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It takes a skilled, dedicated, and diverse team of people to run a museum. In this video series we share the different voices and perspectives…
Visit MOA! New safety measures + timed-entry tickets in effect. (Updated January 4, 2021) Plan your visit →
MOA is open and we have implemented COVID-19 procedures and physical distancing measures—for your safety, and ours—including the mandatory use of face masks. (Updated November 9, 2020)
Learn MoreMonday |
Closed |
Tuesday |
10 am – 5 pm |
Wednesday |
10 am – 5 pm |
Thursday |
10 am – 5 pm |
Friday |
10 am – 5 pm |
Saturday |
10 am – 5 pm |
Sunday |
10 am – 5 pm |
Tuesday – Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm |
Tuesday – Sunday, 10 am – 4:30 pm |
By appointment only |
Contact library@moa.ubc.ca |
To visit MOA, you must pre-book a timed-entry ticket online at tickets.ubc.ca/moa.
$15 |
Adult |
$13 |
Senior (65+) |
$13 |
Student |
$35 |
Family (2 adults, 4 children) |
Free |
Children 6 or under |
Free |
UBC students, staff + faculty |
Free |
Indigenous peoples |
Free |
MOA Members |
Rates reflect a discount due to Great Hall seismic upgrades (effective Jan 4, 2021) |
Big changes are underway in MOA's Great Hall, which is receiving seismic upgrades in order to augment its structural integrity and help preserve the invaluable cultural significance and living heritage of the world-renowned Northwest Coast First Nations collection housed within it.
Learn MoreFrom 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.
Find unique items from around the world at the MOA Shop.
Visit the ShopSpaces at MOA can be rented for weddings, corporate and community events.
Learn MorePreserving What We Value
Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art
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.
Online via Zoom • Free, registration required
Online • Free
Updated: December 10, 2020—MOA is open to the public with rigorous COVID-19 protocols. We continue to work hard to adjust and implement a process to safely welcome our visitors and staff, in accordance with all provincial health directives.
Read MoreSeismic upgrades and rebuild of MOA’s Great Hall are now underway, in order to strengthen the Museum’s resiliency and protect its irreplaceable collection in the event of a major earthquake.
Read MoreIn this ongoing video series we share the different voices and perspectives that create an environment that simultaneously preserves the past, celebrates the present, and helps pave the path into the future.
Read MoreHere are some online MOA resources for you to enjoy online, from home. In these difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s more important than ever to keep culture in your daily life.
Read MoreExplore MOA’s nearly 50,000 objects now on the Collections Online (MOA-CAT) system.
Visit Collections OnlineMOA’s ethnographic objects come from around world, including the South Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Learn MoreThe Conservation department is responsible for the care, use and preservation of the collections that are housed at MOA.
Learn MoreThe Curatorial department supports initiatives — including research, exhibitions and publishing — that help to build respectful relationships and mutual understanding with cultural communities represented through MOA’s collections.
Learn MoreThe Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives Department at MOA includes a library, an archive, and an oral history and language lab.
Learn MoreMOA 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.
Learn MoreMOA supports the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including originating communities’ right to “maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expression.”
Learn MoreMOA needs volunteers! Learn how to join our team.
Learn MoreWelcome to the Museum of Anthropology, a place of world arts and cultures with a special emphasis on the First Nations peoples and other cultural communities of British Columbia, Canada.
Read MoreMuseum 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
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MOA acknowledges that it is built on the traditional, ancestral and unceded land of the Musqueam people.