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 MOA and Indspire, a national Indigenous charity, for a special virtual artist talk with acclaimed Cree artist Kent Monkman.
Online via Zoom • Free, registration 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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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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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
The COVID-19 virus poses a risk to all of us, but the pandemic does not affect all of us the same way. This is the time to respect and learn from each other, rather than ignite the flames of xenophobia.
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Have you ever looked into the eyes of a totem pole? MOA Curator, Karen Duffek, reflects on how the late, great Nisga’a artist, Norman Tait, learned to look closely at how eyes were carved when studying the art of his ancestors.
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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 answers two different inquiries about woven baskets.
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Discover MOA’s extensive contemporary art collection displayed in the Multiversity Galleries by exploring this elk-skin drum, which serves as a visual record of a collaboration between Peter Morin and Hwieumten, Fred Roland.
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In addition to its extensive object collection, the Museum of Anthropology also houses a valuable collection of archival material, including the journals of the late artist and award-winning author, Hilary Stewart. Here we see the sketches and notes from a 1972 trip to ’Ksan in Gitxsan territory.
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MOA Library + Archives Assistant Clara Gimenez-Delgado articulates the challenging emotional dimensions that can come with archival work.
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BC HERN is a growing network of cultural institutions committed to supporting each other to recover collections after an emergency and providing webinar training for non-conservators or conservators alike.
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Enjoy this intricate 19th-century incense set from China bearing Arabic inscriptions that represents a fusion of cultures within Asia.
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Support from individuals ensures that MOA can continue to preserve and share our worldwide collections with wide audiences, and remain a source of engagement and support to our community in these difficult times.
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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 contemporary carving by an Inuit artist purchased in Vancouver.
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