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.
MOA’s Great Hall is being prepared for important seismic upgrades in November and December 2018. During this time, visitors will see the iconic space in transition as poles located in the Great Hall are lowered and moved. The poles will be placed into temporary storage where visitors can watch them undergo conservation.
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Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia
Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia
Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art
Preserving What We Value
Daily public tours are held several times a day.
All public tours are free with museum admission. See tour schedule.
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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Discover the hidden stories of Cantonese Opera in Vancouver through a trail of shimmering costumes, feathered headdresses and magical talismans. Art historian April Liu will share the behind-the-scenes stories of Cantonese Opera as it travelled the world during the early 20th century, transforming Vancouver’s Chinatown into a major hub of operatic activity.
MOA • Free with museum admission Programs
You might be surprised to learn what this robe from Siberia is made out of.
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In this second of three posts, learn more about the artists featured in the exhibition Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia as she reflects on her work: how she learned to paint, what subjects she has painted, and why.
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You might be surprised to learn what this robe from Siberia is made out of.
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Discover MOA’s extensive contemporary art collection displayed in the Multiversity Galleries, starting with Tania Willard’s woodblock print that depicts the gendered labour symptomatic of Canada’s colonial history.
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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
Closed on Mondays
Closed on Mondays
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
6 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
10:30 am: Multiversity Galleries Tour (30 minutes)
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
1:30 pm: Multiversity Galleries Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
MOA Tour (60 minutes)
This tour explores the highlights of the many galleries at MOA. The tour provides visitors with an introduction to MOA’s Northwest Coast collections, the Koerner European Ceramics collection and the Multiversity Galleries, as well as an in-depth look at Bill Reid’s The Raven and the First Men. You will also be introduced to the themes of any temporary exhibitions.
Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
Join MOA’s experienced Gallery Guides on a 30-minute tour of their choice, offering you a new perspective of the Museum and its collections. Each day the Gallery Guide will select one of the following tours to give: Clothing the World Tour, Northwest Coast Highlights Tour, Outside Tour or Potlatch Tour
Multiversity Galleries Tour (30 minutes)
This 30-minute tour explores objects of Art and Activism in the Multiversity Galleries from an Indigenous perspective. Members of MOA’s Native Youth Program, a leadership program for urban Indigenous youth, take you through the Multiversity Galleries to look at the interconnections between culture, environment, art and activism—and what those themes mean to them in their own lives. The tour will grab your attention with issues that matter about Indigenous experiences, environmental issues, and the power of art to represent people and ideas.
Women take the stage in MOA’s Great Hall for an electrifying night of music at this special edition of Sound House, MOA’s new monthly music series.
Bring your friends and dancing shoes for this fantastic line-up of local women musicians who will wow you with jazz, funk-soul and hip hop. The artists of this blow-out night, who hail from all over the world, bring diverse traditions and inspirations to create vibrant, inclusive artistic communities right here in Vancouver.
The night features a powerhouse lineup of incredible women artists, activists and community builders: jazz trio Fines Triddum featuring multi-instrumentalist Feven Kidane, jazz drummer KeAloha Noelani and jazz pianist Suin Park; Old Soul Rebel featuring Lola Whyte on vocals and electric banjo and Chelsea Johnson on vocals and electric guitar; rapper Missy D; emcee Kimmortal; hip hop, spoken word, beat-box artist and cultural dancer JB the First Lady (Nuxalk/Onondaga); plus a street-dance performance produced by the emcee for the evening, Char Loro of ShapeShifterStudio with Kosi, Momo, and Marisa Gold—in the styles of breaking, hip-hop, house, contemporary, and spoken word poetry.
International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
March 7
Doors open| 7 pm
Performances | 7:30 pm
MOA • FREE with museum admission Performance Program
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Join us for a special evening of Indigenous music featuring Ainu singers from Hokkaidō and a Haida singer from British Columbia.
Ainu singers Mayunkiki and Tomoe Yahata from Hokkaidō share the stage with Haida singer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson to perform an evening of remarkable music. They’ll be joined by Terri-Lynn’s band members: Bill Henderson, Claire Lawrence, Jodi Proznick, Saffron Henderson and Camille Henderson.
The Ainu peoples are Indigenous to the Hokkaidō island of Japan and the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands of Russia.
This event is organized in conjunction with the Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond workshop by the Centre for Japanese Research at UBC to mark the 150th anniversary of the 1869 incorporation of the island of Hokkaidō, or Ainu Moshir.
MOA • Free with museum admission Performance Program
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