New Exhibit – Hope Meets Action

Hope Meets Action: Echoes Through the Black Continuum, a travelling exhibit created by the BC Black History Awareness Society in partnership with the Royal BC Museum, will be on display in our second-floor gallery starting March 7, 2026.

The exhibit reclaims and retells the complicated history of Black British Columbians, and traces an unbroken line of strength and resistance from the distant past to the present and into the future by highlighting the contributions of Black leaders whose actions echo across the centuries.

Hope Meets Action initially debuted in Clifford Carl Hall at the Royal BC Museum in 2021, and was met with an overwhelmingly positive public response. “We are pleased to continue to make this exhibit available publicly, said BCBHAS President, Silvia Mangue Alene. “This exhibit shares and promotes understanding of the history of Black settlers and their legacy, a legacy that contemporary Blacks in BC are very proud of.”