Please Touch Gently: Shaking the Crown Bone
When asked to make a new work for MOA, Gitxsan artist Eric Robertson sought to create something that linked all of the coastal nations.
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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.
From YVR Airport: Exit the Arthur Laing Bridge and head west onto Southwest Marine Drive, and follow this road 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)
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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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When asked to make a new work for MOA, Gitxsan artist Eric Robertson sought to create something that linked all of the coastal nations.
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Last month the National Museum of Brazil was destroyed by fire. Read about MOA’s connection to the institution, the devastating cultural loss and the digital rebuilding already underway.
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We’re drumming up excitement for objects you can touch at MOA! A favourite among visitors of all ages, these 13 carved Indonesian drums produce a beautiful depth of tones.
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Deer, turtles and bears, oh my! Painted on hide, this whimsical wall hanging was made by a boy who attended an Indian Residential School between 1932 and 1942.
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Shipibo-Konibo artisans of Peru create dazzling kené artworks, such as beadwork, embroidery and painting.
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While today Bill Reid’s bear sculpture proudly sits in the Great Hall, it wasn’t always intended to be displayed in the public eye.
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If you’re not sure where to begin in exploring the myriad of objects on display in the Multiversity Galleries, try finding this “amewsing” Japanese woodblock print.
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Despite measuring only 4.4 centimetres tall and a fraction of a centimetre wide, this Kwakwaka’wakw carving is no small feat.
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Valdis Zatlers, former president of the Republic of Latvia, donates ceramic works from Latgale, the easternmost region of Latvia renowned for its traditional pottery, to MOA’s permanent collection.
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This is part one of three part series in which MOA intern Nikki Peck shares a behind-the-scenes look into creating the Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded…
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MOA acknowledges that it is built on the traditional, ancestral and unceded land of the Musqueam people.