Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

2017.048.036

Title

Drum making with instructor Francis Carter at the Langley Centennial Museum.

Date

1996.

Description

Colour slide of people seated at tables inside the Langley Centennial Museum's program room, making drums. There is one man on the left wearing a green shirt, pulling strings on a drum; beside him is a man with a red plaid shirt, pulling on the drum in front of him. Also on the table is a Hellman's mayonnaise container, paper towel, scissors, a mug, and two other drums. In the bottom right of the photograph someone's hand is touching a drum; the back of someone's head is in the very bottom right corner. The door behind the group is open, making visible one of the walls in the National Exhibition Centre portion of the Museum and one of the walls in the foyer.

People/Subject

Langley Centennial Museum

The Museum is located within a designated Heritage Conservation Area in the village of Fort Langley, Township of Langley. Community collecting began in the 1920's with a Native Sons of BC exhibit located in the last remaining Hudson's Bay Company fur trade era structure (circa 1840). A decision by the Canadian Parks Services to actively interpret Fort Langley prompted the provincial and municipal governments to cooperate in the construction of a new museum adjacent to the National Historic Site.

The Township-owned museum opened July 1, 1958 and housed a majority of the Native Sons collection. It was operated by volunteers until 1974 when it was selected by the Federal government as a site for one of 22 National Exhibition Centres across Canada. The physical plant doubled in size, its mandate was extended to include art, history and science traveling exhibitions and the first staff person was hired. Federal NEC operating funding was eliminated in 1994 but the museum has continued to respond to that expanded mandate. In 1991, the Museum became the core facility of the Community and Heritage Services Department, Planning, Development and Stewardship Division, Township of Langley.
Term Source: BCAUL

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