Vancouver’s most well-known condo marketer has teamed up with the Royal BC Museum to open a new gallery in Chinatown.
On Thursday, Royal BC Museum CEO Pauline Rafferty and Rennie Marketing Systems principal Bob Rennie unveiled plans for a satellite gallery in Vancouver’s historic Wing Sang building.
The building, which is also home to Rennie’s art collection and his business, was built in 1889 for a prominent Chinese-Canadian importer-exporter.
The new gallery represents the first time in its 125-year history that the Royal BC Museum has opened a satellite location.
The museum said the gallery would display human and natural history collections from the province’s museum and archives.
“The Royal BC Museum at Wing Sang is due to the generous philanthropy of our sustaining patron, Rennie Marketing Systems,” said Rafferty.
The Wing Sang building has undergone extensive restoration in recent years, and Rennie called the new gallery the perfect “bookend” to his own contemporary art collection.
“We are all looking forward to welcoming the community into this space next summer,” said Rennie.
Joel McKay
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