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 68 UBC Exchange/Lower Mall shuttle bus departs 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.
Politics and the Past in Latin America
Politics and the Past in Latin America
Honouring Indigenous Culture, History and Language
Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art
Daily public tours are held three times throughout the day.
All public tours are free with museum admission. See tour schedule.
This 30-minute tour explores Culture at the Centre from an Indigenous perspective. Take a deeper look into this exhibition with members of MOA’s Native Youth Program (NYP), a summer leadership program for urban Indigenous youth. Let them take you through the exhibition’s themes of honouring and supporting culture, history and language—and what those themes mean to them in their own lives.
MOA • Free with museum admission Exhibition tour
This 60-minute tour explores the highlights of the many galleries at MOA. The tour provides visitors with an introduction to MOA’s Northwest Coast collections, the Koerner European Ceramics collection and the Multiversity Galleries, as well as an in-depth look at Bill Reid’s The Raven and the First Men. You will also be introduced to the themes of any temporary exhibitions.
• Free with museum admission tour
Through MOA's unique school programs, elementary and secondary students learn about world cultures.
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MOA is now home to a diverse new collection of Northwest Coast art, including early works by renowned Haida artist Bill Reid.
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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
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. Guests will also have the opportunity to meet and hear live music by John Gonzalez, a Colombian-Canadian accordion player who specializes in Latin Music, Eric Ramirez who plays the congas, KeAloha Neoelani on drums and Yoendrys on trombone.
• Free Exhibition Family friendly Performance
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