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Item is an audio recording of speeches made during MOA's official opening ceremonies, featuring the following speakers: Hon. J Hugh Faulkner, then Minister of State for Science and Technology of Canada; the Honorable Grace McCarthy, Deputy Premier of the Province of British Columbia; Thomas K. [?], the Chairman of the Board of Governors of UBC; Douglas T. Kenny, UBC President; the Right Honorable Jules Léger, the Governor General of Canada.

Item is an audio recording of speeches made during MOA's official opening ceremonies, featuring the following speakers: Hon. J Hugh Faulkner, then Minister of State for Science and Technology of Canada; the Honorable Grace McCarthy, Deputy Premier of the Province of British Columbia; Thomas K. [?], the Chairman of the Board of Governors of UBC; Michael Ames, Director of MOA at the time; Douglas T. Kenny, UBC President; the Right Honorable Jules Léger, the Governor General of Canada.

File consists of brochures that advertise exhibitions and events at the museum, including short blurbs about each. Each calendar covers a four-month period (January-April, May-August, or September-December).

Types of events described include exhibitions, opening receptions, lectures, artist talks, guided gallery walks, behind-the-scenes tours, events for youths and seniors, site visits and other excursions, conferences, workshops, identification clinics, performances, courses, school programs, calls for volunteers, sales at the gift shop, and reports on research and community-based projects. The calendars also contain museum announcements and news as well as general visitor information and lists of donors.

Series consists of reports, histories, memoranda, notes and other textual material.

Subseries consists of records relating to the exhibit, “Chinese Peasant Textiles Art.” This exhibit was proposed by Elizabeth Johnson and carried out by students. Records include notes, excerpts from articles, visitor survey forms, handwritten notations, hand-drawn diagrams of display cases, proposals and budgets.

The records in this series relate to the planning and development of the 1976 Guatemalan Highlands textile exhibit. The records in the series are primarily visual materials, however other subjects include the design of wall texts for the exhibit and notes on the items to be included in the show. While slides are the predominant form of material in this series other record formats include notes, memoranda, negatives, and photographs.

File contains 8 comment books from the MOA general exhibit, 1976-2000

Dates of comment books:
2000
Feb. 15, 1994 – May 3, 1994
[ca. July, 1994]
Jan. 19, 1995 – [June, 1995]
Feb. 2 - Dec. 1, 2012
Oversize Box 3: Aug. 20, 1982 – Jul. 20, 1985
Visitor/media comments [selected quotes] 1976 - 1986

Subseries consists of images showing artwork from the exhibit <i>Images of LIfe: 50 000 Years of Japanese History</i> and a copy of the proposal for the exhibition (in the form of an illustrated booklet).

Subseries contains images of objects and the exhibit.

File contains two images. The first image is a negative depicting two unidentified people dressed in traditional dress. The second image is of the back of an unidentified person looking at a museum description on a wall. There is a mannequin dressed in traditionnal dress placed to the left of the person.