Visit MOA! We have reopened—with new safety measures and timed-entry tickets Plan your visit →
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.
MOA's Great Hall will be 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.
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A Story of Resilience — By Kent Monkman
A Story of Resilience — By Kent Monkman
Preserving What We Value
Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art
Join Dr. June Scudeler (Métis), assistant professor in Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University, and Issaku Inami, MOA Volunteer Associate Gallery Host and queer activist, for an virtual presentation and discussion on the queer Indigenous resilience, sexuality and eroticism of Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.
Online via Zoom • Free, registration required Exhibition Programs
MOA is partnering with VocalEye, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to making public programming accessible for the blind and partially sighted, to offer an online recorded curatorial tour of Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience with supplementary description by VocalEye and a Q + A to follow.
Online via Zoom • Free, registration via VocalEye required Exhibition Programs
Online • Free
The Museum of Anthropology at UBC is honoured to be the final stop on the national tour of Cree artist Kent Monkman’s exhibition, Shame and…
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Updated: July 8, 2020—MOA is re-open to the public after a temporary closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We have worked hard to develop and implement a process to safely re-open for our visitors and staff, in accordance with all provincial health directives.
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Here 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.
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This Fall, preparations will begin for a rebuild of its Great Hall at MOA to upgrade the resiliency of the museum and protect its irreplaceable collection in the event of a major earthquake.
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Jill Baird, Curator, Education, shared a warm conversation with artist and dancer Mike Dangeli of the Nisga’a, Tlingit, Tsetsaut, and Tsimshian Nations. Recently, Mike gifted…
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Ask MOA: What Is It? is your opportunity to ask MOA Curators and Collections staff about an artwork or other mystery object at home that you’ve always wondered about. This featured Ask MOA case responds to an inquiry about This featured Ask MOA case is a totem pole inherited by the inquirer from her late father who originally bought it in Vancouver.
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UBC has received a donation of $3 million from alumnus Michael Audain, OC, OBC, one of B.C.’s most ardent champions of the visual arts, to…
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Discover MOA’s extensive contemporary art collection displayed in the Multiversity Galleries, and explore Métis artist Alexis Macdonald Seto’s subversive reclamation of a vintage children’s book.
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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
Yahguudangang is a Haida concept meaning to pay respect. In the summer of 2019, the University of British Columbia returned a mortuary pole to the…
Ask MOA: What Is It? is your opportunity to ask MOA Curators and Collections staff about an artwork or other mystery object at home that…
Ask MOA: What Is It? is your opportunity to ask MOA Curators and Collections staff about an artwork or other mystery object at home that…
People Among the People is a book that celebrates the public art of one of Canada’s most accomplished artists and designers. ʔəy̓xwatiyə, Susan Point is…
This article has been translated into Spanish: Click here to read. Via Radio Canadá International. “Be kind, be calm, be safe.” With these words, Dr….
Have you ever looked into the eyes of a totem pole? Noticing the details of their form can be a helpful clue when you are…
Ask MOA: What Is It? is your opportunity to ask MOA Curators and Collections staff about an artwork or other mystery object at home that…
Ask MOA: What Is It? is your opportunity to ask MOA Curators and Collections staff about an artwork or other mystery object at home that…
What kind of gaze can a museum cultivate? While MOA’s Multiversity Galleries displays thousands of historical ethnographic objects from around the world, visitors may be…
In addition to its extensive object collection, the Museum of Anthropology also houses a valuable collection of archival material. MOA’s Archives is part of the…
