The Exploration Place has appointed Alyssa Leier as its new executive director. Leier will be taking over for Tracy Calogheros, who is retiring after 20 […]
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Carrier Sekani Family Services (CSFS), the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society (Caring Society), and The Exploration Place, in partnership with Lheidli T’enneh First […]
BY ROBYN CURTIS The Exploration Place The Exploration Place is delighted to announce that Katherine Scouten, a dedicated and passionate volunteer, has been inducted as […]
The Fraser-Fort George Museum Society, which operates Exploration Place in Prince George, has asked the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George to consider the provision of […]
The Exploration Place (Fraser-Fort George Museum Society) is inviting applications from enthusiastic and dedicated community members to join its board of trustees. The non-profit organization […]
A new travelling exhibition is coming to The Exploration Place. Opening March 2, Refuge Canada explores Canada’s place in the global refugee crisis. Through images, […]
The Exploration Place is bidding farewell to its long-serving CEO, Tracy Calogheros, who is retiring after an extraordinary 30-year tenure at the museum, with 20 […]
The Exploration Place is strategically adjusting its hours of operation for the season. Beginning Tuesday, January 23, the museum will welcome guests from Thursday to […]
A presentation was made to Prince George city council by representatives from Exploration Place in regards to funding support for the Little Prince Train. The […]
The holiday season is right around the corner, and Origins Kitchen in The Exploration Place is excited to announce a series of unique, pre-Christmas events […]
One year after reopening following the completion of the Living Evolutions project, The Exploration Place is celebrating the facility’s successful relaunch, the creation of a […]
The Exploration Place has been offering school programming to classrooms across northern B.C.since 2001. Thanks to an $80,000 grant from the Drax Foundation, school visits […]
Get ready for a summer filled with hands-on, minds-on fun as The Exploration Place brings back the highly anticipated Science Alliance Summer Day Camps! After […]
Canadian women performed crucial and often dangerous tasks during both world wars, from manufacturing munitions to hand-painting artificial eyes for wounded servicemen. The Exploration Place […]
On Thursday, May 4, The Exploration Place’s Assistant Curator – Indigenous Content, Joshua Seymour, kicked off The Exploration Place’s first GenAction project at Foothills Elementary. […]
The Exploration Place is currently conducting research to inform its upcoming strategic planning session in May 2023. This is so important in its evolution. Research […]
Origins Kitchen at The Exploration Place has unveiled a pilot project that allows participants to create a grazing board for two in a Valentine’s Day […]
About seven years ago, the Maiyoo Keyoh Society discovered a traditional headdress was on display at a museum in eastern Canada. The headdress was taken […]
The grand re-opening of The Exploration Place Museum and Science Centre in Prince George is set for Saturday, October 29. Initially, The Exploration Place was […]
The Witness Blanket is an art installation created by master carver Carey Newman. It is a monument that recognizes the atrocities of the Indian residential […]
It’s been over two years since we’ve heard that telltale train whistle emanating from Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park. Save for the Thanksgiving weekend of 2021, […]
Harjit Sajjan was in Prince George Thursday and he brought his chequebook. Or more aptly, Ottawa’s chequebook. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible […]
Supply chain issues and labour shortages have delayed the grand re-opening of The Exploration Place Museum and Science Centre in Prince George. For the past […]
March is Women’s History Month, a month to focus on gender equality and the contributions of women of the past, the present, and the future. […]
March is Women’s History Month, a month to focus on gender equality and the contributions of women of the past, the present, and the future. […]
March is Women’s History Month, a month to focus on gender equality and the contributions of women of the past, the present, and the […]
March 8 is International Women’s Day, and the theme for 2022 is #BreakTheBias. We break the bias every day here at The Exploration Place, and […]
The Exploration Place is closing its pop-up location in Pine Centre Mall from at 8 p.m. Thursday December 23 until at least January 4. Given […]
The Exploration Place has missed its visitors just as much as the community has missed walking through our doors to experience exhibits, participate in programs, […]
