Refuge Canada is now open at the Museum of Vancouver until February 2, 2024

Exhibition allows visitors to explore Canada’s place in the global refugee crisis

SPONSORED POST BY Museum of Vancouver

Refuge Canada exhibition. Photo by Christian Zane Clado

Featuring images, soundscapes, first-person accounts, and artifacts, the powerful exhibition Refuge Canada is now open to the public at the Museum of Vancouver until February 2, 2024.

Moving through major waves of arrival from World War II up to present day, Refuge Canada calls into question preconceptions about what it means to be a refugee, balancing hopeful stories of success with fearful accounts and Canada’s mixed record in welcoming refugees.

The exhibition will draw audiences through five themes: Life Before, Fear, Displacement, Refuge, and Life in Canada, with hands-on opportunities to connect with the content. Visitors can crawl inside a UN Refugee Agency tent, find room in an inflatable boat similar to those used by refugees fleeing from Turkey to Greece, look out a plane window as the shores of Canada approach, and more.

Refuge Canada was produced by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. More information is available here.

Post sponsored by Museum of Vancouver.

Refuge Canada exhibition. Photo by Christian Zane Clado