Museum of Anthropology at UBC

At MOA, we believe museums should be welcoming and accessible spaces for everyone. Did you know that MOA is an **AccessNow Verified** museum? AccessNow Verified locations provide detailed, real-world accessibility information to help visitors plan their experience with confidence. Some of MOA’s accessibility features include: ♿ Step-free access and galleries located on one level ♿ Wheelchair and mobility scooter accessibility ♿ Accessible washrooms ♿ Wheelchair rental available 🐕 Guide and service dogs welcome 🪑 Seating throughout the museum for rest and reflection ♿️🅿️ Three accessible parking spots We know accessibility needs are diverse, and we’re committed to making MOA a place where more people can connect with art and culture. If you have any accessibility feedback for MOA on your next visit, please feel free to fill out a comment card or contact staff directly. 🔗 Link to MOA’s AccessNow profile in bio 👉 Follow @accessnowapp Slides 1,2,4, 6-7 +9: Courtesy of AccessNow and @destination_vancouver Slide 3: Nicole with PADS (@padsdogs ) Ranger. Photo by Kristi Fuoco (@kristifuoco ). Slide 5: PADS Greco (@pads.greco ). Slide 8: An assistance dog at a MOA event. Photo by Sarah Race (@odearrr ). [Image description: Nine images showing accessibility at MOA, including a wheelchair user exploring indoor and outdoor museum spaces, accessing gallery drawers and digital interactives, service dogs at MOA (including PADS Assistance dogs), and collapsible chairs available for visitor use.] #VisitMOA #MuseumOfAnthropology #museum #ubc #accessibility #AccessNow

Step into MOA’s feature exhibition, Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision through the eyes of guest curator Luis Manuel González. In this reel, Luis shares how nearly 100 ancient Andean works—some over 2,500 years old—reveal a worldview rooted in balance, reciprocity, and the deep connections between people, ancestors, and the natural world. “Tupananchiskama” means “until life brings us together again”—a reflection on cycles of life, death, and renewal that still resonate today. 🎥 Listen, reflect, and connect with an ancient way of knowing and seeing the world. 🔛 On now until January 3, 2027 🗣️ Luis Manuel González is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at UBC and Research Associate at the University of Toronto. A licensed archaeologist trained in Lima, Peru, he brings 20+ years of fieldwork across the Andes. His research explores ancient civilizations and regional connections—especially among Lima, Moche, Nasca, and Wari societies—alongside interests in bioarchaeology, foodways, and ancient lifeways. 📹: Kristi Fuoco (@kristifuoco ) #VisitMOA #MuseumOfAnthropologyVancouver #ubc #museum #Peru

Summer hours (and sunsets) are back! ☀️🌅 MOA is now open seven days a week for the summer season including this coming Monday, May 18 for the Victoria Day long weekend. Visit the Museum, Shop, and Café any day of the week—and enjoy late hours on Thursdays. 🕙 May 15 – October 15, 2026 Monday – Sunday | 10 am – 5 pm Thursdays | Open until 9 pm (half price admission after 5) Bask in our new summer hours seven days a week! We look forward to seeing you soon. ✨ 📷: @kristifuoco [Image description: Sunset light fills MOA’s Great Hall, casting a warm glow across towering carved poles silhouetted against the evening sky.] #VisitMOA #MuseumOfAnthropology #ubc #museum #culture #Indigenous #sunsets

Tomorrow, the doors open to something extraordinary. ⭐️ Join us on Thursday, May 14 for the opening night of I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson — with FREE museum admission to MOA starting at 6 PM. This powerful new exhibition brings together 51 extraordinary “history robes” by late Haida artist Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson (1941–2016), documenting lived experiences, memory, and Haida histories across distinctly Haida landscapes. Opening Night: ✨ Free museum admission from 6 PM onwards ✨ Opening remarks + a performance by The All Haida Women’s Dance Group | 7–8 PM ✨ Light refreshments served ✨ No RSVP required Come celebrate the opening of this remarkable exhibition with us at MOA. 🎉 👤 Curated by ɬəkʷəlqinəm–Jordan Wilson 🎥: Bonnie Sun #VisitMOA #MuseumOfAnthropology #ubc #museum #Indigenous

This Mother’s Day, we’re celebrating the moms and caregivers who bring curiosity, care, and connection into the Museum. 💛 At MOA, visits become opportunities to share stories, learn together, and experience cultures and creativity across generations. Spend the day exploring the galleries, discovering new perspectives, and making memories together. ✨ We’re open today from 10 am to 5 pm — we look forward to welcoming you. 📷: Sarah Race (@odearrr ) #VisitMOA #MuseumOfAnthropologyVancouver #ubc #museum

Announcing the call for applications for the "RUA I TE Performance Research + Workshop" facilitated by Charles Koroneho [Aotearoa] w/ Jeanette Kotowich [MST Territories] @moa_ubc Jun 29, 30, Jul 2 + 3, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm Museum of Anthrpology Full workshop = $150 Mornings or Afternoons = $100 Apply by May 25 [link in bio] The workshop will explore the ancestral body, material culture and the artefact. It's designed as an open level creative exchange and exploratory space for dance artists, theatre practitioners, embodied researchers, visual artists, designers, performance artists + interdisciplinary collaborators. Hosted by @tetokiharuru @vidfestival @moa_ubc @dancersofdamelahamid w/ support from @bcartscouncil This marks a significant occasion for VIDF and Coastal Dance Festival, as we embark on our first activity outside of our usual festival seasons 👏

