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The objects on display are all part of someone else’s story.


Or our alarm codes will not work, as though to prevent us from leaving just long enough to make us start to feel the panic. Sometimes toilets seem to flush by themselves. Common stories from staff include hearing children’s laughter or voices (muffled and far away). Te presumption is that a school group is on-site for a visit but more than a few of us have been surprised to discover later that there had been no schools or visits that day. Some of us have come across obvious and distinguishable, yet unexplainable, scents or odours: flowers, wood smoke, baking, cat urine. Tere they are, as sure as day, and then they are no more. Te smell of wood smoke has sent us scrambling from room to room, floor to floor, looking for a source of fire or a trail of smoke. But there is always noth- ing. And then we wonder if maybe we imagined it.


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Tose of us who work at Le Mu- sée are lucky to be entrusted with the maintenance, care and sharing of a truly special building. One that is not only a place of stories in its own right, but also one that exhibits, houses and curates a collection of over 30,000 objects that have each been part of someone else’s story. Are there ghosts here? We just don’t


know. What you will find here is a re- spect for those who learned, worked, suffered, healed, lived or died here; for those whose personal belongings we now care for and also for those whose stories we tell. Tat respect guides us in our stewardship, in our storytelling and in everything we do and say here on a daily basis, because we are the current keepers. And maybe also because, well, you just never know… Vania Gagnon has been the director of Le Musée for the past eight months.


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