Bobble has always had a special relationship with the museum of civilization. Except it’s not the civilization museum anymore, but the museum of Canadian history.
The Harper government is set to rebrand and refocus the country’s biggest museum into a monument to the history of Canada in the lead-up to celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017.
An announcement is scheduled next week that the Canadian Museum of Civilization will be renamed to focus specifically on Canadian history. The renaming signals a broader mission for the museum beyond its current anthropological focus to one that looks more seriously at Canadian social and political history.
Bobble was quite distraught that the whole 3rd floor gallery is closed until 2017. He doesn’t understand hot it can be made more “Canadian”, as it used to cover the whole development of Canadian history, from the traders to the establishment of New France, the war, and subsequent industrialization. So yeah, colour him confused.
