Big Blue

Blue Whale skeleton hanging above the gallery at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at UBC.

Reminders

"These everyday objects, mute and intimate, are scarred by profound trauma which will never belong to the past."

Haunting photo exhibit by Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako of objects, clothing and other items left behind by the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, now preserved at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Cancer

Apparently it took 3 months to weld all the pieces together to make Mr Crabby here.

Old-timey

This time New Westminster Daily Photo ventures north, just into the city of Burnaby on a visit to the Burnaby Village Museum. The museum is a collection of 1900-1950 era buildings depicting the history of this area. It's celebrating its 40th anniversary, and to celebrate admission is free all summer long!

Lacey

According to the New West Parks & Rec website, Irving House (built at the time by Captain William Irving, a shipping magnate) was once described like this in the "British Columbian" newspaper, April 1865:

"…the handsomest, the best and most home-like house of which British Columbia can yet boast..."

It's now a museum showing off what was once the best in Victorian and colonial British architecture of that era.

Kaboom

This one of three cannons guarding this area of town. Watch for the others in a future post!

Regiment-ed

The Royal Westminster Regiment Historical Society and Museum on Queens Avenue near City Hall. The Royal Westminster Regiment is an active Army Reserve battalion, with units currently stationed in Afghanistan.

This is the regiment after whose mid-19th century soldiers the world's largest tin soldier at the New Westminster Quay was designed.