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 SB West Mall at NW Marine Dr.
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.
MOA’s Great Hall is being prepared for important seismic upgrades in November and December 2018. During this time, visitors will see the iconic space in transition as poles located in the Great Hall are lowered and moved. The poles will be placed into temporary storage where visitors can watch them undergo conservation.
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Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia
Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia
Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art
Preserving What We Value
Daily public tours are held several times a day.
All public tours are free with museum admission. See tour schedule.
Dive deep into the art of Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists From Aboriginal Australia with a unique night of musical experimentation and art appreciation at MOA.
• General $42 | UBC Students/Staff/Faculty/MOA Members/Indigenous Peoples $35 Exhibition Performance Program
Bring your friends and dancing shoes to MOA’s Haida House for a new music series featuring a fantastic and eclectic lineup of Vancouver bands and musicians.
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In this second of three posts, learn more about the artists featured in the exhibition Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia as she reflects on her work: how she learned to paint, what subjects she has painted, and why.
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Arkeria Rose Armstrong is a Gamilaraay painter connecting traditional Aboriginal art with her own contemporary style. Jewellery featuring her work is now available at the MOA Shop.
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Discover MOA’s extensive contemporary art collection displayed in the Multiversity Galleries, starting with Tania Willard’s woodblock print that depicts the gendered labour symptomatic of Canada’s colonial history.
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The best logs for large canoes have a fine grain, no twist, and few knots, and the tree that produced Bill Reid’s inshore canoe was no exception.
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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 the opening celebrations of Shake Up: Preserving What We Value, MOA’s new exhibition that explores the convergence of earthquake science and technology with the rich traditional knowledge and oral history of the living cultures represented in MOA’s collections.
Admission by donation | 10 am – 5 pm
Program | 11:30 am – 4 pm
Join us for a full day of museum fun for the whole family to open Shake Up: Preserving What We Value. Choose your own adventure from a range of earthquake-inspired activities—from 360 virtual reality tour, lectures and hands-on workshops, to performances of song, dance and storytelling. This day-long celebration, taking place throughout the Museum, draws from the cultures of earthquake-prone regions, as well as the knowledge of scientists and cultural experts.
Enjoy an experimental dance performance by Mascall Dance, interactive play with Gamelan Bike Bike, a workshop on Balinese Kecak percussion and dance, and a performance by Canada’s first children’s taiko group, Chibi Taiko.
The Shake Up: Preserving What We Value exhibition puts into the foreground both scientific understandings and traditional knowledge of earthquakes. Through art and culture, the exhibition highlights how knowledge of natural disasters that has been passed down through generations throughout many cultures. Shake Up is presented in conjunction with the seismic upgrades of MOA’s Great Hall to help preserve the building, the collections and cultural heritage.
Admission to the museum and Shake Up opening celebrations on this day is by donation. Proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, in support of their work providing emergency humanitarian medical attention around the world.
Program Schedule
Great Hall
Opening remarks | 11:30 am
Performance: Mascall Dance | 12 pm
Drop-in interactive play: Gamelan Bike Bike | 1:30 pm
Workshop: Kecak percussion and dance | 2:30 pm
Demonstration: Kecak percussion and dance | 3 pm
Performance: Chibi Taiko | 3:10 pm
Demonstration: Self-guided 360 virtual reality tour | Ongoing from 10 am
Textiles Lab
Presentation: Volcano Culture—How Seismic Activity Shapes Balinese Civilization Then and Now. With Tom Hunter, Professor of Asian Studies at UBC | 12:30 pm
Presentation: Ancient History and Modern Science—The Energy Beneath Our Feet. With John J. Clague, Professor of Earth Science at SFU | 1 pm
Presentation Circle
Storytelling: Northwest Coast oral histories with Amanda Nahanee (Squamish) | 12:30 pm
Storytelling: Northwest Coast oral histories with Cease Wyss (Skwxwu7mesh/Sto:lo/Irish-Métis/Hawaiian/Swiss) | 1 pm
Education Lab
Drop-in interactive play: Hands-on seismic learning with Daniel Gowryluk, Assistant Curator at UBC’s Pacific Museum of Earth | 1 pm
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$2 parking at MOA and the Rose Garden parkades: Use coupon code SHAKE
• By donation Exhibition Family friendly Performance
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