Museum Without Walls - Vernon, BC
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N 50° 15.830 W 119° 16.435
11U E 337936 N 5570439
This box has been decorated with pictures of one of the downtown Vernon Murals.
Waymark Code: WMN6WP
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 01/06/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member DougK
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This utility box is on the northwest corner of Highway 97 and 30th Avenue. On it are reproductions of one of Vernon's more famous downtown murals. The mural depicted is a block west and a block south from the box.

Museum Without Walls is K's favorite. Must be flash backs from years ago when he worked as an apple picker and later planted trees and installed a new irrigation system. I remember well the first day I was picking apples; I fell off the box I used to stand on and broke my leg. Lucky me, no more apple picking for that season.
By B, from our Museum Without Walls Waymark.

Downtown Vernon is host to 27 murals, all of them very professional. The largest is 300 by 40 feet in size - that's a lot of paint. Each depicts a different aspect of local historical life or a historic event or person or place. More about the mural below.
Museum Without Walls

3300 Coldstream Avenue

This is a very unique mural because it uses a technique called Trompe L’oeil or Trick of the Eye. The mural shows a little boy looking through a broken wall into a museum, that has a mural on display. The inner mural is one of women working in an orchard during WWI. The mural is so realistic that parking stops were painted right in to keep cars from hitting the wall.

Lead Artist: Michelle Loughery

Contributing Artists:
Leah Bernhardt
Anita Dekok
Shelley Dove
Allison Florence
Jaime Hall
Cyan Kregosky
Meghan Lee
Amber Murnane
Kim Neuhaus

The very first mural was created in the fall of 1998 and over the course of the next 15 years the lead artist, along with local youth, painted an additional 27 murals.

Downtown Vernon’s outdoor art gallery was made possible through funding from HRDC, investment by downtown businesses and local organizations, as well as the City of Vernon.

The Vernon Museum and Archives provided original content and photos.

The murals are visited by hundreds of people each year and continue to be a wonderful way to tell Vernon’s story.
From the Downtown Vernon Murals
Name of Artist: Michelle Loughery et al

Title of the Art: Museum Without Walls

Year Decorated: Not listed
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