Vancouver Part Three

My sister decided to book a "Behind the Scenes" tour at the Vancouver Museum (MOV).

  Note: this is from their web site.

I was impressed with the sculpture of a crab, at the front of the building.....so I took a photo.

Notice, if you will that the claw seems to be grasping the Canadian flag.

Our tour guide met us at the reception desk and we walked through an area where they were creating the next exhibit (Wild Things).

We then went down to their storage facility, which is kept at a certain temperature and the air is filtered to protect everything.

As you can see, the animals were wrapped in plastic. This keeps them clean and dust free. 

This cabinet contains a stuffed Puffin and some kind of Tern or sea bird.

 
Here is part of a dragon costume (the head) that is worn at Chinese celebrations, such as the New Year.

 

Next we visited an area where a few birds were undergoing some repair work prior to being in the next exhibit.

After the tour, Leona and I sat on a park bench close to the Burrard Inlet to rest and have some lunch.
It was an enjoyable day, cool but sunny; so we walked along the multi-use path to Granville Island.
From there we took a little sea bus shuttle to the Olympic Villages, and caught the Sky Train back to East Vancouver and "The Drive".