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Learn MoreTours at MOA

Whether you’re at the Museum or browsing from home, there are many ways to tour our collections and exhibitions.
Daily Tours: Beginning May 21, 2022
Self-Guided Tours: Explore at your own pace with our multimedia app
Daily Tours
Self-guided Tours
Full Tour Schedule
Beginning May 21, 2022
Monday
12 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
Tuesday
12 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: Cultures autochtones de la Côte Nord-Ouest (en français, 30 minutes)
Wednesday
11 am: Xicanx Exhibition Tour (30 minutes)
12 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
Thursday
11 am: Xicanx Exhibition Tour (30 minutes)
12 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
Friday
11 am: Xicanx Exhibition Tour (30 minutes)
12 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
Saturday
11 am: Xicanx Exhibition Tour (30 minutes)
12 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
Sunday
11 am: Xicanx Exhibition Tour (30 minutes)
12 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
*Daily tour schedule is subject to change without notice
Live Tours
Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots
Join a selection of curators, artists, and community leaders for special public tours of MOA’s current feature exhibition. This one-hour tour focuses on sharing perspectives about African and Black history, political affirmation and cultural identity.
Select Saturdays, 3 — 4pm:
- Cancelled: Saturday, February 19
- Saturday, February 26 – with Stephanie Allen, co-founder of Hogan’s Alley Society
- Saturday, March 5 – with Anthonia Ogundele, UBC Board of Governors + founder of Hogan’s Alley Land Trust
- Saturday, March 12 – with Nya Lewis, exhibition guest co-curator; founder + director of BlackArt Gastown
Self-Guided Tours


Tour with the MOA Multimedia Guide
NEW – Enrich your visit of the Museum of Anthropology with this new self-guided tour! Explore the Museum and its worldwide collections through rich, multimedia content – at your own pace, in your own order.
Disponible en français
提供中文版本
Take a 360º tour of the Great Hall
"Walk" through this 360º virtual tour of the stunning Great Hall and read more about the massive carvings that fill it.
Upcoming Events


Culture Club at MOA: Papel Picado
Sunday, May 29 2022 | 11 am – 12:30 pm
Join us on the last Sunday of May for the second edition of an exciting new family program series: Culture Club at MOA.
This monthly family program features an experiential learning opportunity with storytelling, arts-based activities, and self-guided tours specially designed for young visitors. Families will have the chance to connect with and learn from MOA’s diverse collections and exhibitions. Culture Club focuses on active, participatory learning about diverse cultural perspectives and ways of knowing.
This month we invite families to learn about papel picado, a traditional Mexican craft that involves cutting colourful tissue paper into elaborate shapes and designs to hang as decorations. Work with Carmen Keitsch, a multi-talented artist originally from Mexico. Afterwards enjoy a self-guided tour of MOA’s new feature exhibition, Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers / Soñadores + creadores del cambio.
Limited supplies; first come, first serve.
Bio
Carmen Keitsch was born in the small town of Navolato, Sinaloa, Mexico, where she discovered her passion for the arts and classical music early in life. Thus, inspired her to study theater, pottery, music and painting. Carmen moved to Canada in 1989 where she began to explore Pre-Hispanic folk art combining symbolism, poetry and color. History and culture of the native Aztec and Maya people of North America are strongly reflected in her art. Her paintings also display a profound spiritual meaning of her life journey and those around her.
Culture Club at MOA is made possible by the generous support of UBC Campus & Community Planning.
MOA • Free with museum admission Family friendly Program
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Tla Yahda – Making It Right: Repatriation Ethics, A Haida View
Saturday June 4, 2022 | 1 – 2 pm
MOA is honoured to welcome Sdahl Ḵ’awaas, Lucy Bell of the Haida Nation, who will reflect on the issues surrounding repatriation and museum practices, as well as the decisions and actions that led to successful repatriations and the ethical issues museums must face along the path to reconciliation.
Lucy and the Haida Repatriation Committee have returned over 500 of their Kuniisii’s—their Ancestors’—remains from many global museums. In her more than 30 years working with museums, Lucy has seen museums struggle to repatriate and make things right. In this talk she will share the Haida ethical decisions and actions that led to successful repatriations and the ethical issues museums must face in this path to reconciliation.
This is a hybrid event that will take place in-person and online:
In-person attendance does not require registration (and does not include museum admission).
Online attendance requires registration—registration link below.
Bio
Lucy Bell, Sdaahl K’awaas, is a passionate Haida museologist, language revitalizer and Haida nerd with a passion for learning from her Ancestors. She is currently a SFU PhD Candidate focusing on Haida museology. With her at the helm, the Haida have repatriated over 500 ancestral remains, many language resources and some belongings from global museums. Lucy received a BC Community Achievement Award for her work in repatriation.
Lucy was the inaugural Head of the Indigenous Collections and Repatriation Department at the Royal BC Museum. She co-wrote the Indigenous Repatriation Handbook as well as led her team to change policy, care for Ancestral remains in a better way and repatriate tangible and intangible heritage. In her farewell speech, she also graciously called out the museum for racism, launching an investigation and internal work to address the problem. She received the Sterling Prize for Controversy for her actions.
In-person at MOA's Haida House + Online via Zoom • Free Lecture Program


