Upcoming Public Closure Notice: Thursday, January 14, 2021

Please note that we will be closed to the public next week on Thursday, January 14, 2021 for filming. Doors will reopen again on Friday, January 15th and we welcome you to come with your immediate household members for a safe and physically distanced experience! Purchase tickets here.

Did you know? 100% of the revenue from our rentals program goes directly towards maintaining and continuing the museum's conservation, education, and public programs. Connect with a member of our rentals team and learn more about filming at MOV here.
WEBINAR - Gifts from the Salmon: Reviving an Ancestral Skill
Saturday, January 9, 2021

The making of salmon skin leather is an almost forgotten ancient skill that many coastal and river communities in the Northern Hemisphere once practiced and few still do. Join Janey Chang, a Fish Skin Leather Revivalist and Ancestral Skills Artist, as she guides you through a virtual exploration of this old tradition, which connects her to her Chinese ancestral lineage and to the Coast Salish Lands that she calls home. She will share some of the uses of fish leather from around the world and will also demonstrate some of the steps of the process of fish skin leather tanning.
MOVirtual: Livestream Exhibition Tour Series – A Seat at the Table
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Join us for the launch of a new monthly virtual tour series at MOV. This first event will give you the opportunity to tour our newest feature exhibition, A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and BC, from the comfort of your home. Led by the MOV Education team, Bérangère Descamps and Charlotte Chang, the tour will give an overview of the new exhibition and follow with a brief Q&A period.
A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia
Now on view!

The Museum of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia proudly present a new feature exhibition, A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia. This exhibition explores historical and contemporary stories of Chinese Canadians in BC and their struggles for belonging. It looks to food and restaurant culture as an entry point to feature stories that reveal the great diversity of immigrant experience and of the communities immigrants develop.
Sister exhibition at the Chinese Canadian Museum of BC on view at the Hon Hsing Building in Vancouver Chinatown, 27 E Pender Street! Learn More.
Acts of Resistance
CLOSING SOON - On view until Sunday, January 31, 2021

Engage with the stories of the Indigenous artists behind the 7 Greenpeace protest banners from the 2018 Aerial Blockade protesting the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project at Acts of Resistance.⁠ Featured artists include: Brandon Gabriel, Will George, Ronnie Dean Harris, Ocean Hyland, Jackie Fawn Mendez, Marissa Nahanee, and Ed Archie Noisecat.
c̓əc̓əwitəl̕ | helping each other | ch’áwatway
EXTENDED - On view until Tuesday, June 15, 2021

This micro-exhibition in the Museum of Vancouver studio called c̓əc̓əwitəl̕ | helping each other | ch’áwatway, provides an opportunity for the 2019 YVR Art Foundation scholarship recipients to exhibit their final works. This exhibition explores themes of resilience, memory and identity, through reconnection with ancestral knowledge and lands. 

The title, written in both hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh snichim, shows our respect for the teachings of our host communities – the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations while acknowledging that this exhibition is taking place within their shared traditional territories.
Virtual School Programs: Cedar and Sealskin
Grades 2-4

We offer a series of programs which include fun and interactive demonstrations with guided conversations, designed to spark curiosity and encourage critical thinking! Gain a deeper understanding of First Nations’ traditional culture through Object-Based Learning. Examine belongings from the Pacific Northwest Coast and learn how First Nations Peoples met the basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter.
This vaccination card is from the SS Lake Champlain, an immigration ship that sailed from Liverpool to Quebec starting in 1900. Passengers took this trip to immigrate to Canada. From Quebec, many immigrants travelled west to Vancouver which is how this card ended up at MOV. Vaccination cards were a method of proof that one was protected from diseases present on board ships when immigrating to Canada in the early 20th century. Passengers would present this card to avoid being held in detention or quarantine upon arrival.

With a vaccine plan for COVID-19 on the horizon, it is interesting to see how our country has dealt with disease and travel in the not so distant past. Learn more about this vaccination card and to discover other objects in the Collection here.
Digitally restored and available for purchase
Date of the original: 1986
Shop the MOV Collection!

Museum of Vancouver has partnered with Point Two Designs to create an online shop stocked with a collection of art prints that represent Vancouver's history! Each print has been digitally restored and beautifully re-colorized to bring these historical artefacts back to their original glory.

How many of you remember Expo Ernie? Well if you do, you will know that this "Expo-86-Spaceman" art print is a souvenir of Vancouver's history. The original artwork is part of the  Museum of Vancouver ’s archives and has been carefully preserved.
We’ve meticulously digitally remastered this artifact to bring it back to life for your home or office decor.
SFU Public Square presents...
Not Back to Normal: Housing Post-Pandemic
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Normal was not good enough before the pandemic — especially when talking about housing affordability, access and sustainability. Our Metro Vancouver Regional Growth Strategy is currently under review, toward a revised Metro 2050 plan. How should we think about key aspects of this and other local and regional plans, in light of the pandemic? For example, strategy 4.2 of our regional plan seeks to “develop healthy and complete communities with access to a range of services and amenities.” For those struggling, now as before the pandemic, to find housing that is suitable for their household, affordable and in good repair, and located in a neighbourhood where they can access what they need, changes are needed in the direction we are heading, away from what was sadly considered “normal” pre-pandemic. Learn More.
Vancouver Historical Society presents...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Founded in 1908 and a landmark on Granville Street for most of its 78 years, James Inglis Reid Ltd. was a legendary retailer of fine meats and traditional Scottish fare, produced on site using artisanal techniques passed down for decades. Its story illuminates the social history of the city through two world wars, the Great Depression, shifts in consumer habits, and the changing fortunes of the downtown Granville Street area. Anne Wyness has written a richly illustrated history of this unique family business that is also a story of Vancouver itself. Learn More.
We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.