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NEW – Enrich your visit of MOA with this new self-guided tour! Explore the Museum and its worldwide collections through rich, multimedia content. Move through the different gallery spaces—at your own pace, in your own order—to discover collection highlights, brought to life through the perspectives and voices of Indigenous artists and knowledge holders, museum curators, and other experts.
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Academic Programs
Visual + Material Culture Research Seminar Series
An interdisciplinary seminar series on visual and material culture. Free and open to all. Select Thursdays. See full details
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MOA Unmasked: Beading + Textiles in Motion
Thursday September 14 at 11am + 7 pm | Friday September 15 at 4:30 pm
MOA Unmasked: Bringing Exhibitions to Life
Thursday August 10 at 7 pm + Saturday, August 12 at 11 am
MOA on the Move: Native Youth Program Tours at MOV
Tuesday, July 18 – Friday, July 21, 2023 | 11 am + 2 pm
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Ask a MOA Conservator Day
Thursday November 25, 2021 | 5 – 6 pm
In celebration of Ask A Conservator Day which is celebrated annually in November, the MOA Conservation team will be offering a behind-the-scenes look at conservation work and a presentation about how you can care for your objects at home.
Learn more about how to care for objects with some of the knowledgeable members of MOA’s Conservation team: Mauray Toutloff, Hope Lafarge, and Esther Knegt. They will talk about concepts of conservation, with a focus on preventative conservation that anyone can apply at home, and they will include examples of their recent projects from the MOA collections. This will be followed by a Q + A where you can discuss your own family heirlooms, antiques, and other prized possessions, and find out how to preserve and care for them.
Tip: Feel free to bring photos of your objects at home to share during the discussion, in order to get some more detailed conservation advice.
Free with museum admission. Limited capacity.
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Mauray Katherine Toutloff is an objects conservator at MOA. She has an M.A.C. from Queen’s University and a B.Sc. from the University of Regina. Mauray is focused on collaborative research for preventative and treatment-oriented conservation strategies. She lectures on conservation for the Department of Anthropology, is the regional representative for the Canadian Association of Conservation, and is an ardent supporter of disseminating conservation education and training to students, volunteers, community members and the public.
Hope La Farge holds a Master’s in Art Conservation from Queen’s University and her specialty is in the conservation of ethnographic and archaeological objects. Hope works at MOA as a Conservation Research Assistant, working closely alongside the conservation and collections team as well as collaborating closely with Musqueam, the Laboratory of Archaeology, and MOA in support of wet-site archaeological conservation. She believes that art conservation has an immense potential to influence future generations by creating new experiences, generating collaborative educational opportunities, and initiating supportive communities.
Esther Knegt is a graduate of the Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management program at Fleming College and her background centres around archaeology, with previous experience in treating and preserving objects from underwater sites. Working at MOA has exposed her to a diverse ethnographic collection, much of which has intimate connections to originating communities. Outside of work, she is interested in public outreach and is a member of the Canadian Association of Conservation’s sub-committee, the Emerging Conservator Committee, where she helps create events and resources for other emerging conservators.
MOA • Free with museum admission | Free for Indigenous people Program