Xicanx: Not-Your-Average Tours
Third Thursday of each month | 7 pm
Join a selection of academics, artists, activists and community leaders for special public tours of MOA’s new feature exhibition.
Deepen your exhibition experience of Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers/soñadores + creadores del cambio, in these special tours that focus on sharing perspectives about Xicanx history, social and political issues and identity.
Xicanx (May 12, 2022 – January 1, 2023) features many contemporary works by over thirty artists of Mexican American heritage–self-identified as Xicanx. These works combine traditions with contemporary experiences and realities to create powerful critiques that help build our understanding of the issues of race, migration, and identity that impact the Xicanx community.
These 30-minute exhibition tours will give visitors the opportunity to engage with the themes and ideas of the exhibition, including complex identities, activism and the concept of borders.
Capacity of 15 people per tour; first come, first served.
Schedule:
Third Thursday of each month | 7 pm
Thursday, May 19: with Raul Gatica, co-founder of Dignidad Migrante Society (please note: this month’s tour is at 3 pm, not 7 pm)
Thursday, June 16: with Diamond Olivia Olsson Delgado, musician, poet, storyteller and actor + Angelic Goldsky, creative director and founder of the Transgender Expressions Haven
Thursday, July 21
Thursday, August 18
Thursday, September 15
Thursday, October 20: with Alessandra Santos, chair of Latin American Studies Program, and faculty associate of Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC
Thursday, November 17
Bios
Raul Gatica is the co-founder of Dignidad Migrante Society, a temporary foreign farm worker organization, as well as editor of the cultural magazine El Cencerro. He describes himself as a Mixtec of bad reputation, subversive with a patched heart, and (sometimes) poet from San Miguelito, Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico. He is a survivor of torture and has been in political exile in Canada since 2005. He has authored books of poetry Assaulting the Word and Broken Man/Hombre Roto, as well as books of stories Shoes on the Rocks and Borrowed Characters.
Diamond Olivia Olsson Delgado is a musician, poet, storyteller and actor. She/her is Mexican First Nations and Caucasian. Dabbing in raw forms of art exploring queer identity, racism and healing. Collecting inspiration from everyday life. She is nothing but honest.
Angelic Goldsky [t(he?)y] is a poet and a queer community arts lover. They are the poet-in-residence at the Roundhouse Community Art Centre, and love facilitating and finding ancient words which rebel against form, and birth new timelines. They are the Creative Director and Founder of the Transgender Expressions Haven, an organization devoted to celebrating transgender creative genius through interactive, media and multi-dimensional art.
Alessandra Santos is associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Film, and currently serves as chair of Latin American Studies at UBC. Her research area is Latin American cinema, performance, literature and culture. Her main areas of interest are utopias, technology, gender, and social justice, and her work examines how art functions as social practice. Among her publications are a book on Mexican cult film The Holy Mountain, and two co-edited interdisciplinary volumes on utopias in the Americas.
MOA • Free with museum admission Exhibition Program Tour
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Tour 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
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Just Passed
Xicanx: Zine-Making Workshop
Sunday May 15, 2022 | 11 am – 1 pm
CANCELLED—Xicanx: Artist and Curator Roundtable
Saturday May 14, 2022 | 2 – 4 pm
Opening Celebrations of Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers
Thursday May 12, 2022 | 5 pm
All Past EventsPrivate Tours
MOA offers a full range of private tours and educational programs, led by a guide or MOA curator.
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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