 This project ultimately failed but it did result in the current display of totem poles in Stanley Park which remain one of the most photographed tourist attractions in Vancouver.In 1930 the museum sponsored an extensive series of archaeological excavations of the Marpole Midden which was one of the most important archaeological sites on the Pacific Northwest Coast but was also an unceded ancestral territory of the Musqueam First Nation and was where the village of c̓əsnaʔəm (Musqueam Marpole Village Site) had been located.The outcome of this has been dealt with in the award-winning exhibition "c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city", a joint project between the Musqueam Indian Band, the Museum of Vancouver and the Museum of Anthropology.