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
Join MOA for a special talk with Tibetologist Dr. Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy on the MOA exhibition, Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images.
MOA's Community Lounge • Free, RSVP required
Join us on the last Sunday of each month for MOA’s family program series, Culture Club at MOA.
MOA • Free with museum admission
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)
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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In this story by guest curator, Jeffrey Boone, learn about the exhibition, VALUE: Rebecca Belmore at the Museum of Anthropology and how Rebecca Belmore challenges viewers to take stock of her work.
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In this guest post by Archive/CounterArchive Artist-in-Residence Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv/Klahoose), learn about his visits and responses to the MOA exhibition To Be Seen, To Be Heard: First Nations in Public Spaces, 1900-1965.
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Do you think of lettuce fields, border crossings and murals when you think of American civil rights movements? We do. These were in fact integral…
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“Sankofa” has emerged as a strong thread linking countless organizations and projects, whether these may be a grassroots museum in the neighbourhood of Rocinha in…
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Ten years have passed since Japan was rocked by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11, 2011. This earthquake caused extensive damage to the Great Eastern…
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The Museum of Anthropology at UBC is honoured to be the final stop on the national tour of Cree artist Kent Monkman’s exhibition, Shame and…
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In MOA’s latest exhibition, 11 BC-based artists push clay to its limits, bringing their own fresh, playful and challenging perspectives on issues that face us all.
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Read about Sutrisno Hartana’s personal journey through the world of Javanese shadow puppetry and gamelan, from Indonesia to Canada.
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In this final of three posts, learn more about the artists featured in the exhibition Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia as she reflects on her work: how she learned to paint, what subjects she has painted, and why.
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In this second of three posts, learn more about the artists featured in the exhibition Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia as she reflects on her work: how she learned to paint, what subjects she has painted, and why.
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