Friday, June 21, 2013

Op Ed: Bring ethno-cultural halls back to the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Re: Renamed museum plan 'deeply worrying,' June 6.

How right he is when the former CEO of the Canadian Museum of Civilization Victor Rabinovitch says that the new mandate for the proposed Canadian Museum of History is "narrow and parochial" and "deeply worrying."

George MacDonald, the founding director of the Canadian Museum of Civilization (1983 to 1998), is also right when he says the changes are "a stab in the back" to ethno-cultural communities that have donated many outstanding objects to the museum on the understanding that they would be on permanent display, only to see them removed.


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