FAMILY STORIES, TREASURED MEMORIES

Family Stories, Treasured Memories showcases the work of Toronto middle school students as they explore their family migration stories. The exhibition displays migration experiences from a range of time periods and countries of origin, offering a glimpse of the diversity that makes up contemporary Toronto.

Curator: Jennifer Harrington
Project Team: Britt Braaten, Lisa Dillon, Winston Loui, Jaime SooSee, Pasang Thackchhoe
Production and Design: Ceneda Creative Services

This project was made possible through the generous support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Additional information: The exhibit comprises five two dimensional freestanding panels and requires approximately 20-25 feet of floor space for display. Each panel measures 39 3/8” x 86” (100cm x 218cm). All necessary hardware is included.

Cost to borrow: Please contact us directly for more information.

Reflections is the touring companion of the 1987 exhibition, But Women did Come.150 Years of Chinese Women in North America. Drawing on experiences that span several generations, the photo exhibit explores the struggles and victories of Chinese women who forged a path for others to follow. Images of Chinese Women in Canada premiered the Macao Museum of Art in 2004.

Curator: Dora Nipp
Assistant Curator: Hilary Chance
Production and Design: Winston Loui, Suyin Fong Looui and Jaime Soo See.

The MHSO gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Colourgenics Inc. in the production of this exhibit.

Additional information:
Panels are light-weight silk-screened in aluminum frames, and are wired. There are 27 panels. Portrait panels are 38 inches (h) x 30 inches (w). Landscape panels are 20 inches (h) x 30 inches (w).

Cost to borrow: Please contact us directly for more information.

From 1978 to 1981, several hundred thousand Vietnamese fled the repercussions of the Vietnam war. From Vietnam to Canada celebrates the challenges and successes of some of the 50,000 Vietnamese immigrants who settled in Canada, and examines the ways in which they've contributed to Canadian society.

Curator: Jennifer Bonnell
Research: Jennifer Bonnell and Le Dieu Tran
Production and Design: Ceneda Creative Services

Additional Information:
This exhibit comprises five panels mounted on light-weight foam core. Panels are 28 inches (w) x 42 inches (h). Hardware is not included.

Cost to Borrow: $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Many Rivers to Cross examines immigration, culture, struggle for justice, work and community among people of African descent living in Canada. View the online version of the exhibit. Curator: Sheldon Taylor

Additional Information:
The exhibit comprises 95 framed images, and 11 text panels and labels. Please contact us directly for further details.

Cost to borrow: $150.00 plus shipping and handling

OTHER EXHIBITS

The community of Agincourt has changed dramatically during the past 70 years. Through interviews completed with 48 newer and long-time residents, Agincourt: A Community History, traces this change and recounts Agincourt's development into an urban, multicultural community. Opened in 2002, we are pleased to announce the project was awarded the Oral History Association's Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award as an outstanding oral history project. Agincourt: A Community History was a partnership project between the MHSO and the City of Toronto Culture Division's Scarborough Historical Museum.

Seeing Our Surroundings is a participatory exhibit project. It explores the meaning of neighbourhood, community and place among students and teachers at Oakwood Collegiate Institute with the assistance from museum community cultural workers representing the MHSO. Learn more... Seeing Our Surroundings was a community partnership project between the MHSO and Oakwood Collegiate Institute (Toronto District School Board) in 2001.

Growing Cultures examines Toronto's gardens as an expression of culture and reflection of the city's cultural diversity. The gardens presented in the exhibition are planned and maintained by recent and long-standing immigrant gardeners for their families. Growing Cultures takes a look at just a few of the countless gardeners who enrich the neighbourhoods of the Greater Toronto Area. Click here to view a brief write-up. Growing Cultures was presented by the MHSO and the Royal Ontario Museum in May of 2000.

Safe Haven explores the refugee experiences of five families from Chile, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Somalia and from the former Czechoslovakia. View the exhibit's online version. Safe Haven was presented by the MHSO and the Royal Ontario Museum.