A polarizing chapter in Victoria's recent history will be featured in an exhibit at the Royal BC Museum this summer.
Curator Lorne Hammond visited Victoria's controversial tent city in August to speak with residents, who ultimately agreed to let him remove several items to preserve in the museum's archives.
Hammond says some of those artifacts will be featured as a small part of an exhibit next summer called, "Family: Bonds & Belonging."
"It's also interesting that the people who were part of tent city found themselves belonging to a sense of family. And they use that language a lot to describe their relationships with one another. And it wasn't all rosy -- There was violence and there were difficult moments and tragedy and criminal actions. All these things that are part of, really, the daily experience of living on the street."
The exhibit will be open next year from June 2 to October 31.