Beyond the Unknown
Date: Sep 25
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Where: Harbour View Room
Beyond the Unknown: What’s Remembrance All About, Charlie Brown?
Dr. Dean Oliver will examine the patterns and opportunities within remembrance projects, examining how they do—and don’t—differ from commemoration. He will also discuss how major events and sites of memory can both enhance and complicate our understanding and appreciation of the past.
Tickets: $12 plus HST. Free for Rooms Members. Get your tickets online or by calling (709 )757-8090.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Oliver is a distinguished Canadian scholar and executive with more than 25 years of experience working in major museums and post-graduate institutions. Recognized as a leading public historian in Canada, he was most recently acting Director General and Vice President at the Canadian War Museum, on secondment from his post as Senior Director of Research at the Canadian Museum of History. Dr. Oliver, who joined Know History in September 2023, oversees museum and virtual exhibit projects while supporting colleagues in related initiatives.
Events & Programs
Taking inspiration from Toby Rabinowitz’s exhibition, A World Within A World, visitors can choose an animal silhouette provided by us and decorate it with brightly-coloured patterns using various shapes and materials.
Toby’s artwork is full of bright, imagined worlds with magical creatures and friends playing together. She says her work is for kids and happy adults – make sure you stop in to look for yourself in the art gallery on level 4.
What magical creature will you create?
Drop-in program – no registration is required.
Celebrating biodiversity! Get Hands on with our Province’s plants, animals and wild spaces at The Rooms with Nature NL!
Nature Nook is a monthly hands-on session to interact with real specimens like seal pelts, skulls, whale baleen, antlers, moose fur, and a variety of rocks and minerals. Join us to learn more about nature and ask our volunteers all your questions about Newfoundland and Labrador’s wildlife!
Included with cost of admission. Free for Rooms members.
Beaumont-Hamel and the Trail of the Caribou
In this exhibition, find out about the impacts of the First World War on Newfoundlanders and Labradorians and how events overseas dramatically altered our lives at home.
Each tour is approximately 30 – 40 minutes and is included in the cost of admission. Free for Rooms members.