🔜 Opening in one week! Enjoy free admission to MOA next Thursday, May 14 (from 6 pm) for the opening of I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson. The exhibition brings together, for the first time, a series of 50 “history robes” created by Hazel Wilson. Through richly detailed scenes, the painted and appliquéd robes recount Haida histories that reflect the enduring knowledge of Haida peoples. 👤 Curated by ɬəkʷəlqinəm–Jordan Wilson 📆 Thursday May 14 🎫 Free museum admission | 6 pm onwards 🎉 Program | 7 pm 📩 No RSVP required #VisitMOA #MuseumOfAnthropology #ubc #museum #culture #Indigenous #textiles #Haida

Honk if you love MOA! 🪿💖 Our cutest (and most Canadian) visitors of the day arriving with the family in tow. 🥹 📷: Amanda Marshall #VisitMOA #MuseumOfAnthropology #ubc #CanadaGoose

May is #AsianHeritageMonth in Canada! 🌸 Did you know that approximately 40% of MOA’s collections originate from countries across Asia? These collections reflect a significant part of the breadth and diversity represented in the Museum. This month, we celebrate the richness and diversity of Asian cultures, and recognize the enduring contributions of Asian communities to Canada’s cultural landscape—past and present. Visit MOA’s Multiversity Galleries to experience the stories, artistry, and living cultures of Asian communities, reflected in the objects and belongings cared for here—each one carrying knowledge, memory, and connection across time and place. 🎥: Christian Zane Clado (@christianzanemedia ) #VisitMOA #museum #ubc #MuseumOfAnthropology

Did you know that spending time with art may help to lower your stress levels? Recent research from King’s College London found that just 20 minutes of viewing original artworks in a gallery was linked to a 22% reduction in stress. The study suggests that in-person encounters with art can have measurable effects on wellbeing, highlighting museums and galleries as spaces for reflection, restoration, and care. 🌿 Whether it’s a quiet moment in a gallery or time spent with an artwork that resonates, art can offer space to pause, breathe, and reconnect. We invite you to take a moment for yourself at MOA. 💖 📷: David Campion [Image description: A person looks at some Northwest coast prints in one of MOA's drawers in the Multiversity Galleries.] #VisitMOA #MuseumOfAnthropology #ubc #museum #culture #Indigenous

Step into a different way of seeing 👁️✨ Join MOA this Thursday, April 30 at 7 pm for Not-Your-Average Tours—a special series exploring Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision through unique and personal perspectives. On April 30, artist and musician Carol Sawyer (@carolsawyer.art ) offers a deeply connected tour, reflecting on the collection donated by her parents, Alan Reed Sawyer and Erika H. Sawyer—the foundation of this exhibition. Carol Sawyer (she/her) is a visual artist and singer working with photography, installation, video, and improvised music. Since the early 1990’s her visual art work has investigated the connections between photography and fiction, performance, memory, and history. Collection donations from her parents, Alan Reed Sawyer and Erika H Sawyer, form the basis of the exhibition. 📅 Thursday April 30 | 7 pm 🕰️ 45-minute tour 🎟️ Free with museum admission ‼️Capacity of 25 people per tour; first come, first served. Come experience the exhibition through story, memory, and lived connection. Slides 1-3: Visitors at the opening of Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision. 📷: Sara Race (@odearrr ) Slide 4: Carol Sawyer. 📷: Michael O’Connell. #MOAUBC #MuseumTour #VancouverEvents #AndeanArt #Cosmovision #ArtExperience

This #NationalVolunteerWeek, we’re honouring the 50th Anniversary of the MOA Volunteer Associates, founded in 1976. The contributions of these volunteers over the last half-century have been central to the life of the museum. From supporting exhibitions and research to welcoming visitors of all ages, the dedication of the Volunteer Associates has helped shape MOA into the museum it is today. In the years between 1977 and 2025, volunteers donated approximately 342,000 hours to MOA! This remarkable group of over 100 volunteers continues to play a vital role in MOA’s work and community today. Join us in celebrating the MOA Volunteer Associates and five decades of curiosity, care, and commitment.🙏 🔗 Link to full story in bio Slide 1: MOA Volunteer Associates in the Great Hall in 2014. Slide 2: Audrey Hawthorn and Kwakwaka’wakw knowledge holder and weaver, Abaya’a Martin, working together at the Museum, 1952. UBC Archives: UBC 1.1/9771-1. Photographer unrecorded. Slide 3: Volunteer Associates Kamshi Kanavathy and Gordon Watkins at a Diwali celebration in the Haida House. 📷: Issaku Inami. Slide 4: Volunteer Associate Marcie Powell works with a textile in MOA’s conservation lab. 📷: Kiel Torres. Slide 5: Volunteer Associate Elaine Klein delivering a digital school program. 📷: Amina Chergui. Slide 6: Volunteer Associate Issaku Inami gives a tour of Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers. Slide 7: Volunteer enrichment trip to Kitselas First Nation in Northwest B.C. Slide 8: Volunteer Associate Wanda Mae Anderson teaches the Pole Program to a group of students in the Great Hall Slide 9: Founding Members of the MOA Volunteer Associates. Photo taken in 1990. Front Row: Fran Panar, Mary Malkin & Audrey Hawthorn. Back Row: Michael Ames, Louise Lupini, Val Gamage, Vera Coombe, Donna Adams, Rosanna Robitaile, Frances Wellburn & Barbara Robinson. #VisitMOA #MuseumOfAnthropologyVancouver #ubc #museum #volunteers