MOA is temporarily closed in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Update: May 8 →
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.
Join us for the opening celebrations of Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, a journey through the past 150 years of Canada.
MOA • Free Exhibition Opening Programs
MOA invites you to take part in this special opportunity to hear artist Kent Monkman discuss his artistic practice and the development of the exhibition, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.
Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC • General $25 | UBC Students, Staff, Faculty / MOA Members / Indigenous peoples $20 artist Exhibition Programs
Updated: May 8, 2020—MOA remains temporarily closed to the public in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and does not yet have a date selected to re-open. We are working 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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Do you have an artwork or other mystery object at home that you’ve always wondered about? Let our curators and collections staff offer their expertise.
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Join MOA for a journey of musical discovery from Asia, to Europe and the Americas. Learn about what it takes to create a new album…
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Read an excerpt of the book Divine Threads: The Visual and Material Culture of Cantonese Opera by April Liu, which unravels the strands of memory and migration embedded in a treasure trove of Cantonese opera costumes, props and stage dressings held at MOA.
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Seeing isn’t always believing. Learn about the history of this not-so-authentic flute in MOA’s collections.
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Discover MOA’s extensive contemporary art collection displayed in the Multiversity Galleries and explore Key-Sook Geum’s ethereal wire sculpture that fuses art and fashion.
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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
Got an eye for all things design? Check out this stylized manuscript from MOA’s Multiversity Galleries, which boasts exquisitely geometric calligraphy.
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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 object that the inquirer purchased at a thrift store.
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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 stone tools found in Saskatchewan.
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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 a 19th-century beaver dish owned by the inquirer’s grandfather.
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How can legends and stories connect people across the globe in difficult times? Amabie, a Japanese spirit figure, is being used as an awareness symbol during the pandemic and inspiring a bevy of artistic interpretations—including one by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.
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In 2016 MOA Curator Carol E. Mayer received a call from Robert Stallworthy, the great-great-grandson of the Reverend George Stallworthy, who collected 61 artifacts during his work in the South Pacific over 150 years ago. Now Robert was inquiring whether MOA might be interested in receiving this collection.
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When studying clothing and textiles, it is easy to overlook the urgent contemporary issue of sustainability. MOA Volunteer Associates Marilyn Bild and Arlee Galewe hope to inspire visitors to make positive changes for our global future.
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With her keen eye and commitment to expanding the public’s knowledge, MOA Volunteer Associate Marcie Powell has woven together both research and passion to help MOA document an extraordinary collection of textiles from around the globe.
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What impact does the museum environment have on its collections? Using objects you already have at home, this experiment will teach you how to and test out the impacts of a damp and salty micro-environment.
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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 two carved lamps made in BC that the inquirer inherited.
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