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.
Daily public tours are held several times a day.
All public tours are free with museum admission.
Sound House this month offers a night of poetry, music and truth in the intimate setting of MOA’s Haida House.
MOA • $15 (includes museum admission) Performance Programs
MOA welcomes ceramics artist Sharon Reay as an Artist-in-Residence, from April to December 2019. During her residency at MOA, Sharon will be creating ceramic works in the Judy Cranmer Ceramics Laboratory (located in the Multiversity Galleries), and studying MOA’s extensive ceramics collection in the Koerner European Ceramics Gallery.
MOA's Judy Cranmer Ceramics Laboratory artist
Learn how a Cantonese Opera headdress is restored with Conservation Intern, Sally G. Kim.
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MOA’s retail space was established in 1977, just one year after MOA opened its doors of its current home. Over the past 42 years, the MOA Shop has continually found new ways to instill a sense of curiosity, discovery and learning in its visitors.
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Although beating a lali traditionally signalled a ceremonial event in Fujian culture, it doesn’t have to be a special occasion to tap this drum in the Multiversity Galleries.
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Brush up on what’s in the MOA drawers. While you’re combing through the objects in the Multiversity Galleries, check out this intriguing Chokwe piece from Angola.
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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
It’s a night for the grownups to play at MOA’s first-ever puppet slam. There’s nothing kid-friendly about this gut-splitting night of raunchy and raucous puppets.
What is a puppet slam, you ask? Puppeteers of all stripes perform their acts for an allotted amount of time and are judged by a panel of judges. Audience participation is strongly encouraged. For maximum surprise-factor, the puppet-wielding competitors are only revealed to the audience and to each other at the slam.
The night is hosted by Slam Master, Dusty Hagerüd, Vancouver’s go-to puppet doctor and MOA’s current artist-in-residence. Dusty is MOA’s Artist-in-Residence until September 2019, during which time he’s been creating his fuzzy and fabulous puppets in MOA’s Great Hall.
For (immature) mature audiences only.
Program
6:00 pm Bar and meet the puppets (MOA Cafe Courtyard)
7:00 pm Doors open (Haida House)
MC biography
Dusty Hagerüd is originally from Fernie, BC, and a member of the Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Nations of the Lower East Kootenays. Since childhood, he has been enchanted by the world of puppets, and draws inspiration from the animated puppets of Jim Henson, Noreen Young and Paul Fusco. As the creative director and founder of Color Sound Lab Puppet Makers, Dusty has been performing and designing puppets for 20 years, in a broad range of styles from marionettes, hand and rod puppets to 2-D paper puppets, Bunraku and shadow puppets.
MOA's Haida House • Free with museum admission Performance Program
