During its pandemic closure, the museum shifted to virtual content, but last week it once again welcomed visitors to the Commissariat.
The museum, located alongside the locks of the Rideau Canal next to Parliament Hill, is named after Colonel John By, the British military engineer who supervised construction of the Rideau Canal and founded Bytown, which would eventually become the City of Ottawa. For his contributions, the August civic holiday — which falls this year on Aug. 1 — is known as Colonel By Day in Ottawa.
On July 21, when the museum opened for the first time in more than two years, it was immediately disposed of. “To bring in this piece of opening the doors and welcoming people back inside, it feels great,” said Courtney Gehling, executive director of the Bytown Museum. “We’re a community at our heart and we’re here for the community.”Article content
The museum staff has now transferred online lessons to the museum’s in-person offerings, Gehling said. Part of that was adding QR codes beside artifacts directed to short videos describing the specific object, said Vogl.Article content “To me, seeing a picture of an artifact versus standing in front of it are two completely different things,” Vogl said. “You can go on Google and look up a picture of just about anything, but if you’re standing in the oldest building, you can see the stonework of the walls and the beams and you can actually see the artifacts within a context.”
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