CEO of beleaguered Royal B.C. Museum resigns after 16 months

The CEO of the Royal B.C. Museum stepped down after nearly a year-and-a-half on the job.

The Victoria-based provincial museum’s board announced CEO Alicia Dubois’s resignation on Friday afternoon.

The change comes a year after the B.C. NDP government scrapped a proposed $800-million renovation and modernization of the facility last June, after coming under fire for weeks from the Opposition.

Board chair Leslie Brown told CBC News the decision to resign was Dubois’s, and that the board maintained confidence in her work.

“She was not pushed out in any way, it was her decision to leave,” Brown said in an interview Saturday.

“She was given a mandate after the museum project — the rebuild —

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