Royal British Columbia Museum

John McAslan + Partners produced a masterplan for the strategic development of the celebrated but experientially outdated Royal British Columbia Museum, which was founded in 1886 and possesses more than 7 million historic objects, artefacts and records, and a major First Nations Collection. The Museum and its impressive harbourside site suffered from failing infrastructure and outdated galleries, which compromised the museum's public pulling-power as well as the quality of the visitor experience. The practice’s proposals, included the design of a new state-of-the-art collections tower, and rationalised the programming of the site and its buildings to define a visitor-friendly and forward-looking environment, creating the impetus to carry the Museum into the future with renewed cultural dynamism.