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North Vancouver museum in search of a new home

NORTH VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – It’s back to the drawing board for the North Vancouver Museum and Archives.

The museum now has to come up with a new home after council voted last week against moving it to a new waterfront location.

The plan was to move the museum to the old Pipe Shop building on the historic Wallace Shipyards site.

However, council voted against it last Monday, concerned about its viability, pointing to an independent assessment done by BDO Consulting in December.

A second motion, which did pass, called on staff to work with with the museum to find a new location and those consultations are set to begin this week.

“Well, the onus is on them,” says Sanford Osler, chair of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives Commission.

“I mean, we have several possibilities that we can think of but we don’t really know what their status is and, no, the city really has to take the lead on that.”

“There’s a couple of possibilities but we really don’t know whether they’re even available and what the situation is with them so the city has a much better understanding of that.”

Osler says a study done for the museum found the space would need to around 20,000 square feet in order to be suitable.

“We want it to be in an area that is high traffic, that’s accessible transit-wise,” he explains.

“We would like it to be near the waterfront, because that’s a historic center and the starting point for North Vancouver.”

He points out the archives would remain at their current home in Lynn Valley.

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