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.
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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 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.
Learn from Rebecca Graham, acclaimed weaver and winner of the Vancouver Mayor’s Art Award, as she demonstrates the elaborate process of weaving, starting from the seed to fiber to spinning. Then weave the night away with CoERASGA dance company, noted for their hybrid, trans-cultural productions, and Kasandra Flamenco Ensemble who will present an explosive flamenco performance.
artist Family friendly Night Shift Performance
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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.
Opening remarks | 7:15 pm
Free admission | 6 pm
Guests will be introduced to the exhibition by its curator, Laura Osorio Sunnucks. Tour the exhibition, which not only features works from MOA’s impressive Latin American collection, but also includes newly purchased and commissioned works, sourced from Laura’s personal research in rural towns in Mayan–speaking Mexico and Guatemala.
This provocative exhibition features two multi-sensory installations, including a mural painted on site by a women’s art collective from the Amazonian Shipibo-Konibo diaspora in Lima, Peru. Olinda Silvano and Silvia Ricopa, who are both members of this collective, will sing live for visitors at the opening.
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This workshop will introduce participants to the possibilities of using stencils as a tool, in the context of street art, to engage with social issues. The workshop is produced in conjunction with MOA's newest exhibition, Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America, which explores the role of creativity during times of political turmoil.
Workshop cost per person, includes materials:
Adult: $50
Youth, Student, Senior: $35
Indigenous peoples, MOA Members, UBC students/staff/faculty: $25
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Join us for the first curatorial tour of the powerful new show, Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America, by its curator, Laura Osorio Sunnucks.
• Free with museum admission Exhibition Family friendly tour
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