Viewing Object

Object Description

Object Name

Transparency, Slide

Object ID

2017.048.041

Title

Langley Centennial Museum front entrance.

Date

[1995?].

Description

Colour slide of the entrance to the Langley Centennial Museum. The Museum's front entrance is a yellow building with white trim and a small covered area over the front door. The doors are dark wood. To the left and right of the entrance are the two sides of the Museum, with covered areas and benches underneath them. There are vines hanging from either side of the covered areas on the sides. In the middle is a small courtyard with a walkway, shrubs lining it on either side. There is a millstone in the courtyard on the left.

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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Argus v4.4.2.32 - Langley Centennial Museum