SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
8888 University Drive V5A 1S6 Burnaby, BC, Canada

The SFU Museum's maritime archaeology collection has grown. Walter Toomey of Vancouver recently donated a scale model of HMS Victory, the flagship of British Admiral Horatio Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, to SFU’s Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (MAE) for its ship models collection. MAE Research Associate, and marine archaeologist, Rob Rondeau, noted that the Victory model is a welcome addition to the museum’s ship models collection. I’ll be using it as a visual teaching aid in my new 200-level Underwater Archaeology course, and, it is an important artifact in its own right. Pictured is student volunteer Sarah Woyken inspecting the scale-model of HMS Victory.

The SFU Museum's maritime archaeology collection has grown. Walter Toomey of Vancouver recently donated a scale model of HMS Victory, the flagship of British Admiral Horatio Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, to SFU’s Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (MAE) for its ship models collection. MAE Research Associate, and marine archaeologist, Rob Rondeau, noted that the Victory model is a welcome addition to the museum’s ship models collection. I’ll be using it as a visual teaching aid in my new 200-level Underwater Archaeology course, and, it is an important artifact in its own right. Pictured is student volunteer Sarah Woyken inspecting the scale-model of HMS Victory.

Did you know that the museum webpage has a resources section with GAMES, COLOURING BOOKS, TEACHING RESOURCES, and other helpful tools for keeping yourself and the kids busy at home? You can be a hero from your couch and do colouring pages at the same time! Or visit our virtual galleries to see the collections you miss most. http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/resources.html #games #colouringbooks #teachingtools #museum #stayathome #quarantine #quarantinekids #learning #sfumuseum #MAE

Did you know that you can visit the museum without leaving your couch? Explore the virtual exhibits while you #StayAtHome without breaking #quarantine. http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum.html

Student volunteer Nicole Davie is helping set up our new temporary pop-up exhibit for The Franklin Exploration, coming this September. Stay tuned for more exciting news!

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Research Associate Kate Kelley recently returned from the Kurdistan region of Iraq. She worked on excavations at the Neolithic site of Bestansur, pictured here. Welcome back, Kate! For more information on Bestansur, visit the UNESCO Tentative Lists at https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6172/. Photo courtesy of Kate Kelley.

Student Volunteer My name's Holly O'Neil and I'm going into my second year studying Archaeology at SFU. I started volunteering at the museum this summer and my work mostly consists of scanning and cataloging old slides donated to the museum by archaeologists over the years. So far I've come across quite a few historical photo collections that I'm interested in researching and putting on a website in the future for everyone to enjoy! My favourite artifact from the museum would have to be a past exhibit called 'Wayang Kulit', a collection of beautifully carved Indonesian shadow puppets.

Thanks to the team of grad students who moved a very long canoe back into storage from the gallery where it has been on exhibit. We are making way for a new pop up exhibit on the marine archaeology of the Franklin ships, coming soon!

Meet Chisa Aoki, one of our newest volunteers here at the museum. Chisa is a high school student on a two year exchange from Japan. She is interested in one day becoming an Archaeologist and is fascinated by ancient Egypt. Welcome abroad!

Throwback Thursday to the 1960's when this Totem Pole was lifted into our Museum here!

Rob Rondeau is a PhD student in the Department and has been a research associate at the Museum for two years now. He received a SSHRC Michael Smith travel grant which allowed him to go to Alaska earlier this month to study the oldest archaeological sites in North America. He'll be able to take what he learned there and apply it to his ongoing research looking for new archaeological sites on the Pacific Northwest Coast - both on land and underwater. He is pictured (first) standing beside the sign that marks the end of the famous 2,700 km Alaska (ALCAN) Highway, which extends from Dawson Creek, Yukon to Delta Junction, and was first built during World War II. In the second photo, he is pictured standing in a meter-square at a new pre-10,000 year old archaeological site in Central Alaska.

Congratulations to former SFU Museum Research Associate Kristen McLaughlin, Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto.

Congratulations to former SFU Museum Research Associate Jennifer Halliday, M.A. from the University of Windsor, and nominated for the Governor General's Gold Medal for academic achievement. Thesis: Multidimensions of Poverty: an analysis of the differential effects of racism and poverty on skeletal growt