
In MOA’s Drawers: Putorino (flute)
Seeing isn’t always believing. Learn about the history of this not-so-authentic flute in MOA’s collections.
Read MoreVisit MOA! New safety measures + timed-entry tickets in effect. (Updated March 30, 2021) Plan your visit →
MOA is open and we have implemented COVID-19 procedures and physical distancing measures—for your safety, and ours—including the mandatory use of face masks. (Updated March 30, 2021)
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Big changes are underway in MOA's Great Hall, which is receiving seismic upgrades in order to augment its structural integrity and help preserve the invaluable cultural significance and living heritage of the world-renowned Northwest Coast First Nations collection housed within it.
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.
Once at UBC, watch for signs guiding you to MOA. Paid parking can be purchased by cash or credit card. An Evo parking lot is located a 7-minute walk south of MOA.
From downtown Vancouver: Cross the Burrard Street Bridge and exit to the right onto Cornwall Street. Follow to Point Grey Road until NW Marine Drive all the way to UBC.
Please note that this route involves a significant hill, and that Mobi bike shares do not have stations at UBC.
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Learn MoreArt and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake /
東日本大震災後のアートと暮らし
Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake /
東日本大震災後のアートと暮らし
Preserving What We Value
Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art
Updated: March 31, 2021—MOA is open to the public with rigorous COVID-19 protocols. We continue to work hard to adjust and implement a process to safely welcome our visitors and staff, in accordance with all provincial health directives.
Read MoreSeismic upgrades and rebuild of MOA’s Great Hall are now underway, in order to strengthen the Museum’s resiliency and protect its irreplaceable collection in the event of a major earthquake.
Read MoreIn the wake of the violent hate crimes in Atlanta, which killed eight people including six women of Asian descent on March 16, 2021, MOA condemns the surge of recent and ongoing anti-Asian racism across the continent. MOA stands in solidarity with members of the Asian communities at UBC, Vancouver and beyond.
Read MoreThis dialogue is part of MOA series Responsive Dialogues: Racism in Canada, sparked by recent anti-Black and anti-Asian violence in communities across North America, and…
Read MoreExplore 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.
Learn MoreIn 2018, Jennifer Kramer, MOA Curator of the Pacific Northwest, was invited at the Frank Nelson Memorial Potlatch in Alert Bay to witnessed the dancing of Ninini (Earthquake), a supernatural being with whom the Nelson family has connections since time immemorial.
Read MoreArtists Unscripted is a new MOA online informal conversation series with Canadian artists of diverse backgrounds, practices and outlooks.
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.
Learn MoreMOA 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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Learn MoreWelcome to the Museum of Anthropology, a place of world arts and cultures with a special emphasis on the First Nations peoples and other cultural communities of British Columbia, Canada.
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Email • info@moa.ubc.ca
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Seeing isn’t always believing. Learn about the history of this not-so-authentic flute in MOA’s collections.
Read MoreEnjoy this intricate 19th-century incense set from China bearing Arabic inscriptions that represents a fusion of cultures within Asia.
Read MoreGot an eye for all things design? Check out this stylized manuscript from MOA’s Multiversity Galleries, which boasts exquisitely geometric calligraphy.
Read MorePinkies up! Can you guess the household source of the itsy-bitsy embellishments on this ivory tea set?
Read MoreBrush up on what’s in the MOA drawers. While you’re combing through the objects in the Multiversity Galleries, check out this intriguing Chokwe piece from Angola.
Read MoreYou might be surprised to learn what this robe from Siberia is made out of.
Read MoreDeer, 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.
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreDespite measuring only 4.4 centimetres tall and a fraction of a centimetre wide, this Kwakwaka’wakw carving is no small feat.
Read MoreMOA acknowledges that it is built on the traditional, ancestral and unceded land of the Musqueam people.