• Expansion and improvement to renew and transform the visitor experience
• Engage with a new landscape and improved entrance sequence
• A generous free space, a year round community living room, a potential venue for political and social events, a beacon, and should provide a taste of a fuller Museum experience.
• Optimising ground floor space and improving revenue operations
• Creating opportunities to connect schools
• First project? How to deliver immediate impact without curtailing the medium and long term needs of the Museum
• Relocating temporary exhibits to ground floor and completing the BC ‘story’ makes great sense, enables greater opportunities for world class exhibitions
• A new venue for a major exhibition that reunites BC’s cultural heritage for British Columbians in 2017, that will draw on private and public collections worldwide
• Promotion of Emily Carr – a permanent space for a local artist with international appeal
• Resolution of circulation – telling the story through a meaningful and legible journey
• An inspiring orientation space in conjunction with the lobby that showcases chosen collections; a ‘great hall’
• Seismic upgrade, building envelope condition and preservation risk well documented
• Reused as part of a conference, café, retail, auditorium building after retrofit
• Significant investments will be required to re-purpose archive building
• Combined with an improved lobby experience investment could significantly contribute to the overall improvement to the visitor experience, education, family album possibilities and research facilities
• Relocation of archive facilities to either Fannin or new purpose built accommodation
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Seismic upgrade, building envelope condition and preservation risk well documented
• Floor-to-floor heights and column grid inefficiencies make the building 50% less efficient than purpose built collections storage
• Significant investments will be required to re-purpose Fannin Building
• These investments may not contribute to the visitor experience and functionality
• Seismic upgrade + extend floor plates + re-clad + hvac = significant investment; VFM?
• Other uses; archive, consolidated administration, rental/3rd party
• Space need should continue to be challenged – It’s also about efficiency and consolidation; Growth needs to be managed
• Currently Royal BC Museum occupies 310,061 sf (28,816 SM)
• Space increase (need) reduces by half if collections are re-purposed in new ‘fit-for-purpose’ building
• Long term strategy vs. Initial impact / game-changing project – tension or opportunity?
• Improved environmental conditions and carbon use; energy, water and waste – improved revenue and operating costs