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It may not be world-famous, but the Peachland Museum is all ours…
An old FAVOURITE returns By John McDonald
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Staff Reporter
o what do the world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris, the largest of its kind in the world, and the not-soworld-famous Peachland Museum have in common? John McDonald photo Let us count the ways. The Peachland Museum has fully reopened after a two-year renovation. Both museums are located royal personages’ personal art the Peachland Museum was in buildings that have played collections. The Peachland Mubuilt as a church in 1910. different roles throughout the seum has never housed a king Expanded many times in the years, in effect artifacts themselves. or a queen, so far as is known. intervening centuries, the fortress The Louvre was a medieval Both museums are located Louvre eventually became a fortress originally constructin distinctive buildings with the royal palace, home to the various ed in the 12th century while
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Peachland Museum in arguably a more unusual space, an eight-sided former Baptist church. Items contained with the Louvre’s vast exhibit space amount to over half a million while the Peachland Museum houses significantly less, several thousand at best. Still, the Peachland Museum has one display that visitors to the Louvre will never see: the extenSEE MUSEUM PAGE 7
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