Fleming College’s Museum Management and Curatorship (MMC) students have renewed the Peterborough Museum and Archives’ (PMA) long-term exhibitions to be guest curators for a Victorian Era exhibition announced on Thursday.
MMC students after learning from two semesters will reimagine the PMA’s Victorian Era exhibition. The renewal includes key visual changes, decolonizing the exhibit narrative, contents and language and creating a more inclusive and diverse exhibition.
‘Welcome to Boomtown’ exhibition focuses 1860 through 1900 in Peterborough. It captures what life was like as the region and its surrounding Indigenous communities experienced growth, hardship and change according to a press release. Visitors will appreciate previously untold stories, view artifacts and archival materials from the PMA’s extensive collections and have new opportunities to interact with the exhibition, the region’s heritage and each other.
The exhibition opening takes place on Thursday from 2 – 4 p.m. at the Peterborough Museum and Archives, located at 300 Hunter St. E. in Peterborough. Admission is by donation.