MOA is temporarily closed in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Update: May 8 →
From Vancouver: The westbound 4, 14, 25, 33, R4, 44, 49, 84, 99 B-Line, and 480 buses arrive at UBC. Get off at the last stop and walk northwest. See detailed directions.
Once at UBC Exchange, you can also transfer to the 68 Wesbrook Village bus instead of walking to MOA. Get off at NW Marine Dr at West Mall. Full transit information at the Translink website.
From Downtown Vancouver: Cross the Burrard or Granville Street bridges, and then head west on 4th Avenue, Broadway, 10th Avenue or 16th Avenue all the way to UBC.
From YVR Airport: Exit the Arthur Laing Bridge and head west onto Southwest Marine Drive, and follow this road to UBC.
Once at UBC, watch for signs guiding you to MOA. Paid parking can be purchased by cash or credit card. An Evo parking lot is located a 7-minute walk south of MOA.
From downtown Vancouver: Cross the Burrard Street Bridge and exit to the right onto Cornwall Street. Follow to Point Grey Road until NW Marine Drive all the way to UBC.
Please note that this route involves a significant hill, and that Mobi bike shares do not have stations at UBC.
Join us for the opening celebrations of Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, a journey through the past 150 years of Canada.
MOA • Free Exhibition Opening Programs
MOA invites you to take part in this special opportunity to hear artist Kent Monkman discuss his artistic practice and the development of the exhibition, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.
Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC • General $25 | UBC Students, Staff, Faculty / MOA Members / Indigenous peoples $20 artist Exhibition Programs
Updated: May 8, 2020—MOA remains temporarily closed to the public in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and does not yet have a date selected to re-open. We are working hard to develop and implement a process to safely re-open for our visitors and staff, in accordance with all provincial health directives.
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Here are some online MOA resources for you to enjoy online, from home. In these difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s more important than ever to keep culture in your daily life.
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Do you have an artwork or other mystery object at home that you’ve always wondered about? Let our curators and collections staff offer their expertise.
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Join MOA for a journey of musical discovery from Asia, to Europe and the Americas. Learn about what it takes to create a new album…
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Read an excerpt of the book Divine Threads: The Visual and Material Culture of Cantonese Opera by April Liu, which unravels the strands of memory and migration embedded in a treasure trove of Cantonese opera costumes, props and stage dressings held at MOA.
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Seeing isn’t always believing. Learn about the history of this not-so-authentic flute in MOA’s collections.
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Discover MOA’s extensive contemporary art collection displayed in the Multiversity Galleries and explore Key-Sook Geum’s ethereal wire sculpture that fuses art and fashion.
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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
