The Richmond Museum’s engaging new exhibition, Richmond Kids, takes a trip down memory lane, exploring what it was like to grow up in Richmond in different times.

Quotations, photographs and objects from different decades bring to life diverse childhood experiences ranging from school days to buying candy at the local corner store to playing road hockey, Saturday morning language lessons, falling in ditches and adventures with family pets. The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, September 23 at 10 a.m. in conjunction with Culture Days activities at the Richmond Cultural Centre.

“The Richmond Museum’s newest exhibition looks at Richmond’s past through the eyes of children,” said Mayor Malcolm Brodie. “It will evoke memories for visitors of all ages. Family members can reminisce about how times or places have changed, however so much of childhood is the same.”

Visitors will get hands-on with interactive exhibits, testing themselves in a Richmond-based game of chutes and ladders, sharing favourite childhood memories, building imaginative structures with tiles and blocks, playing games of “I Spy” and hopscotch, creating colourful art and enjoying a quiet moment with a book in the story corner.

Richmond Kids runs from Saturday, September 23, 2023 to Sunday, August 25, 2024 at the Richmond Museum (7700 Minoru Gate), located in the Richmond Cultural Centre. Operating hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends. Admission is by donation.

For more information about the Richmond Museum, visit richmondmuseum.ca.

About the Richmond Museum

The Richmond Museum Society supports the Richmond Museum, a community museum that collects, documents, researches, preserves, exhibits and interprets objects of historical and cultural significance to the development and history of Richmond. The museum makes the history of Richmond relevant, engaging and accessible.