The Exploration Place begins search for new CEO

PRINCE GEORGE—After twenty years at the helm, The Exploration Place is bidding farewell to it’s long-standing CEO, Tracy Calogheros.

Tracy began working with the Exploration Place in 1994. With a fine arts background, her initial role was the Museum’s Marketing and Graphics Coordinator where the institution underwent many changes and evolutions from the Fraser Fort-George Museum into the Exploration Place.

The museum’s board says her leadership and dedication have been instrumental in guiding the Museum through signficant expansion, working with Indigenous communities to provide local history, and numerous accolades that underscore the Exploration Place’s committment to excellence and reconciliation. While not being the largest institution in the country, The Exploration Place has served as a nationwide example of how a museum can work together with the First Nation on whose territory it is located.

“The Fraser-Fort George Museum was a very different place in 1994 than it is today,” says Tracy, reflecting on on the museum’s humble beginnings. “But even then, the Museum had a seat for the Lheidli T’enneh on its board, and it was that visionary approach to reconciliation before anyone had even heard the word that has shaped this award-winning, community-centred approach to museum work.”