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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.
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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.
Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake /
東日本大震災後のアートと暮らし
Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake /
東日本大震災後のアートと暮らし
Preserving What We Value
Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art
Join MOA for a virtual conversation with Kazuki Isomura and Saki Kojo, members of the Lost Homes Scale Model Restoration Project, featured in A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake. Facilitated by MOA Curator, Fuyubi Nakamura.
Online via Zoom | Zoomでのオンラインイベント|登録は必要ですが、無料イベントです。 • Free, registration required
Join MOA for a virtual conversation with Atsunobu Katagiri, a featured artist in A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fumihiko Futakami, Curator of the Minamisōma City Museum. The conversation will be facilitated by MOA Curator Fuyubi Nakamura.
Online via Zoom | Zoomでのオンラインイベント | 登録は必要ですが、無料イベントです • Free, registration required.
Updated: May 18, 2021—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.
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Seismic 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.
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The Museum of Anthropology at UBC stands with all Indigenous peoples at this time of mourning and widespread sorrow, following the tragic discovery of the unmarked burials of 215 Indigenous children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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How should museums respond to current events or issues in the world? MOA’s new Responsive Dialogues series addresses pressing issues of the moment by making connections to what we do at MOA. The first dialogue in the series is about racism in Canada.
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In 2018, Jennifer Kramer, MOA Curator of the Pacific Northwest, was invited at the Frank Nelson Memorial Potlatch in Alert Bay to witnessed the dancing of Ninini (Earthquake), a supernatural being with whom the Nelson family has connections since time immemorial.
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In this ongoing online event series we invite you to learn about the work we do at the Museum of Anthropology, the community members we work with, and the shared interests that bring us together.
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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
Jennifer Kramer, MOA Curator, Pacific Northwest, shared a lively conversation with Nuxalk and shíshálh artist Dionne Paul (Ximiq) about her Nuxalk woven headdress with fibre optics…
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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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Congratulations to Coral Shaughnessy-Moon, this year’s winner of the MOA Shop Annual Emerging Indigenous Artist Contest. Coral’s design, Ha̱yulis tła̱n’s ma̱lkwa̱lał (We Will Always Remember), hopes…
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Did you know that the MOA Library + Archives has a variety of 2SLGBTQ+ books, many of which centre Indigenous voices and experiences? In celebration of…
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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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This video series documents traditional Indigenous Knowledge Keepers as they teach us about the ancient art traditions of cedar harvest, Indigenous plants, and salmon fishing.
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Home Rhythms with MOA is a new music lesson series offered to families and kids of all ages. These educational videos demonstrate the process of building collaborative music at home—no fancy instruments necessary!
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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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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 is about an ornate porcelain vase acquired by the inquirer’s great-grandfather in Ireland.
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Discover MOA’s collection of contemporary works by Indigenous women artists in the Multiversity Galleries. Learn more about this pair of moccasins by Charlene Vickers that speak to the commodification of Indigenous culture.
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