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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
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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