Say goodbye to the Canadian Museum of Civilization

[Posteritatis]

Since it's going to be nothing of the sort in a few years:

The Canadian Museum of Civilization, the country's largest museum, will be completely re-branded in anticipation of 2017 when the country celebrates 150 years since Confederation.

The museum is expected to be re-named the Canadian Museum of History, CBC News has learned, as part of a broader strategy that focuses on Canadian social and political history instead of past civilizations from around the world.

That means current international exhibits on Haiti and the Mayan civilization would no longer be displayed at the museum, which sits in Gatineau, Que., across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill.

Those exhibits will be moved to other museums in Canada.

(1) If Harper was going to gut a national museum he should've at least gone after the ROM's spectacularly toxic working environment, which might have actually done some good instead of this wankfest;

(2) Moved to which other museums, given the axe that fell earlier this year and the growing disdain for heritage as a whole,

(3) This whole thing's a Granatstein disciple's dream, and all the more vile because of it. Argh.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

1. Could be worse.

It could have become the Royal Creationism Museum.