Family Day at MOV!
Monday, February 15, 2021

Come and visit Museum of Vancouver with your immediate household members this upcoming family day for a safe and physically distanced experience! There are a limited amount of time slots available for the day so secure your tickets early:

Adults (12+) - $10
Children (6 to 11) and Seniors (65+) - $5
Children (5 and under) – Free
Individuals self-identifying as Indigenous - Free

At this time, all visitors must pre-book a ticket online to be admitted into the museum.
#OurLNY2021

Lunar New Year is one of the most important holidays for many Asian cultures. The pandemic has made it challenging to have our usual family gatherings, so we have partnered with UBC's INSTRCC and the CCM to launch a virtual Lunar New Year celebration and social media campaign. The hope is to celebrate LNY virtually with a socially-distanced twist!
Lunar New Year Instagram Giveaway!
Celebrate Lunar New Year with the Chinese Canadian Museum!
Fish Skin Tanning: Virtual Workshop with Janey Chang
February 20 and February 27, 2021 (It’s a two-part workshop!)

Learn the process of transforming raw fish skins into a beautiful, durable textile that can be used to make clothing, pouches, wallets, footwear, art and anything you would use leather for. In this two part class, explore tea tanning using things you will find around your home. Participants will learn everything they need to know to have their own Home Tannery!
MOVirtual: Livestream Exhibition Tour Series – Haida Now
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Join us for another installment of the monthly virtual tour series at MOV. This next event will give you the opportunity to tour MOV’s feature exhibition, Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition, from the comfort of your home. Led by Haida guest interpreter, Lia Hart, the tour will give an overview of the exhibition and follow with a brief Q&A period.
Photo: @wenderpp⁠
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.
Opening Soon...
Shadow Buffet @ MOV
Opening February 12, 2021 in Gallery 11

Bring stories to life with light this Lunar New Year! ⁠
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Shadow Buffet, an extension of A Seat at the Table and presented in partnership with Mere Phantoms opens February 12, 2021. This immersive and interactive exhibition invites guests to connect to moments and places associated with the experience of sharing a meal and eating together. Maker stations allow visitors to create their own cut-outs and animate the installations by adding a personal twist and bringing food to the table.⁠ Learn More.
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.
c̓əc̓əwitəl̕ | helping each other | ch’áwatway
EXTENDED - On view until Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Marlo Wylie Brillon is a Skidegate Haida and Northern Cree artist from Courtenay, BC. Her piece “Kalga Jaad and Xuuya” was inspired by her reading from Swanton’s Ethnography of the Haida, and the short tale of Kalga Jaad soothing the fussy Raven by breastfeeding him to keep him quiet and calm. The story also conjured imagery presenting nude female form, as was natural and without shame in Indigenous cultures.
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Brillon's piece, along with the works of all other 2019 YVR Art Foundation scholarship recipients, are currently on display in the MOV studio as part of a new micro-exhibition - c̓əc̓əwitəl̕ helping each other ch’áwatway.⁠
Neon Vancouver l Ugly Vancouver
On view until Spring 2022

Enjoy the big city lights of Vancouver and catch a glimpse of the city from the 1950s through to the 1970s with this extraordinary collection of neon signs. The remarkable signs, some lit for the first time since they were rescued from the junk yard, are accompanied by the tale of how the city went through a war of aesthetics that resulted in a transition of the very way Vancouver imagines itself. 
Coming Soon...
Haida Now Virtual Tour

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 Add-on and can be added separately to any education package for a rental fee of $10.
BC Black History Awareness Society - Black History Month Events

For 25 years BC Black History Awareness Society has hosted a Black History Month program; and this year they have an online program with five events to recognize and celebrate the achievements and contributions of historical and contemporary people of African descent. All the events can be found online here.
Check out this video from Heritage Week last year!
Heritage Week 2021
February 15-21, 2021

Heritage Week offers a chance to explore heritage across BC and Canada. In 2021, Vancouver Heritage Foundation will be exploring the theme “Where do you find heritage?” The week will include our annual Places That Matter Community Celebration as well as other opportunities to learn and share about Vancouver’s history, diverse cultural heritage and historic places. All events will be presented virtually to enable safe participation at this time. Learn More.
We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.