From 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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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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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.
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MOA 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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University of British Columbia
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Ask MOA: What Is It? is your opportunity to ask MOA Curators and Collections staff about an artwork or other mystery object at home that you’ve always wondered about.This featured Ask MOA case features a conversation about a button blanket between the inquirer and MOA Curator Jennifer Kramer.
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Ask MOA: What Is It? is your opportunity to ask MOA Curators and Collections staff about an artwork or other mystery object at home that you’ve always wondered about. This featured Ask MOA case answers an inquiry about a carved wooden box.
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The COVID-19 virus poses a risk to all of us, but the pandemic does not affect all of us the same way. This is the time to respect and learn from each other, rather than ignite the flames of xenophobia.
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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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Ask MOA: What Is It? is your opportunity to ask MOA Curators and Collections staff about an artwork or other mystery object at home that you’ve always wondered about. This featured Ask MOA case responds to an inquiry about a bone tool purchased in Estonia.
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Ask MOA: What Is It? is your opportunity to ask MOA Curators and Collections staff about an artwork or other mystery object at home that you’ve always wondered about. This featured Ask MOA case answers two different inquiries about woven baskets.
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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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In addition to its extensive object collection, the Museum of Anthropology also houses a valuable collection of archival material, including the journals of the late artist and award-winning author, Hilary Stewart. Here we see the sketches and notes from a 1972 trip to ’Ksan in Gitxsan territory.
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MOA Library + Archives Assistant Clara Gimenez-Delgado articulates the challenging emotional dimensions that can come with archival work.
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BC HERN is a growing network of cultural institutions committed to supporting each other to recover collections after an emergency and providing webinar training for non-conservators or conservators alike.
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