The visionary creator of the Third Floor died just over a week before it was closed: https://www.change.org/p/save-the-third-floor-of-the-royal-bc-museum/u/30040740
4 days later, rather than acknowledging his death, the museum ironically chose to post this about the Old Town just a few days before they closed it:
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