The Exploration Place is inviting the community to “Explore Once More.” The museum has missed its visitors just as much as the community has missed […]
The Exploration Place team is proud to be a part of the Canadian Red Cross and Health Canada’s Stop the Spread and Stay Safe! program. […]
You might have noticed something unusual if you happened to be taking a stroll through Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park these last few weeks. A small […]
The Little Prince is back this weekend. “Oh boy have we missed all of you,” said Tracy Calogheros, CEO of the Exploration Place and the […]
The Exploration Place Museum + Science Centre’s CEO, Tracy Calogheros, was honoured with the outstanding career achievement award at the CASCADES, awarded annually by the […]
BY TRACY CALOGHEROS The Exploration Place I was angry. Really angry. “How” my internal voice screamed, “could Elections Canada possibly think that it was acceptable, […]
By now, we are mostly all in agreement that “kids these days” don’t spend enough time outside. We know that many kids, even those who […]
Science centres are among Canadians’ most trusted sources for accurate, fact-based information. Therefore, it is imperative that science centres like The Exploration Place follow up-to-date, […]
BY TRACY CALOGHEROS CEO, The Exploration Place “Why is the Museum still closed?” is a refrain I am starting to hear more as the world […]
When thinking about the Prince George area, one of the last things that comes to mind is that this area was once a stomping ground […]
The Lheidli T’enneh First Nation today announced that the Memorial to the 215 children found in an unmarked grave at the Kamloops residential school two […]
The memorial to the 215 children found at the Kamloops Residential School currently on display at Prince George City Hall will be moved to The […]
The Exploration Place and the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation enjoy a close relationship based on mutual trust, built over 25 years of working together. We […]
Museums, by their very existence, are products of colonialism. The first museums were created as venues to house and display the collections of elite men […]
This week is another tumultuous one. The first federal and provincial budgets delivered during a pandemic, the anxiety of the weekend’s COVID numbers and further […]
The Exploration Place has announced a new national project that your museum is a key partner in. Together with the Discovery Centre in Halifax, Science […]
Even though The Exploration Place is closed, a lot is going on behind the scenes. One of the most exciting projects we are working on […]
Prince George has a rich and sometimes controversial history, some of the most interesting parts not well-known among its population. Not many people are aware […]
As with almost every sector, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted museums around the world. We might think of arts and culture as “nice to […]
The current situation world-wide has landed many of us on our couches and in our home offices, leaving many people feeling cut off from each […]
Closing a museum and then figuring out what staff needs to do to reopen is pretty much the definition of “building the plane while you’re […]
Calling all future scientists, inventors, and innovators aged 11-13 – if you love all things Science, Tech, Engineering, Arts/Design, and Math (STEAM), then you’ll want […]
The Exploration Place board of trustees along with the centre’s management have decided to delay re-opening the facility until the spring of 2021. The museum […]
The Exploration Place launched its Nature Exchange Online on Canada Day which will provide family friendly activities for the summer, made possible [in part] by […]
As our economy begins to reopen Canada’s top medical professionals are recommending that all of us who can, wear non-medical masks to help prevent the […]
The Exploration Place Museum and Science Centre, which closed March 13 due to physical distancing guidelines, remains closed. “While all of us hoped to be […]
Effective today, March 13, at the close of business, The Exploration Place Museum and Science Centre will be closing to the public and for all […]
The Jeanne Clarke Award for Outstanding Service in the field of local history was awarded to The Exploration Place and the late Mary Gouchie for […]
The Exploration Place is once again receiving national attention for its exhibits, this time as part of a TV series called Dino Trails. The Dino […]
Fees are going up at The Exploration Place and it is pointing to a minimum wage increase as the reason why. The minimum wage is […]
The Exploration Place’s annual Rotten Pumpkin Festival, featuring old pumpkins being catapulted across the museum’s parking lot, has been cancelled. The weather forecast is calling […]