European city museums-some bike stuff,etc.

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True, the reality is that unless we always include aboriginal history in each of our city museums in North America, a number of European cities have way longer history and it shows. North American colonization started significantly..in 1600's, 1500's in North America...???

I'll be impressed if Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal demonstrate the Bronze Age in our city history museums. I'm not talking about specialist museums like the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver which has a terrific, newly retrofitted building and collection on Northwest Coast aboriginal history and culture. It's not a city museum in content scope, it covers a whole region.

Aboriginal history is complicated because it depends on the different groups and to properly showcase their history..through their voice/lens which is abit different from non-aboriginal lens/voice/interpretation. To do it properly within city museum space on municipal space, would require alot more room. Of course it could be justifiably argued their history should not be conceptually defined by colonized boundaries of any Canadian municipality.

This is gettin' theoretical. But not surprising, when each First Nations group in Metro Vancouver area defines themselves more by First Nation group name, not by a Vancouver neighbourhood.

Hope you have a look how I wrote it up.