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.
MOA • Free with museum admission
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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This summer the participants of the Native Youth Program at MOA finished off their program with a pop-up exhibition, curated by NYP Manager, Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison (Saulteaux). The Echoes of Our Ancestors: We Are the Fire Still Rising featured selected works by youth in the 2025 Native Youth Program cohort.
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April 6, 2022 marks UBC Giving Day—a 24-hour campus-wide fundraising event aimed at bringing together the community to maximize awareness, engagement, and fundraising for important…
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This past summer we welcomed Safoura Rigi-Ladiz as the NYP Manager and River Ironeagle-Mindel as the Program Assistant. They were joined by six secondary students:…
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For the past four decades, NYP has welcomed small groups of urban Indigenous high-school students to participate in a summer employment and training program; this summer brought through its 40th cohort.
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The Native Youth Program (NYP), currently in its 36th year, is the longest running Aboriginal public program at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA). Each summer…
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By Nicole Brabant This summer at the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA), public tours commenced for a bold new exhibition called Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal…
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