On the Artful Path: Potlatch Dress
Discover MOA’s collection of contemporary works by Indigenous women artists in the Multiversity Galleries. Learn more about the meticulously hand-woven Potlatch Dress by t’at’miye, Danielle Morsette.
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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.
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April 8, 2026 marks UBC Giving Day—a 24-hour campus-wide fundraising event aimed at bringing together the community to maximize awareness, engagement, and fundraising for important causes…
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For more than three decades, Elder Larry Grant has been a guiding presence at MOA. A respected Musqueam Elder, educator, and knowledge keeper, he has…
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Learn about MOA’s newest touchable object, Qap’u’luq-John Marston’s Harbour Canoe, now on view in the Great Hall.
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Explore stories and articles from around the web that reflect the values, research, communities and activities related to MOA and museums around the world.
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Explore 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.
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Learn about MOA’s newest touchable object, Qap’u’luq-John Marston’s Harbour Canoe, now on view in the Great Hall.
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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.
Read 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.
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Learn MoreThe Museum of Anthropology at UBC is a dynamic and challenging work environment that offers a range of roles for professionals and students.
Work at MOAMOA 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.”
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Discover MOA’s collection of contemporary works by Indigenous women artists in the Multiversity Galleries. Learn more about the meticulously hand-woven Potlatch Dress by t’at’miye, Danielle Morsette.
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MOA is fortunate to have a large, beautiful old Salish loom in the collection. It was made sometime in the early 1900s for Mrs. Bartleman,…
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Susan Rowley, MOA Curator, Arctic + Public Archeology, shared a candid phone call with acclaimed Musqueam weaver and multidisciplinary artist Debra Sparrow. Their wide-ranging conversation…
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With many many of us spending more time at home due to the pandemic, there’s no better time to look within your own home for stories of inspiration, creativity, history and identity. What objects in your life would you curate for your #MuseumofMe?
It was 17 years ago, on June 11, 2003, that Haida artist Yalthgwaawiis, Francis Williams, passed away from cancer. A long-time friend of MOA, he…
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In May 2018, Carol Mayer visited the island of Erub, in the Torres Strait, north of Australia, to document the creation of Eip Kor Korr, a sculpture made of synthetic fishing nets.
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Since 2015, a team of research volunteers, staff and students have been focusing on reclassifying and “decolonizing” the African collections at MOA.
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The primary role of MOA’s Volunteer Research Committee is to provide in-depth information about particular items in the MOA Collection, as directed by the curators….
Read MoreIn light of the death of George Floyd and the protests that have erupted in response to his murder and to other systemic forms of racism across the continent, MOA asserts our resolute support for peaceful, anti-racist action and education.
MOA reiterates our commitment in all our work to our fundamental values of respect, inclusiveness, engagement, care and service. We call on all of us—institutions, communities, governments and individuals—to act together in good faith to advance the causes of reform and reconciliation, to help create a better future.
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Read an excerpt of the book Divine Threads: The Visual and Material Culture of Cantonese Opera by April Liu.
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