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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Join us on the last Sunday of each month for MOA’s family program series, Culture Club at MOA.
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Join MOA each month for our family program series—Culture Club at MOA.
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“This will become one of the most talked about institutions in North America.” When Michael Ames, the Museum’s director at the time, spoke those words…
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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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Take a tour of Trouble in Paradise: Climate Change in the Pacific with MOA Curator Mitiana Arbon in celebration of the International Day for Biological Diversity.
CANCELLED: Please note that the Trouble in Paradise Tours on May 21 + 22 have been cancelled due to illness. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Trouble in Paradise: Climate Change in the Pacific explores the deep relationships between cultural and biological diversity in the context of environmental changes across the Pacific.
Through photographs by Pacific Islanders and selected highlights from MOA’s collections, the tour reflects on how rising seas, changing ecosystems, and resilient communities are reshaping life across the region. Together, participants are invited to consider the complex ways in which cultural knowledge and biodiversity are intertwined, and what these relationships mean to all humanity in a time of global climate change.
The tour is limited to 25 people; first-come, first-served.
Schedule
Thursday May 21 | 12 pm
Friday May 22 | 12 pm
Biodiversity Days is a month-long event in May, to honour the International Day for Biological Diversity (May 22) with a series of engagement opportunities that aim to celebrate and raise awareness of the fragile species, genes and ecosystems that sustain our communities.
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Mitiana Arbon is the Curator of the Pacific and the Ceramics Collection Program Coordinator at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC. His work bridges cultural institutions and Pacific communities, grounded in the values of service, community, and cultural representation. With a background in Pacific Studies and Museum Studies from the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Mitiana has long been passionate about creating pathways for Pacific communities within educational and cultural institutions.
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Join MOA each month for our new art-making series for adults, Art Club at MOA.
May’s Art Club at MOA is a collaboration with UBC Botanical Garden’s Biodiversity Days, a month-long event that celebrates the International Day for Biological Diversity (May 22). MOA’s activities will honour the biodiversity on display in the Museum. To complement a curator tour given earlier in the day, this month’s craft will be a collage based on the installation, Trouble in Paradise: Climate Change in the Pacific.
Art Club at MOA is a new monthly evening series for adult visitors who are curious about using craft as a way to connect—both with the Museum’s collections and exhibitions, and with one another. Part creative workshop, part social gathering, Art Club offers a relaxed space to slow down, experiment, and make meaning through art. See the full schedule.
Art Club sessions are free and located in the Cedar Café at MOA (does not include admission into the museum).
Limited supplies; first come, first served.
Cedar Café at MOA • Free (museum admission not required)
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Join us for special opening weekend curatorial tours of MOA’s new exhibition, I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson.
On the opening weekend of MOA’s latest feature exhibition, take an in-depth tour with MOA Curator ɬəkʷəlqinəm–Jordan Wilson.
I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson presents a genre-defying body of work by the late Haida artist Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson (1941–2016). From 2005 to 2006, Wilson created 51 “history robes,” documenting her lived experiences and the histories passed down to her, each scene or event located in a distinctly Haida landscape. Pushing into the realm of history painting, genre painting, and folk art, Wilson’s history robes exemplify the highly innovative ways in which Haida and Indigenous artists continuously expand on inherited forms to speak to a changing world.
Limited capacity; first come, first served.
Schedule
Saturday May 16 | 11 am + 1:30 pm
Bio
ɬəkʷəlqinəm–Jordan Wilson is a member of the Musqueam Indian Band, on whose traditional, ancestral and unceded territory MOA is located. He is a PhD candidate in anthropology at New York University and holds a Master of Arts in anthropology and a Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous studies, both from the University of British Columbia. Jordan was the co-curator of the MOA exhibitions, c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city (2015) and the ongoing In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art (2017–). He is co-author of the award-winning MOA Publication, Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art (Figure 1, 2021).
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We invite you to the opening of MOA’s new feature exhibition, I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson.
Enjoy free museum admission (starting at 6 pm) for the opening night of I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson, an exhibition that presents a genre-defying body of work by the late Haida artist Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson (1941–2016). From 2005 to 2006, Wilson created 51 “history robes,” documenting her lived experiences and the histories passed down to her, each scene or event located in a distinctly Haida landscape. Pushing into the realm of history painting, genre painting, and folk art, Wilson’s history robes exemplify the highly innovative ways in which Haida and Indigenous artists continuously expand on inherited forms to speak to a changing world.
Celebrate the opening of our new feature exhibition with free museum admission, opening remarks and a performance by the All Haida Women’s Dance Group—who honour Haida cultural teachings, ancestry, and community through songs and dances.
Free museum admission | 6 pm onwards
Program | 7 – 8 pm
No RSVP required.
Light refreshments will be served (6 pm onwards).
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The All Haida Women’s Dance Group
Representing the Haida Nation with Yaahguudaang (respect), the All Haida Women’s Dance Group shares Haida women’s teachings, culture, song, and dance while fostering connection among Haida women and families living in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
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Join us on the last Sunday of each month for MOA’s family program series, Culture Club at MOA.
