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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.
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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.
Art 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
Join MOA for a virtual conversation with Masao Okabe and Chihiro Minato—featured artists in A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake, facilitated by exhibition curator Fuyubi Nakamura.
『記憶のための未来』の出展作家、岡部昌生氏と港千尋氏による対談です。展覧会担当キュレーターの中村冬日が進行役をつとめます。
Online via Zoom | Zoomでのオンラインイベント • Free, registration required | 登録は必要ですが、無料イベントです
Welcome all spell-casters, poetry architects, refuge-seekers, gender binary abolitionists, and those finding the words back to a sense of home within their queer body.
Online via Zoom • Free, registration required
Online • Free
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.
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Seismic 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.
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How should museums respond to current events or issues in the world? MOA’s new Responsive Dialogues series addresses pressing issues of the moment by making connections to what we do at MOA. The first dialogue in the series is about racism in Canada.
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Artists Unscripted is a new MOA online informal conversation series with Canadian artists of diverse backgrounds, practices and outlooks.
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In 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.
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In this ongoing online event series we invite you to learn about the work we do at the Museum of Anthropology, the community members we work with, and the shared interests that bring us together.
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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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Museum of Anthropology at the
University of British Columbia
6393 NW Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2
Email • info@moa.ubc.ca
Phone • 604.822.5087
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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After being inspired by MOA’s collection in Art of the Kwakiutl Indians, the Museum’s first catalogue, Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau invited MOA to present a major exhibition of its First Nations collection in Montreal.
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In addition to its extensive object collection, the Museum of Anthropology also houses a valuable collection of archival material. MOA’s Archives is part of the…
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