T-Shirts + Turtles: Journeys to the Island of Erub
In May 2018, Carol Mayer visited the island of Erub, in the Torres Strait, north of Australia, to document the creation of Eip Kor Korr, a sculpture made of synthetic fishing nets.
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Learn MoreFrom Vancouver: The westbound 4, 14, 25, 33, R4, 44, 49, 84, 99 B-Line, and 480 buses arrive at UBC. Get off at the last stop and walk northwest. See detailed directions.
Once at UBC Exchange, you can also transfer to the 68 Wesbrook Village bus instead of walking to MOA. Get off at NW Marine Dr at West Mall. Full transit information at the Translink website.
From Downtown Vancouver: Cross the Burrard or Granville Street bridges, and then head west on 4th Avenue, Broadway, 10th Avenue or 16th Avenue all the way to UBC.
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Please note that this route involves a significant hill, and that Mobi bike shares do not have stations at UBC.
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Everyone Says I Look Like My Mother
Everyone Says I Look Like My Mother
Tibet Through Images
པར་རིས་ནང་གི་བོད།
Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art
Enjoy a night of immersive storytelling at MOA in honour of Black Futures Month.
MOA • Free with museum admission (half-price admission after 5 pm on Thursdays)
Join MOA each month for our new art-making series for adults, Art Club at MOA.
Cedar Café at MOA • Free (museum admission not required)
Celebrate the Family Day weekend by bringing your family to MOA on Sunday, February 15 for a day of museum fun.
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For more than three decades, Elder Larry Grant has been a guiding presence at MOA. A respected Musqueam Elder, educator, and knowledge keeper, he has…
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Learn about MOA’s newest touchable object, Qap’u’luq-John Marston’s Harbour Canoe, now on view in the Great Hall.
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Explore stories and articles from around the web that reflect the values, research, communities and activities related to MOA and museums around the world.
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Explore MOA’s nearly 50,000 objects now on the Collections Online (MOA-CAT) system.
Visit Collections OnlineMOA’s ethnographic objects come from around world, including the South Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Learn MoreThe Conservation department is responsible for the care, use and preservation of the collections that are housed at MOA.
Learn MoreThe Curatorial department supports initiatives — including research, exhibitions and publishing — that help to build respectful relationships and mutual understanding with cultural communities represented through MOA’s collections.
Learn MoreThe Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives Department at MOA includes a library, an archive, and an oral history and language lab.
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Learn about MOA’s newest touchable object, Qap’u’luq-John Marston’s Harbour Canoe, now on view in the Great Hall.
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The new MOA Publication, Sea of Islands brings together knowledge holders, scholars, and artists from across the Pacific with Western scholars working with Pacific collections—as well as members of diasporic Oceanic communities—to share the stories and journeys of the objects that comprise Canada’s largest Oceanic collection, housed at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
Read MoreMOA is committed to promoting awareness and understanding of culturally diverse ways of knowing the world through challenging and innovative programs and partnerships with Indigenous, local and global communities.
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Learn MoreLearn more about MOA’s Volunteer Associates program, and how to join our dedicated team of volunteers.
Learn MoreThe Museum of Anthropology at UBC is a dynamic and challenging work environment that offers a range of roles for professionals and students.
Work at MOAMOA supports the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including originating communities’ right to “maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expression.”
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In May 2018, Carol Mayer visited the island of Erub, in the Torres Strait, north of Australia, to document the creation of Eip Kor Korr, a sculpture made of synthetic fishing nets.
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Read an excerpt of the book Divine Threads: The Visual and Material Culture of Cantonese Opera by April Liu.
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Seeing isn’t always believing. Learn about the history of this not-so-authentic flute in MOA’s collections.
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Discover MOA’s extensive contemporary art collection displayed in the Multiversity Galleries and explore Key-Sook Geum’s ethereal wire sculpture that fuses art and fashion.
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In the summer of 2019, the University of British Columbia returned a mortuary pole to the Haida Nation. This repatriation is an act of paying respect. Through this and other actions, UBC and MOA are acknowledging past injustices and working to right the past.
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Read an excerpt of Robert D. Watt’s book, People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point, which celebrates the public art of one of Canada’s most accomplished artists and designers. It was the recipient of the 2019 City of Vancouver Book Award.
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Have you ever looked into the eyes of a totem pole? MOA Curator, Karen Duffek, reflects on how the late, great Nisga’a artist, Norman Tait, learned to look closely at how eyes were carved when studying the art of his ancestors.
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Discover MOA’s extensive contemporary art collection displayed in the Multiversity Galleries by exploring this elk-skin drum, which serves as a visual record of a collaboration between Peter Morin and Hwieumten, Fred Roland.
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Enjoy this intricate 19th-century incense set from China bearing Arabic inscriptions that represents a fusion of cultures within Asia.
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Got an eye for all things design? Check out this stylized manuscript from MOA’s Multiversity Galleries, which boasts exquisitely geometric calligraphy.
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MOA acknowledges that it is built on the traditional, ancestral and unceded land of the Musqueam people.