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.
It’s a night for the grownups to play at MOA’s first-ever puppet slam. There’s nothing kid-friendly about this gut-splitting night of raunchy and raucous puppets.
MOA's Haida House • Free with museum admission Performance Program
MOA’s popular Sound House series returns for its second season. For the October edition, Ezra Kwizera and his band offer a zesty yet soulful mix of reggae, soca, East African bongo, and pop.
MOA • $15 (includes museum admission) Performance Programs
MOA’s retail space was established in 1977, just one year after MOA opened its doors of its current home. Over the past 42 years, the MOA Shop has continually found new ways to instill a sense of curiosity, discovery and learning in its visitors.
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Although beating a lali traditionally signalled a ceremonial event in Fujian culture, it doesn’t have to be a special occasion to tap this drum in the Multiversity Galleries.
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Although beating a lali traditionally signalled a ceremonial event in Fujian culture, it doesn’t have to be a special occasion to tap this drum in the Multiversity Galleries.
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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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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
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
3:30 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
3:30 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
3:30 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
3:30 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
3:30 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 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)
3:30 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
3:30 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
11 am: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
1 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 minutes)
2 pm: MOA Tour (60 minutes)
3:30 pm: Guide’s Choice Tour (30 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
Outdoor Tour (30 minutes)
This tour takes visitors outside to the Museum grounds to see Arthur Erickson’s inspirational architecture. Visitors will be introduced to the contemporary house posts by Musqueam artist Susan Point, and poles by artists Bill Reid, Jim Hart, Mungo Martin and others, as well as visit inside the Haida House.
Cultures autochtones de la Côte Nord-Ouest (30 minutes)
Cette visite guidée se concentre sur des pièces en bois de cèdre, représentatives de divers groupes culturels de la Côte Nord-Ouest : les Musqueam, les Kwakwaka’wakw et les Haïda. La visite donne priorité aux grands mâts sculptés, aux coffres en bois plié, (aux plats de festins cérémoniaux), aux canoës, à la vannerie et aux masques cérémoniaux, ainsi qu’à la sculpture de Bill Reid Le Grand Corbeau et les premiers hommes.
It’s a night for the grownups to play at MOA’s first-ever puppet slam. There’s nothing kid-friendly about this gut-splitting night of raunchy and raucous puppets.
What is a puppet slam, you ask? Puppeteers of all stripes perform their acts for an allotted amount of time and are judged by a panel of judges. Audience participation is strongly encouraged. For maximum surprise-factor, the puppet-wielding competitors are only revealed to the audience and to each other at the slam.
The night is hosted by Slam Master, Dusty Hagerüd, Vancouver’s go-to puppet doctor and MOA’s current artist-in-residence. Dusty is MOA’s Artist-in-Residence until September 2019, during which time he’s been creating his fuzzy and fabulous puppets in MOA’s Great Hall.
For (immature) mature audiences only.
MC biography
Dusty Hagerüd is originally from Fernie, BC, and a member of the Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Nations of the Lower East Kootenays. Since childhood, he has been enchanted by the world of puppets, and draws inspiration from the animated puppets of Jim Henson, Noreen Young and Paul Fusco. As the creative director and founder of Color Sound Lab Puppet Makers, Dusty has been performing and designing puppets for 20 years, in a broad range of styles from marionettes, hand and rod puppets to 2-D paper puppets, Bunraku and shadow puppets.
MOA's Haida House • Free with museum admission Performance Program
MOA’s popular Sound House series returns for its second season. For the October edition, Ezra Kwizera and his band offer a zesty yet soulful mix of reggae, soca, East African bongo, and pop.
With linguistic agility, Ezra fluidly sings and raps in English, Kinyarwanda, Luganda, Zulu and Swahili. Growing up as a refugee in Uganda before moving back to his home country Rwanda after the 1994 genocide, Ezra is driven to support Rwandans through his music to rebuild their country. Ezra is joined by Knowledge Majon (Zimbabwe) on drums, Ettienne Mangala (Kenya) on bass, Josh (Nigeria) on piano and Brian Thiessen (Canada) on guitar.
Sound House is MOA’s new music series, now in its second season, featuring a fantastic and eclectic lineup of Vancouver bands and musicians—from folk to funk, hip hop to jazz. Sound House is a celebration of culture and music, set in MOA’s Haida House, against a stunning backdrop of Northwest Coast art and architecture. Gather around the toasty bonfire outside with friends and drinks, and let the picturesque views and scent of cedar inhabit your senses. Sound House delivers surprises and delights on the first Thursday of each month.
Doors | 7 pm
Performance | 7:30 pm
MOA • $15 (includes museum admission) Performance Programs
