The Britannia Mine Museum is pleased to announce that its BOOM! Mill Show has won a prestigious TEA Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement (Museum Experience, Limited Budget category).
The award was announced at the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) Expo 2021 in Orlando, Florida.
The Thea Awards were founded in 1994 by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA), a global non-profit serving the visitor attractions industry, rewarding excellence projects.
“We are most honoured to receive this award for our BOOM! Mill show, especially amongst such renowned international attractions like Universal Studios and Disneyland Resorts,” says Cheryl Hendrickson, Executive Director of the Britannia Mine Museum.
BOOM! is the Britannia Mine Museum’s live-action, multi-sensory special effects story-telling experience that brings the historic 98-year-old Mill No. 3 building, a National Historic Site, back to life.
The theatrical spectacle transports visitors back in time to the 1920s when the Mine was booming as the largest copper producer in the British Commonwealth.
The show shares the magical story of the awe-inspiring 20-storey architectural marvel as one of North America’s last gravity-fed concentrator mills, as it processed precious minerals from the ore extracted from the mine.
“Our BOOM! Mill show is the culmination of a multi-year journey from inspiration to completion between the Museum’s staff and our Board of Directors,” says Leonie Tomlinson, Chair of the Britannia Mine Museum Board of Directors.
“This wouldn’t have been possible without the support and contribution of our Mining Industry, the Government of Canada, the Province of BC, as well as community partners who have all helped enable us to share the stories, history and significance of Britannia with the world.”
