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.
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Everyone Says I Look Like My Mother
Everyone Says I Look Like My Mother
Tibet Through Images
པར་རིས་ནང་གི་བོད།
Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art
Join MOA each month for our new art-making series for adults, Art Club at MOA.
Cedar Café at MOA • Free (museum admission not required)
Join MOA for a special talk with Tibetologist Dr. Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy on the MOA exhibition, Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images.
MOA's Community Lounge • Free, RSVP required
Join us on the last Sunday of each month for MOA’s family program series, Culture Club at MOA.
MOA • Free with museum admission
For more than three decades, Elder Larry Grant has been a guiding presence at MOA. A respected Musqueam Elder, educator, and knowledge keeper, he has…
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Learn about MOA’s newest touchable object, Qap’u’luq-John Marston’s Harbour Canoe, now on view in the Great Hall.
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Explore stories and articles from around the web that reflect the values, research, communities and activities related to MOA and museums around the world.
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Learn about MOA’s newest touchable object, Qap’u’luq-John Marston’s Harbour Canoe, now on view in the Great Hall.
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The new MOA Publication, Sea of Islands brings together knowledge holders, scholars, and artists from across the Pacific with Western scholars working with Pacific collections—as well as members of diasporic Oceanic communities—to share the stories and journeys of the objects that comprise Canada’s largest Oceanic collection, housed at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
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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 • 604.827.5932
Art historian April Liu and interdisciplinary visiting Hong Kong artist JC Jessie will lead a bilingual English/Cantonese guided tour of MOA’s stunning Cantonese Opera collection, with a focus on the opera’s innovative approaches to costume design, both past and present.
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Join exhibition organizer Carol E. Mayer, MOA’s Curator of the Pacific for a special tour of Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia.
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Join exhibition organizer Carol E. Mayer, MOA’s Curator of the Pacific for special tours on opening weekend of Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia.
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Join MOA for a special evening of literature, poetry and hip hop by Indigenous artists. Dive into a night with Eden Robinson, Christie Charles and Snotty Nose Rez Kids.
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This 30-minute tour explores Culture at the Centre from an Indigenous perspective. Take a deeper look into this exhibition with members of MOA’s Native Youth Program (NYP), a summer leadership program for urban Indigenous youth. Let them take you through the exhibition’s themes of honouring and supporting culture, history and language—and what those themes mean to them in their own lives.
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Join MOA for a unique full-day experience to celebrate Indigenous knowledge of the land and sea, co-hosted by Terry Point from the Musqueam First Nation and representatives from the Maya in Exile Garden at UBC Farm.
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Join us for a special tour of the unprecedented exhibition Culture at the Centre, led by visiting curators Alison Pascal, from the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, and Stephanie Halapija, from the Nisga’a Museum.
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MOA outdoor tour takes visitors outside to the Museum grounds to see Arthur Erickson’s inspirational architecture, to see contemporary house posts by Musqueam artist Susan Point and to be introduced to the poles on the grounds and the Haida House. Visitors get to visit inside the Haida House and be introduced to poles by artists Bill Reid, Jim Hart, Mungo Martin and others.
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This 30-minute tour introduces the Kwakwaka’wakw Potlatch, a very important First Nations ceremony. Highlighting examples of the regalia worn and the masks and headdresses danced in such ceremonies, this tour provides visitors with the opportunity to handle masks carved by First Nations artists before watching a short video of Potlatch scenes.
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This 30-minute tour offers a look at MOA’s extensive collection of textiles. It will feature the masterworks from the Northwest Coast First Nations collection. Visitors will see examples of clothing and textiles from other cultures and develop an appreciation for resources, tools and techniques used around the globe.
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