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It’s September 2025, welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond.

Summer Wrap-Up News Stories 2025: 

• Summer students integral to running of museum program | Northern News
• Summerland Museum hooks up fully functional telegraph machine to communicate with other museums in BC and Alberta - Castanet.net
• Lost for over a century, Heiltsuk Nation celebrates return of bentwood box | Globalnews.ca 
• 'The wrong history': After 110 years and a mislabelling, Tla'amin artifacts return home
• Historic Japanese triplexes restored at B.C.’s oldest surviving cannery - Terrace Standard
• Rare ‘medieval’ artifacts found in B.C. thrift store donated to SFU for study
• Renewal Project — Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre

This has been Muse News for Summer 2025! If you have news you want to share on this program, please email us at bcma@museum.bc.ca. Join us in October for another episode of MuseNews, where we explore the latest news, announcements, and happenings from museums across bc and beyond!

BCMA thanks Digital Museums Canada for their sponsorship.