Archives by date

You are browsing the site archives by date.

PME in the news

Based on an interview in April, there is now a nice little article featuring the response to COVID-19 at PME and other museums. See The Source, Forum of Diversity, a local Vancouver news source, at http://thelasource.com/en/2020/05/04/an-exploration-into-the-digital-realm-how-museums-are-coping-with-the-pandemic/. Click Read More for live links. UBC’s Dep’t Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences was also featured in the previous […]

Mary Anning & International Museum Day

ICOM’s theme for 2020 is “Museums for Equality; Diversity and Inclusion. Mary Anning was the first woman to truly make a difference in the (then) emerging science of paleontology. So these topics seem made for each other! Explore the multimedia page sequence celebrating these two events for the year 2020, and watch our Twitter, Facebook […]

PME: Interactive & Virtual

The last couple weeks has seen many new interactive materials added to PME exhibit pages and new pages with fun and educational activities. Explore the main menu items “Exhibits” and “Learn“. Also, take a virtual field trip focusing on natural hazards in the Vancouver – Whistler region is being prepared for PME use. Meanwhile, a […]