The public will have to wait a little longer to see what the Richmond Olympic Oval Museum will look like.
A design theme unveiling scheduled to be done early last month was to coincide with a Canadian Olympic Committee board meeting locally.
But a change had to be made when some of the board members had scheduling conflicts that forced the meeting to be moved back to Toronto at the last minute.
City of Richmond spokesman Ted Townsend said efforts are being made to reschedule the event with the COC, but details have not been finalized.
The oval museum is a $5 million project intended to celebrate the role the facility played during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games hosting long track speed skating, plus the accomplishments of local sport.
Funding for the museum, the first in the Americas to become an official member of the Olympic Museums Network, comes from Oval Corporation capital reserve ($1.5 million), the province's tourism coffers ($2.5 million), and sponsorships ($1 million) with another estimated $250,000 expected in the next five years.
Initially, the museum display was expected to be a modest one. But according to oval officials, the scale and quality of the original concept did not match the city and oval's expectations.
Visitors are now expected to be treated to a host of high-tech, interactive displays.
Fall of 2013 was the initial opening date. Now it's been pushed back to fall of 2014.
