Museum of Vancouver Features c̓əsnaʔəm Exhibition on Musqueam History
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The Museum of Vancouver presents c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city, an exhibition focusing on the ancestral village of the Musqueam First Nation located on unceded Coast Salish territory.
Exhibition Background
The exhibition is the first story in the museum's History Galleries. It displays bone, stone, and shell objects surviving from the site, which is also called the Eburne Midden, Great Fraser Midden, and Marpole Midden.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Art, Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver removed over 1,500 artifacts from the Marpole Midden. The exhibition re-examines these historical collection practices and the history of colonialism.

Visitor Features
Design elements referencing a Coast Salish longhouse
Interactive opportunities to pronounce hən’q’əmin’əm’ words
An animated version of a Musqueam story
Recorded interviews with community members
Displays using 3D digital modelling
Association games and family activities

