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Sleuthing revives lost film of First Nations life by Edward Curtis

Since 1915, nobody has seen the original cut of Edward Curtis’s feature film In the Land of the Head Hunters.

Treasures return from exile

Forty-eight Tsimshian First Nation artifacts, collected in 1863 by the missionary Robert J. Dundas, are revisiting their place of origin, the Northwest Coast. During their long...

Behind the mask of AIDS

A new exhibit shows how Malawi’s Chewa people are using an ancient art form to address a modern epidemic.

The art of adornment

Totems to Turquoise shows why jewellery art plays a shining role in First Nations’ resurgence from the Southwest to the B.C. coast.

Vancouver's history gets a reality check

The past is often said to be golden, but the facts don't bear this out.

MOA gets a modern makeover

By the time the Museum of Anthropology completes its recently announced renewal plans in 2009, it may still be recognizable from the outside but perhaps not inside.

Forum sheds light on city's museum boom

The city's normally staid museum scene has recently gone into overdrive.

Images of war's ambiguity

After a bomb shattered the small Colombian town of Granada in 2000, it was overrun first by guerrillas, then by paramilitaries. It was just one more chapter in a 40-year armed...

Exhibit follows adventurous women into past

With their crinolines and corsets, it's hard to imagine how women of the past moved comfortably through their own cities, let alone travelled the world. But they did-sometimes...

Chinese Script traces ancient writing system

Whether or not we have the skill to read them, Chinese characters are all around us. Examples of one of the world's oldest writing systems pop up anywhere you look: on gaudy...