For April’s Culture Club at MOA — bring your family’s creativity to the streets! Explore different forms of street art and discover how public spaces can become places of self-expression. Contribute to a communal mural, create a sidewalk chalk masterpiece in front of the museum, or experiment with stencils in the Learning Lab and take home your own original artwork.
We’ll also have all-ages storybooks and colouring sheets available throughout the day.
Limited supplies; first come, first served.
About Culture Club at MOA
Join MOA on the last Sunday of each month for Culture Club! Drop in and enjoy engaging art-making activities designed for families. This series offers young visitors artful learning opportunities, allowing families to get creative and connect with MOA’s diverse collections and exhibitions. See the full schedule.
Culture Club at MOA is made possible by the generous support of UBC Campus + Community Planning
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Join MOA each month for our art-making series for adults, Art Club at MOA.
April’s Art Club at MOA will celebrate Coming Together: The Objects We Meet and the Stories They Carry, a new exhibition by this year’s UBC ANTH 431: Museum Practice and Curatorship class. This month’s craft is mini display box making and decorating, highlighting the unique, personal stories at the heart of this student exhibition.
Art Club at MOA is a new monthly evening series for adult visitors who are curious about using craft as a way to connect—both with the Museum’s collections and exhibitions, and with one another. Part creative workshop, part social gathering, Art Club offers a relaxed space to slow down, experiment, and make meaning through art. See the full schedule.
Art Club sessions are free and located in the Cedar Café at MOA (does not include admission into the museum).
Limited supplies; first come, first served.
Cedar Café at MOA • Free (museum admission not required)
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We invite you to the opening celebrations of Coming Together: The Objects We Meet and the Stories They Carry, curated by the UBC students of the ANTH 431 class.
If objects could speak, what stories would they tell? This undergraduate student exhibition follows brings together 16 different objects in MOA’s collection to answer that very question.
Over the course of eight months, the students of ANTH 431 explored the central theme of storytelling by spending time with objects that resonated with them, searching for associated records, and listening to expert knowledge-holders.
Coming Together refers to the breadth of objects they have chosen to display and their experiences with them. Whether through distance, time, or record-keeping, some of the objects have been disconnected from their lives, making their stories challenging to share.
This exhibition was curated by UBC students of ANTH 431: Museum Practice and Curatorship.
Program | 6:30 pm
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Join MOA for a screening of a short documentary on Canadian artist Mildred Valley Thornton.
A woman ahead of her time, Thornton defied convention, embraced adventure, and sought to build connections between Indigenous and settler communities through her work. The screening will be followed by a short Q+A with filmmaker Shay Wilson and Anthony Westbridge (Westbridge Fine Art), moderated by MOA’s Curator of Indigenous Engagement, Damara Jacobs-Petersen.
All attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Owas-Ka-Ta-Esk-Ean, Indigenous Portraits by Mildred Valley Thornton, FRSA (1890-1967), the recently published catalogue raisonné of almost 300 Indigenous portraits painted over a career spanning more than 40 years.
Limited capacity. First come, first served.
23 minute runtime followed by Q+A.
Bio
Born in 1890 in Dresden, Ontario, Mildred Valley Thornton’s family moved to Regina in 1913. There she became fascinated with the Plains Indians. By 1926 she was married with children, nevertheless she spent weeks at a time away from home, living with different native communities across the prairies, gaining the trust and acceptance of her subjects, who permitted her to attend ceremonies and rituals seldom seen by non-Natives. She felt responsible for capturing Canada’s Native history in written word and in paintings.
When the depression hit in the 1930s, Thornton and her family moved to British Columbia, where she was enchanted by the natural landscape and continued to study and paint the local native populations. She spent time in London, England, where her work was exhibited at the Royal Commonwealth Institutes. She returned to Vancouver in 1961, but was victim to failing health. She died in 1967. Although the Canadian government has refused her collection, Thornton received many honors, including two from native tribes. The Kwakiutl tribe of British Columbia made her a princess of the Clan Eagle and named her “Ah-ou-Mookht,” meaning “the one who wears the blanket because she is of noble birth,” and the Crees named her “Owas-ka-esk-ean” or “putting your best ability for us Indians.”
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On the closing day of Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images, join artist Kunsang Kyirong and MOA Curator Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura for a meet-and-greet in the exhibition.
Learn more about the exhibition and the process behind it, and take one final look at this thought-provoking show before it closes. Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images reimagines Tibet by examining how it has been represented historically by outsiders and how Tibetans today represent and speak about their own histories and identities. Developed in collaboration with Tibetan Canadian community members and artists, the exhibition highlights both Tibet’s rich cultural heritage and its contemporary political context, centering Tibetan voices and perspectives throughout.
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Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura (中村冬日) is a socio-cultural anthropologist and is the curator of Entangled Territories: Tibet through Images. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and Curator, Asia at the Museum of Anthropology, the University of British Columbia. Since visiting Dharamsala in India in 1995 and Tibet and Nepal in the 2010s, the Himalayan region has remained one of her research interests. While a graduate student at the University of Oxford, she worked on the “The Tibet Album: British Photography in Central Tibet 1920–1950” project and the Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936-1947 exhibition (2003) at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford.
