Press Releases
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2023
Maritime Museum of BC Receives Federal Grant
24 January 2023
Maritime Museum of BC Receives $1M Donation – the Largest in Institution’s 68-year History
24 January 2023
New Bursary Opportunity for Programs at the Maritime Museum of BC
10 January 2023
2022
Exhibit Opening: Darn It! Our Maritime Make and Mend Culture Opens at the Maritime Museum of BC
24 October 2022
The Maritime Museum of BC Announces 1st Annual Crabtoberfest in Victoria, BC this November 5th!
10 October 2022
12 August 2022
MMBC Wishes a Happy 125th Birthday to 1897 Sailing Yacht Dorothy!
27 July 2022
MMBC Will Dance the Night Away at the Queer as Funk Spring Fling at the Bay Street Armoury
23 May 2022
Queer at Sea Exhibit Opens at the MMBC
9 May 2022
MMBC’s Victoria Classic Boat Festival Returns to the Inner Harbour
15 March 2022
Lieutenant Governor Will Present BC Maritime Achievement Awards
1 March 2022
MMBC Announces Queer at Sea Tales from the 2SLGBTQ+ Community Exhibit and Postcard Art Contest
5 January 2022
2021
Our Fleet Exhibit Opens at the Maritime Museum of BC
22 November 2021
The Maritime Museum of BC Announces 17th Annual Massive Marine Garage Sale This Fall
21 September 2021
The Maritime Museum of BC Opens at 744 Douglas St.
31 August 2021
The Maritime Museum of BC receives grant from the Naval Association of Canada
15 July 2021
The Maritime Museum of BC partners with Tradewinds Boaters Exchange at Canoe Cove Marina
22 June 2021
The Maritime Museum of BC reflects on its Origins and Prince Phillip’s Involvement
15 April 2021
The Maritime Museum of BC Withdraws from the Langford Development Plans
30 March 2021
Maritime Museum of BC Focused on the Future
11 March 2021
9 March 2021
Reminder: Exhibit Opening: SS Valencia: “A Theatre of Horror” Opens at the Maritime Museum of BC
8 March 2021
Exhibit Opening: SS Valencia: “A Theatre of Horror” Opens at the Maritime Museum of BC
1 March 2021
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RETIRES AFTER FIVE YEARS
25 February 2021
9 February 2021
The Maritime Museum of BC’s “Float the Boat” Fundraising Campaign has Two Months to Go
2 February 2021
2021 Beaver Medal Nominations Now Open
27 January 2021
The Maritime Museum of BC Launches the “Float the Boat” Fundraising Campaign
18 January 2021
2020
2020 Recipients of the Maritime Museum of BC SS BEAVER Award
24 November 2020
Unsolved Mystery of the Sinking of the SS Princess Sophia
21 October 2020
MARITIME MUSEUM OF BC MOVES FORWARD WITH NEXT PHASE OF THE PACIFIC MARITIME CENTRE
17 August 2020
The Maritime Museum of BC Re-Opens
15 July 2020
The Victoria Classic Boat Festival is Cancelled Due to COVID-19
2 July 2020
The Maritime Museum of BC Goes Virtual!
22 April 2020
25 February 2020
2020 Beaver Medal Nomination Now Open
8 January 2020
2019
The 2019 Maritime Museum BEAVER Medal Presentations
12 November 2019
Museum To Host Maritime Art Show at Government House
5 November 2019
Unmarked Graves to Receive Headstone at Ross Bay Cemetery
22 October 2019
Art Exhibit Opening: ‘Eyes Of Society – A Regionalist Perspective’
5 September 2019
42nd Annual Victoria Classic Boat Festival
27 August 2019
Film Screening: Manry at Sea – The Tinkerbell Story
15 May 2019
Maritime Museum of British Columbia Requests that 28 Bastion Square be Declared a BC Heritage Site
9 May 2019
Launch Event: Great Pacific Garbage Patch Exhibit at the Maritime Museum of BC
24 April 2019
16 April 2019
Exhibit Opening: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Opens at the Maritime Museum of BC
2 April 2019
26 February 2019
2019 Beaver Medal Nominations now open
21 February 2019
19 February 2019
PROPOSED CANADIAN MARITIME MUSEUM IN VICTORIA, BC
31 January 2019
David Suzuki will Open New Exhibit at the Maritime Museum of BC
17 January 2019
Reminder: Exhibit Opening: The Lost Fleet Opens at the Maritime Museum of BC
10 January 2019
Exhibit Opening: The Lost Fleet Opens at the Maritime Museum of BC
3 January 2019
2018
2018 Maritime Museum SS BEAVER Award Presentations
8 November 2018
7 November 2018
David Suzuki Opens new exhibit at MMBC David Suzuki Opens new exhibit at MMBC
30 October 2018
Maritime Museum of BC Unveils Plaque Commemorating the SS Princess Sophia
23 October 2018
Home Port Heroes of WWI and WWII Exhibit Opens at the Maritime Museum of BC
16 August 2018
Victoria Classic Boat Festival Welcomes Media Onboard
10 July 2018
18 June 2018
Victoria Classic Boat Festival Commemorates the Pacific Northwest during World War Two
15 June 2018
15 May 2018
Charting a New Course for the Maritime Museum of BC
2 May 2018
Season’s Final Nautical Nights Speaker Series, Featuring Tobi Elliott, on Thursday Night
24 April 2018
The Maritime Museum of British Columbia celebrates 15 years of the Massive Marine Garage Sale
17 April 2018
13 March 2018
Fifth Nautical Nights Speaker Series Featuring Robert Turner
20 February 2018
Fourth Nautical Nights Speaker Series Featuring Cherisse Du Preez
16 January 2018
The Maritime Museum of British Columbia is now accepting nominations for the 2018 SS Beaver Medal
15 January 2018
04 January 2018
2017
04 December 2017
Lieutenant Governor Will Present BC Maritime Achievement Awards
07 November 2017
The Memory Project Presentation at the Maritime Museum of BC this Remembrance Day
06 November 2017
The Sinking of the SS Princess Sophia
25 October 2017
Second Nautical Nights Speaker Series Featuring Colin and Julie Angus
17 October 2017
Refugium: Poems for the Pacific – Book Launch and Art Exhibition
26 September 2017
Maritime Museum of BC Launches New Speaker Series “Nautical Nights”
19 September 2017
Maritime Museum of BC Receives Funds from the Government of Canada for Travelling Exhibit
7 September 2017
Victoria Classic Boat Festival Celebrates 40 Years
28 August 2017
Maritime Museum of BC Launches Art Show A Boatbuilder’s Perspective by Tony Grove
16 May 2017
Maritime Museum of BC family passes now available at Greater Victoria Public Library
27 April 2017
Maritime Museum of BC Hosts Book Launch for Dr Elaine Gallagher
26 April 2017
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Paul Watson Launches Exciting New Book in Victoria
26 April 2017
Maritime Museum of BC Launches Online Library and Archives Catalogues
4 April 2017
Nominations Now Open for the SS Beaver Medal Award for Maritime Excellence
2 February 2017
Maritime Museum of BC Acquires a New Set of Captain Cook’s Published Journals
31 January 2017
2016
2016 Beaver Medal Presentation Ceremony
16 November 2016
Pass-It Around Holiday Season Special Offer
10 November 2016
Mysteries of the HMS Erebus – Special Victoria Event
26 September 2016
Summer of Discovery and John Horton
July 20, 2016
May 18, 2016
February 24, 2016