness diverse moments
in Ottawa’s rich history – many are being shown for the first
time in decades. Five renowned curators – Janet Carlile, Lilly
Koltun, Steven C. McNeil, Rosemarie Tovell, and René
Villeneuve – have authored scholarly texts about each artefact
for the bilingual illustrated catalogue.
June 23 – October 2, 2011.
Opening reception, June 22, 2011 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Come and explore Victorian Ottawa! Bytown Museum is
pleased to present special programming with admission to
the museum on May 23. Join us for a Crown Making
workshop for all ages and a Victorian Magic show at 2 p.m.
Special hourly tours will focus on Victorian Ottawa and will
be offered throughout the day.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Free with Museum admission.
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The Bytown Museum once again opens its doors for this
weekend-long discovery of architectural treasures in Ottawa.
Learn about the Bytown Museum’s home, the Commissariat
building, during an architectural tour. Tours will be offered
throughout the weekend.
June 4 & 5, 2011. Tours every hour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Free admission.
Victoria Day at Bytown Museum
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Artist talk with Artist-in-Residence, Cindy Stelmachowitch.
Cindy unearthed and researched a wide range of Victorian
mourning artefacts from the Museum’s collection. From her
study of these artefacts she intends to create new artworks
that will highlight the intimately charged visual languages of
mourning, mortality, beauty, and death.
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 2 p.m.
Free admission.
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