ཧྥུ་ཡུ་བྷི་ནཱ་ཁ་མུ་ར་ནི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དང་རིག་གཞུང་གི་མི་རྒྱུད་དཔྱད་རིག་ཆེད་མཁས་ཤིག་ཡིན་ལ། དཀའ་རྙོག་ནང་གི་ཡུལ་སྡེ། པར་རིས་ནང་གི་བོད་ཅེས་པའི་གོ་སྒྲིག་པ་རེད། ཁོང་ནི་ཡུ་བྷི་སི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་གི་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱི་ཕྱག་སྦྲེལ་སློབ་དཔོན་དང་མི་རྒྱུད་དཔྱད་རིག་འགྲེམ་སྟོན་ཁང་གི་ཨེ་ཤ་ཡའི་ཁུར་ལེན་མགོ་འདོན་པ་རེད། ༡༩༩༥ ལོར་རྡ་རམ་ས་ལར་གཟིགས་སྐོར་དང་། དེ་རྗེས་ ༢༠༡༠ ལོར་བོད་དང་བལ་ཡུལ་ ནང་གཟིགས་སྐོར་བྱས་པ་ནས་བཟུང་ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡའི་མངའ་ཁུལ་ནི་ཁོང་གི་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ཁྱབ་ཁོངས་གཙོ་བོ་ཞིག་ཡིན་འདུགཁོང་ཉིད་ཨོ་ཁི་སི་ཧྥོར་ཌི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭའི་མཐར་ཕྱིན་པ་ཞིག་ཡིན་སྟབས། ཁོང་གིས་བོད་ཀྱི་པར་དེབ། ༡༩༢༠ ལོ་ནས་༡༩༥༠ལོའོ་བར་གྱི་དབྱིན་ཇིའི་པར་རིས། ཞེས་པའི་ལས་འཆར་སྐོར་ལ་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་བ་དང་། ལྷ་ས་མཇལ་བ། ༡༩༣༦ ལོ་ནས་༡༩༤༧ལོའི་བར་དབྱིན་ཇིས་པར་དུ་བླངས་པའི་བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་སའི་པར་རིས། ཞེས་པ་ ༢༠༠༣ ལོར་ཕི་ཊི་གཙང་བོའི་འགྲེམ་སྟོན་ཁང་དུ་ཚུགས་པའི་འགྲེམ་སྟོན་སྐབས་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
Kunsang Kyirong is a first-generation Tibetan Canadian filmmaker and artist from Vancouver, Canada. Her films integrate documentary methods with fiction, often exploring the impacts of immigration on culture and human relationships. She graduated with a BFA in 2D + Experimental Animation from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2020, and is completing an MFA in Film Production at York University, Toronto.
སྐྱིད་གྲོང་ཀུན་བཟང་ནི་ཁེ་ན་ཌའི་ཝན་ཁོ་ཝར་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་དང་གློག་བརྙན་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་པ་དང་། མི་ཐོག་དང་པོའི་བོད་པ་རེད། མོ་རང་གི་གློག་བརྙན་རྣམས་ནི་དངོས་བྱུང་དང་བཅོས་སྒྲུང་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ཐབས་ལམ་སྤྱད་ནས་བཟོ་བཞིན་པ་དང་། བརྗོད་དོན་ཕལ་ཆེ་བ་ནི་ཡུལ་མི་གནས་སྤོར་བས་རིག་གཞུང་དང་མིའི་འབྲེལ་བར་ཤུགས་རྐྱེན་ཇི་ལྟར་ཐེབས་ཀྱིན་པའི་སྐོར་ལ་འཚོལ་ཞིབ་བྱེད་ཀྱིན་ཡོད་པ་རེད། ཁོ་མོ་ ༢༠༢༠ ལོར་ཨེ་མི་ལི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་དང་ཇུས་འགོད་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནས་ཚོད་ལྟའི་འགུལ་རིས་དང་ +2D ཡི་མཛེས་རྩལ་སློབ་གཉེར་མཐར་ཕྱིན་པ་རེད། ད་ལྟ་ཊོ་རོན་ཊོ་ཡོར་ཁི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནས་མཛེས་རྩལ་རིག་གནས་རབ་འབྱམས་པ་འཐོན་མུས་རེད།
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Join us on the last Sunday of each month for MOA’s family program series, Culture Club at MOA.
To mark the start of spring, join us to chase away the dark winter months and celebrate the return of the sun. Create handmade kites with your family to play with outdoors, and design suncatchers to welcome the warmth of the sun into your own home. All-ages storybooks and colouring sheets will also be available.
Limited supplies; first come, first served.
About Culture Club at MOA
Join MOA on the last Sunday of each month for Culture Club! Drop in and enjoy engaging art-making activities designed for families. This series offers young visitors artful learning opportunities, allowing families to get creative and connect with MOA’s diverse collections and exhibitions. See the full schedule.
Culture Club at MOA is made possible by the generous support of UBC Campus + Community Planning
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