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Museum of Vancouver continues to remain open to the public Wednesday - Sunday 10am - 5pm. We welcome all visitors to come with their immediate household members for a safe and physically distanced experience.

Adults (12+) - $10

Children (6 to 11) and Seniors (65+) - $5

Children (5 and under) – Free

Individuals self-identifying as Indigenous - Free

Join Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé, an Upper Tanana visual artist, in a Virtual Beading Workshop this spring! Learn to bead a simple but unique floral pattern in an engaging online workshop that is ideal for beginners to learn basic beading techniques. Participants will not only gain the skills necessary to make a Melton keychain using seed beads, but they will also learn how to accent the work with traditional materials like freshwater pearl or shell button. Teresa has been exhibited across Canada and currently has work featured in c̓əc̓əwitəl̕ | helping each other | ch’áwatway at MOV.

Owl Drugs/Rexall Drugs located ay 1524 West 41st Avenue in Vancouver. Photo courtesy of John Atkin

Join us for another installment of the monthly virtual tour series at MOV. This next event will give you the opportunity to tour one of MOV’s most popular exhibitions, Neon Vancouver Ugly Vancouver. Led by local historian, John Aktin, the tour will give an overview of the exhibition, offer some historical insight into Vancouver’s bright neon past, and follow with a brief Q&A period.

Owl Drugs neon sign on display at Museum of Vancouver. (H996.22.35a-b)

Join us on International Museums Day for another monthly virtual tour series at MOV. This next event will give you the opportunity to tour MOV’s latest feature exhibition, A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia, during Asian Heritage Month in Vancouver. Led by local Chinese Canadian Artist, Paul Wong, the tour will give guests personal insight into several of his art works created or adapted for this exhibition and an opportunity to highlight a few of his favourite historical objects and stories. This lively tour will offer new access points to engage with the exhibition’s themes and narratives. A brief Q&A period will follow.

Photo: @christianzanephotography

The Museum of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia proudly present 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.

Have you already been to see A Seat at the Table at MOV? Take this survey and tell us about your experience for a chance to win free admission to MOV!

Shadow Buffet, an extension of A Seat at the Table and presented in partnership with Mere Phantoms is now on view!

Using food and restaurant culture as entry point, the central installation takes the form of a "shadow buffet". A series of round, plate-shaped paper food suspended from the ceiling just above eye level, hovering over a long white table. Each piece is top-lit so that its shadow – a collection of food items -- is cast onto the tabletop below. These paper cut-outs not only reference food, they connect to moments and places associated with the experience of eating.

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.

In 2020, the Museum of Vancouver partnered with Dr. Kate Hennessy at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology and students in the class Moving Images (IAT 344) to develop material for a new upcoming studio exhibition that documents life during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic.

#IsolatingTogetherMOV is a project that attempts to learn how the public have adapted to the limitations and opportunities of quarantine during this time. So far we have collected and documented a wide range of stories, testimonies, performances, art and confessions of this new reality. Join us as we launch more than 30 new videos by SIAT students as a part of this project!

Not able to make the live premier today? Not to worry.

You can simply view all the videos on the playlist here

Join co-curator, Kwiaahwah Jones, on a unique virtual tour of MOV’s Haida Now exhibition as she couples artistic insight with her own personal connections to the entire exhibition and the stories it conveys. The full 30 minute film is included within the Road to Reconciliation School Program Add-on and can be added separately to any package for a rental fee of $10.

Listen to this week's full The Discovery Group Podcast episode with MOV CEO Mauro Vescera and Douglas Nelson. Listen Here.

A moose hunted in Newfoundland more than a decade ago. A moose skull living on the land in Nova Scotia. A porcupine quill basket in storage in a Vancouver museum. A 19th-century photograph at a Paris museum. An artist in Nova Scotia. A pandemic. More photographs – transferred via the internet. And the result: a large-scale photograph of an intricately painted moose skull resting on Mi’kmaq land in Eastern Canada, installed on the other side of Canada, on the exterior of a substation that powers half of downtown Vancouver. Keep Reading.

The BC Museums Association (BCMA) is seeking a BC-based Indigenous artist to create a new or use an existing work that evokes the spirit of repatriation and acts as a symbol of institutional participation in a nationwide Call to Action that will be released this Spring.

Join Vancouver Heritage Foundation and The Giant Hand and The Birth of Gianthropology artist Henri Robideau for a virtual crash-course on the city’s larger-than-life signage. We will discuss Henri’s large-scale photo-based artwork for The WALL public art installation and discover how Vancouver became the birthplace of Gianthropology. Learn More.

Explore the world of Chinese Canadian restaurants and the immigrants who run them. To celebrate World Book Day, join Ann Hui in a conversation on her national bestselling book, Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants. Learn More.

We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.