Development of an Information Sharing Platform for a Virtual Manitoba Oil Museum

This research project will organize and develop museum exhibits for a virtual Manitoba Oil Museum, using materials collected over the years by the museum as well as the dissemination of a PhD thesis on the Place of Oil in Manitoba. There is very little information in Manitoba broadly about the oil extraction that has been occurring since the 1950’s so this virtual museum would provide a site for sharing stories to a broader audience. This project plans to share a diversity of perspectives and experiences of living with oil extraction, to provide a more nuanced view into the struggles, benefits and costs of those in south-western Manitoba, particularly as dialogue around climate change and energy transition (including divestment from oil and gas extraction) becomes more important. The benefit to the partner organization, the Manitoba Oil Museum, will be to have a full-time coordinator to arrange and bring into being a site for sharing these stories and artifacts.

Faculty Supervisor:

John Sinclair

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Partner:

Manitoba Oil Museum

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Manitoba

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