MOA is temporarily closed — from January 16 until late 2023 — for Great Hall seismic upgrades.
Learn MoreTour With the MOA App
NEW – Enrich your visit of MOA with this new self-guided tour! Explore the Museum and its worldwide collections through rich, multimedia content. Move through the different gallery spaces—at your own pace, in your own order—to discover collection highlights, brought to life through the perspectives and voices of Indigenous artists and knowledge holders, museum curators, and other experts.
Disponible en français
提供中文版本
Academic Programs
Visual + Material Culture Research Seminar Series
An interdisciplinary seminar series on visual and material culture. Free and open to all. Select Thursdays. See full details
Just Passed
MOA Unmasked: Beading + Textiles in Motion
Thursday September 14 at 11am + 7 pm | Friday September 15 at 4:30 pm
MOA Unmasked: Bringing Exhibitions to Life
Thursday August 10 at 7 pm + Saturday, August 12 at 11 am
MOA on the Move: Native Youth Program Tours at MOV
Tuesday, July 18 – Friday, July 21, 2023 | 11 am + 2 pm
All Past EventsPrivate Tours
MOA offers a full range of private tours and educational programs, led by a guide or MOA curator.
Learn MoreYour event at MOA
MOA can be rented for weddings or a variety of corporate and community events—all with opportunities for exclusive enjoyment of our galleries and stunning ocean views. Learn more
This Event Is In The Past


The Work We Do: Journey Into the Collections
Thursday January 28, 2021 | 6 – 7:30 PM
Join us for the kick off of a new online MOA series, The Work We Do, with MOA’s Collections Care and Management team as we follow a recently donated acquisition—a contemporary Salish weaving by Barbara Marks McCoy—on its path into the MOA Collection.
The Work We Do series focuses on the work we do at the Museum of Anthropology, the community members we work with, and the shared interests that bring us together. In this online event series, we follow a new acquisition on its journey into the collections; learn about the work done to support preservation of Indigenous oral histories and languages; and listen to a range of voices from diverse communities guiding us towards meaningful collaborations, and ways of understanding. Each event includes a live discussion and Q+A.
At the first event, “Journey Into the Collections,” learn about some of the acquisition and collections management processes that take place when a new object is donated to the MOA Collection.
The event includes a short documentary where MOA Curator Sue Rowley shares information about the donation of this piece and its historical significance, and MOA’s Collections Care and Management staff demonstrate processes involved in bringing a newly acquired weaving into the textile collection, including pest management, registration, accessioning, digitization and storage.
Online via Zoom • Free, registration required Program