Sturgeon Harpoon Knowledge Web
An innovative story-telling exhibition integrating visual, tactile, auditory and digitally immersive elements to meaningfully connect with the xʷməθkʷəyəm Musqueam First Nation community and ways of knowing.
CO-CURATOR/PROJECT MANAGER
An ongoing close partnership with members of the Musqueam First Nation. Led a broad team including collection curators, scientific experts, interpretive liason, visitor services, supporting donors, grant funding bodies, digital producer, graphic designer and exhibit fabricator.
Multimedia exhibition comprising:
1 x digitally immersive online exhibition
2 x permanent tactile exhibits in the museum
3 x custom digital/physical installations at the xʷməθkʷəyəm Musqueam First Nation, at their daycare, youth centre and cultural centre (in progress)
Recipient of the Governor General of Canada’s History Award for Excellence in Museums - History Alive!
“The Governor General’s History Awards celebrate the very best in Canada. Your project exemplified the standards of excellence specifically in presentation, preservation and interpretation of our history!”
“We were immensely impressed by the interactive, innovative, and forward-thinking nature of this project.”
- Canadian Museums Association
Recipient of the British Columbia Museums Association Innovation Award
“…for outstanding innovative and creative achievement.”
"For Musqueam, our traditional territory and all that we steward are more than just lands and resources; they are entry points to aspects of our language, territory, health, technology, and our society and the respect and responsibilities that accompany them; they are part of a larger web of mutually dependent knowledge.
While these relationships were inherent in our ancestors ways of knowing, lack of access to our territory and its resources have rendered this understanding increasingly difficult to transmit intergenerationally.
This exhibition facilitates much-needed engaging cultural and language revitalization and continuity opportunities for our community, specifically attuned to Musqueam's traditional ways of knowing and learning styles."
— Morgan Guerin (Musqueam Fisheries Office and Elected Councillor), Leona Sparrow (Musqueam Title & Rights Division, Intergovernmental Affairs – Liaison to UBC), Renee Stogan (Musqueam Children’s House Supervisor)
