HISTORY MATTERS
Revelstoke Museum and Archives was pleased to hear recently that a podcast series featuring one of its exhibits on the Virtual Museum of Canada was the winner of a prestigious award.
The Virtual Museum of Canada and Sound Venture Productions won the Gold Award for Best Podcast in the Education Category in competition with radio stations, networks and independent producers from over 30 countries who submit their best radio programming each year to the festival.

HISTORY MATTERS is a series of five stories in French and English, selected from community memories exhibits housed on virtualmuseum.ca that refer back to the richness of these exhibits, and of their historical relevancy for Canadians.  By creating these clips, the hope is to make casual listeners more aware of Canadian history in all of its unique diversity.

The first HISTORY MATTERS podcast produced was “The Last Spike” based on stories and photographs from “Getting Here From There” an online exhibit produced by Revelstoke Museum and Archives for the Community Memories program of the Virtual Museum of Canada.  Community Memories provides a forum for museums to share their community stories with the world through online exhibits.  “Getting Here From There – Transportation in the Revelstoke District” explores the difficulties of setting up transportation routes through this mountainous region.  Through photographs and stories, the exhibit looks at First Nations land use, the explorations of David Thompson and other explorers, the coming of the railway, steamboat service on the waterways and the creation of highways. 
Link to HISTORY MATTERS podcasts
http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/nouvelles-news/anglais-english/?cat=236
Link to Getting Here From There Community Memories exhibit
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm_v2.php?lg=English&ex=00000667&fl=0&id=exhibit_home

Revelstoke Museum & Archives now has a Blog!
Curator Cathy English (that's Me) & other Staff will use this blog to update you on
museum and archives and events and news, and we'll throw in tidbits of local history.

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