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Songs in the square Tanya Semple, who performs under the stage name Elder Sister Plum, plays for a noon hour crowd in Centennial Square next to city hall. The lunchtime concert is one of the 2015 Summer In The Square events. The noon hour concerts are held every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday until Sept. 11. Don Denton/Victoria News
Maritime Museum finds temporary place to call home Federal grant money to assist
“The Nootka Court location will allow public access to our resources.”
Bastion Square,” said board chair Clay Evans. The museum took over the space at 634 Humboldt St.(located across from the Empress Hotel,) on July 1 and will be completed in three phases: the fit out which is being done now; the second phase is the moving of larger objects followed by establishing the administrative offices, a research lab and a gift shop.
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The Maritime Museum of B.C. is opening a society office and exhibit space in the Inner Harbour, but have yet to find a home for the more than 35,000 artifacts that have been homeless for months. On Tuesday, the Maritime Museum of B.C. Society Board announced it is leasing a 3,600-square foot space in Nootka
Court to be used as a society office and small exhibition space. “It will be a place where not only the MMBC Society and its members can meet but also where other local organizations such as classic boat, tall ships, underwater archaeological society, Thermopylae club, Race 2 Alaska and others can come together as was the case at 28
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