Overview
This New National Museum Policy – Position Paper presents the collective position of the First Peoples’ Cultural Council (FPCC) and the British Columbia Museums Association (BCMA) on the urgent need for a new National Museum Policy (NMP) that centers on Indigenous rights and autonomy.
This paper was developed in response to current work being undertaken by the Government of Canada to review and modernize the existing NMP, which was created in 1972 and last updated in 1990.
FPCC and the BCMA have come together, walking alongside one another, to urge the Government of Canada to be fully engaged with and guided by the expertise of Indigenous Peoples, according to the principles of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and in alignment with the United Nations Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) throughout the process of developing a new NMP.
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The New National Museum Policy – Position Paper was co-published by the First Peoples’ Cultural Council’s Heritage Program and the British Columbia Museums Association