The 4, 14, 25, 33, 41, 43, 44, 49, 84, 99 B-Line, 480 buses arrive at UBC Exchange Bay 2—a 15 minute walk to MOA. Get off at the last stop and walk northwest. See detailed directions.
The C18 and C20 UBC shuttle buses depart from UBC Exchange 1. Get off at NW Marine Dr FS Cecil Green Park Rd.
Full transit information at the Translink website.
From Downtown: Take 4th Avenue, Broadway (9th Avenue), 10th Avenue, or 16th Avenue west all the way to UBC.
From YVR Airport: Exit the Arthur Laing Bridge onto Southwest Marine Drive, and follow this road to UBC.
Once in UBC, watch for signs guiding you to MOA. Paid parking can be purchased by cash or credit card.
An Evo and Car2Go parking lot is located a 7 minute walk south of MOA.
From downtown, cross the Burrard Street Bridge and exit to the right onto Cornwall. Follow to Point Grey Road until NW Marine Drive all the way to UBC. Note this ride involves a significant hill, and Mobi bike shares do not have stations at UBC.
Daily public tours are held three times throughout the day.
All public tours are free with museum admission. See tour schedule.
Join us for Night Shift: Magnetic Threads for an evening of music, dance and interactive art that explores our bodies relationship with woven materials. Don’t miss this final Night Shift of the season, guest-curated by contemporary dance group CoERASGA.
artist Family friendly Night Shift Performance
Celebrate the opening of MOA's newest exhibition, Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America, with a remarkable evening exploring the political and social significance of artistic traditions in Latin American culture and folkloric arts.
• Free Exhibition Family friendly Performance
Through MOA's unique school programs, elementary and secondary students learn about world cultures.
In numbers alone, MOA’s new Gallery of Northwest Coast Masterworks is groundbreaking: more than 110 historical Indigenous objects will be displayed in a $3.5-million space, which features more than 30 Indigenous voices in video, audio and text, and one custom microchip designed to read Point Grey weather patterns.
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When Valdis Zatlers, then-president of the Republic of Latvia, visited Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics, he made a special excursion to MOA. “The richness of the great number of collections in the Museum of Anthropology makes you lose your breath with every step you take."
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When Valdis Zatlers, then-president of the Republic of Latvia, visited Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics, he made a special excursion to MOA. “The richness of the great number of collections in the Museum of Anthropology makes you lose your breath with every step you take."
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The Museum of Anthropology will soon be home to a significant collection of historical and contemporary Indigenous artworks and a new Gallery of Northwest Coast Masterworks.
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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
Join Coast Salish spinning specialist Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa in learning about traditional Coast Salish fibres such as mountain goat wool, wool from the Coast Salish Wolley dog, Indian hemp/dogbane, stinging nettles and fireweed fluff.
Participants will discuss how these fibres were prepared and the tools used to spin them. Samples of all these fibres in addition to a few more will be there to look at closely and handle to get an appreciation of the skills and mastery in spinning them into magnificent robes and blankets. A slideshow covering some of the history of Coast Salish spinning and its evolution will highlight some of the spinning characteristics to look for in the yarns in the blankets and robes on display.
Participants will learn to spin starting with the age-old method of thigh spinning and then use hand spindles and also the traditional large spindles often with ornately carved whorls. You will spin with sheep wool, feathers, stinging nettle and some dog wool. Limited to 12 participants only.
At the end of the workshop, you will have more understanding of Coast Salish textiles and especially the yarns used to make them. You will take home some samples yarns you have made and a spindle to keep on learning.
MOA • Adult $100 | Youth + Student + Senior $90 | Indigenous peoples + MOA Members + UBC Students/Staff/Faculty $80 Exhibition presentation Workshop
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