Burnaby Village Museum — Attraction in Burnaby

Went there today, disappointed. First they cancelled heritage clothings. Today I entered and East Indian music blasting on museum's speakers. They removed lady hats from tailor store and put East Indian turbans. That store was located on 6th. Street in Burnaby and never had turbans for sale. That store was never selling turbans!!!!? I'm property owner in Burnaby and they finance that museum with my dollar. What a stupidity. I'm never going to go there again. Plus there are display signs everywhere how white people were bad. So I'm supposed to bring kids to read that B.S. Update. Victoria Day.every year in the past we had a parade with queen Victoria, lady who looks the same as queen Victoria. Going in the car with parade and dancers. Today they cancelled that and brought some East Indian dancers?! That is not what I am interested to see in Burnaby village museum. I am interested to see that when I go to India, I don't see any of Canadian heritage there. We should cancel that museum right away, because it is nonsense. Why I have to pay as a tax payer for that?! Let Indian associations pay, or why they don't open a museum on their own somewhere else without stealing our museum?. There is not a single place to see Canadian museum anymore, anywhere in Canada. When you loose your culture, history, identity you are nobody. P.S. I spoke to my neighborhood already the ones who owns properties in Burnaby and we will go to city of Burnaby and question financing this fake museum with our property tax dollars. This fake and stolen museum should be not financed by city of Burnaby. Let them charge visitors with admission fee and if anyone wants to pay and visit them. That should be their income. So they can operate that way. Because there is nothing for us there ,We are not going there so why we should pay for it?!. 2024 Victoria Day update. The same B.S. East Indian dancers , building by building taken away . Today they took the mountain cabin and I guess they will put some diversity display. This used to be my favorite museum for many years till they started running it. I've sent emails to the museum with questions, they never replied with answers. The time is to find another museum, the real one not fake like this one. If display is not historically accurate don't put it, we don't want to see it. What is a point putting a display in a museum if it is not...

This place is terrible! It is the most historically inaccurate place I probably ever visited. And they are just appeasing and doing a checkbox to include everybody but they're doing the very minimum. They're adding an Indian house, and an indigenous house but they're just shoving random facts in and amongst all this place. It doesn't know what it's supposed to be. They're talking about Tick Tock and modern issues that have nothing to do with the actual time and place this Museum was based on. They could have at least built a traditional indigenous house, and let indigenous artists build it. But there's nothing traditional about this, they're just throwing it in there as like a diversity mention to get more. It's ridiculous and I've lost respect for this place. They don't do anything properly here anymore, they have no real art director actually direct this place. There is no immersion whatsoever anymore it's place is an embarrassment it has no idea what it's doing whatsoever. Not to mention this location isn't original for the houses maybe there's one that's actually here but everything was brought here. The concrete walkways ridiculous there shouldn't be any of that whatsoever. They're lucky it's free to get in cuz I wouldn't pay for this it's just a mishmash of junk. It's nice to look at but a lot of these aren't even original and when they repair them they don't even make it look original. This is just poorly done in every shape way and form they destroyed what this Museum used to be and or what it could be. You can tell there's no money to actually hire real experience to stories to put this place together properly and have respect for this place. This will be the last time That I visit here comma this place has been totally destroyed I wouldn't bring anybody here for education Comma There's no real education here this is just random stuff thrown together no wonder there's misinformation in the world when you don't even understand What you're looking at period! And the staff are so uneducated on what they are demonstrating. I heard "I don't know" more times than I've ever heard in my life!!!! If you don't know when what are you doing here! Why are you "educating" on a tool, or...

I had high expectations for this museum before I came. But what was offered was a small amount of history that was more focused on the ordinary and regular part of early life. It was not very fascinating compared to other museums I have been too. Some things to consider that I felt was a bit disrespectful - A lovely church was used as a lunch area not as an exhibit. The indigenous exhibit was hard to enter, and lost interest because there was no way to find the entrance. Or was it closed? It would have been nice to have historical people who could share their experiences. I never saw an exhibit about the contributions of the Chinese. There was a room showing South Indian contributions. Mostly people walked in and out. A great opportunity to teach and educate people about diversity is mostly lost because things seemed randomly placed. We walked by a stream but didn’t see signage about the importance of the river. Lots of space to make it larger. Perhaps charging a small admission fee to cover more development and an expanded museum area could be a possibility with more diverse curators. Perhaps have a focus on something different each month like the VAG. It would be nice to see something wonderful like a totem pole, sculptures in various places featuring animals in BC like horses, owls, etc. Update- I will go on another visit and see if there are any exhibits mentioned below. If funding is an issue, why not leave out a donation box or offer raffle tickets to support nearby businesses as well as...