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.
The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets
The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets
Preserving What We Value
Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art
Daily public tours are held several times a day.
All public tours are free with museum admission. See tour schedule.
Join MOA to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Stonewall—the New York City riots that sparked the modern fight for LGBTQ+ rights and blossomed into an international rainbow celebration of diversity, inclusion and human rights, now known worldwide as Pride.
MOA • Free with museum admission Performance Program Workshop
MOA joins forces with the Vancouver Mural Festival to present a Puppet Parade featuring the Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret.
Main Street, Vancouver • Free Community Program
Congratulations to not one, but two winners of the 2019 MOA Shop Emerging Indigenous Artist Contest: Maka Monture Päki for Not Invisible and John Velten for Hummingbird.
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Learn more about the BC HERN, a growing network of art, culture and heritage professionals and volunteers who are planning for emergency situations and supporting other cultural institutions in the event of localized emergencies that impact collections.
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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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You might be surprised to learn what this robe from Siberia is made out of.
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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
Enjoy an afternoon of stunning Indonesian performance at MOA. Experience three different traditional forms of live cultural expression in the unique settings of MOA’s Haida House and Great Hall.
Take in a 90-minute shadow puppet performance, called wayang kulit, featuring a full Javanese gamelan ensemble, led by Vancouver-based Indonesian gamelan and puppet master Sutrisno Hartana with special guest drummer, Eko Purnomo Teguhwibowo from Java, Indonesia. Following the wayang kulit show is a short Javanese dance performance in the Great Hall featuring special guest dancers from Sampan Bujana Sentra (Indonesian Young Artists Group) with direction and choreography from Uniek Sampan Hismanto. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these traditional dancers from Indonesia here for this weekend only.
Wayang kulit (shadow puppetry) is a popular performance tradition in Indonesia, with roots from India and draws from the Hindu and Buddhist religions. Traditional puppets are created with water buffalo hide, and painted on both sides. The puppeteer, called a dhalang, holds the intricately carved leather puppets up against a white cloth with a bright light burning above his head to form shadows on the screen.
Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of Indonesia, made up of mostly percussive instruments consisting of bronze gongs, metal xylophones and drums. The music features an intricate layering of rhythmic patterns and improvisation that creates a mesmerizing and shimmering beauty. Both Javanese gamelan and dance have a rich tradition dating as far back as the 7th century. Javanese dance movements are controlled, deliberate and elegant and the combination of gamelan and dance tells a story often related to the mythology of the Mahabharata and other timeless tales.
This special afternoon is offered in conjunction with the Museum’s latest feature exhibition—Shadows, Strings and Other Things: The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets.
Free with museum admission.
Haida House
Wayang kulit Javanese shadow puppet performance with gamelan | 11 am – 12:30 pm
Please note that seating for this performance is limited and entry will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Great Hall
Javanese dance | 1 – 1:30 pm
Sutrisno Hartana, who is also known as dhalang Mas Lurah Lebda Swara, is a wayang kulit puppeteer, composer and arts educator and currently teaches at SFU’s School for Contemporary Arts.
Eko Purnomo Teguhwibowo is a professional Javanese gamelan musician (drummer) and dancer from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He graduated from the school of performing arts in Yogyakarta and toured in Canada in 2007 and 2008.
Uniek Sampan Hismanto is a choreographer and award-winning dancer based in Jakarta, Indonesia and currently serves as the Managing Director of Sampan Bujana Sentra.
MOA • Free with museum admission Performance
