Dawson City Museum Project

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The Dawson City Museum Project is a collaboration between the Dawson City Museum and Robin Nelson to document the Museum’s history in relation to government policy and community action.

The Dawson City Museum’s 60^th anniversary is coming up, providing a great opportunity to both commemorate the Museum and critically reflect on its practices. More broadly, there are gaps in our understanding of community museums, their needs, and relationships to both government and community in what is now known as Canada. The Project aims to commemorate the Museum and address these gaps thanks to support from MacEwan University’s Community Engaged Scholarship Grant.

The Project involves document analysis and archival research on the Museum, community, and government policy. Current and former museum employees and volunteers are also being interviewed.

In 2022, we will release a podcast miniseries on the Museum and its history in time to celebrate its anniversary! There will also be updates posted as blog posts on an ongoing basis and, potentially, academic articles.

If you have any questions or would like to participate in the research, please contact Robin at nelsonr34@macewan.ca.

DCM Project Blog Post Index

Working Papers

Chronological

Dawson City’s Community Attic: The Development of the Dawson City Museum from the 1950s to 1972

The Importance of People: The Dawson City Museum in the 1970s

Territorial Interest and Investment: The Dawson City Museum in the 1980s

A Community Hub: The Dawson City Museum in the 1990s

Working to Connect: The Dawson City Museum in the 21st Century

Thematic

Inexpensive and Impressive but Challenging and Restrictive: A Consideration of Non-profit Museum Management in a Historic, Government-Owned Space

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