The Museum Blog

• June 23, 2014

  CENTimental Journey

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  With all the blogging we’ve been doing for Voices from the Engraver, you’d think we had nothing else on our exhibition plate. We do, actually, and it’s called CENTimental Journey. This temporary exhibition, hosted at the Canadian Museum of History, walks you through more than 150 years of the Canadian 1 cent piece.

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• June 16, 2014

  Museum Reconstruction - Part 2

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  We are coming up on a year since we closed the doors on the physical museum. During that year, we’ve worked very hard to make sure everybody knows that we are still a functioning museum and one that will be opening its doors again in a few years on a beautiful new space, with an expanded mission and mandate.

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• June 6, 2014

  Becoming a Collector III

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  For you as the steward of your collection, your aim is to preserve the items as best as you can by protecting them from further deterioration. The pros call this preservation.

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