Seasons Greetings and Happy Holidays from all of us at Museum of Vancouver! We wish you the best this season and look forward to a New Year coming soon.⁠

Museum of Vancouver continues to remain open to the public and we welcome you to come with your immediate household members for a safe and physically distanced experience! Click here to learn more about our current COVID safety protocols.
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Christmas Eve (Thurs, Dec 24): CLOSED⁠
Christmas Day (Fri, Dec 25): CLOSED⁠
Boxing Day (Sat, Dec 26): OPEN 10am - 4pm⁠
*Extra Day* (Wed, Dec 30): OPEN 10am - 4pm⁠
New Years Eve (Thurs, Dec 31): OPEN 10am - 4pm⁠
New Years Day (Fri, Jan 1): CLOSED⁠
At this time, all visitors must pre-book a ticket online to be admitted into the museum. Tickets are only available online with a 10 person limit for each 15 minute timeslot.
Skate like a girl by Darya Tyugay - #IsolatingTogetherMOV

This short film is part of a collection of projects done by the students of Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology in the class Moving Images (IAT 344) to develop their video and documentary skills by creating high quality media for inclusion in a future MOV exhibition.

The theme #IsolatingTogetherMOV, captured stories that we, as a collective, will be able to tell for a future exhibition about the COVID-19 pandemic experience at the Museum of Vancouver.

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.
MOV Virtual Exhibition Tours - Coming Soon!

Museum of Vancouver is launching virtual exhibition tours in 2021! Tell us your opinion and help us shape how they look by taking this poll.
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.
c̓əc̓əwitəl̕ | helping each other | ch’áwatway
EXTENDED - On view until 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.
Photo: Tsleil-Waututh artist and activist Ts’simtelot, Ocean Hyland
Bridge photo courtesy of Greenpeace Canada
Acts of Resistance
On view until January 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.
Temíxw Stories from the Land

Listen to the Sxwexwiỳáḿ | Nexwsyetsem (Mythology | History) of this coastal region and learn about the traditional Squamish stories of the land with Chief Ian Campbell. Listen and learn from the stories of in7inyax̱a7en iy tx̱ayusem (Thunderbird and Lightning), sínulhkay (The double headed Serpent), lhilhxi7elsh (Siwash Rock), and xaays iy schayilhen (The Transformers and the first salmon), and more!

The triptych painting “Temíxw,” currently on display at Museum of Vancouver, contains a diversity of stories, important places, and traditional knowledge taught to Chief Ian Campbell by his Squamish and Musqueam family members, and other elders from his community.
Gitxsan and Kwakwaka'wakw Poles
Currently on view at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Two Gitxsan Poles and one Kwakwaka'wakw Pole from the Museum of Vancouver Collection are currently on loan to the Vancouver Convention Centre. These poles can be viewed on the convention level of the east building in the main atrium area.

The Sisaxolas Pole was carved by Kwaguʼł / Kwikwasutinux artist, Charlie James (Yakuglas) for Chief Sisaxolas, Alex Morgan, Head Chief of the Gwawaʼenux̱w people at Hegam’s, also known as Drury Inlet or Hopetown. Gitxsan artist, Wah Yooksgm Hayda (Art Sterritt), carved both of the Gitxsan totem poles in 1972 at the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art at Ksan village, in Hazelton British Columbia. Both, made of red cedar, were the first the master carver created in his life. He has now made nearly 40.
‘A Seat at the Table’ Shares the Intimate Histories of BC’s Chinese Immigrants

One of the (few) positives to come out of 2020, is that it’s allowed us the opportunity to pause. Being sheltered in place en masse, we have more mental real estate to reflect on things and consider what makes up our identity. After visiting The Museum of Vancouver’s latest exhibition, A Seat at the Table, I was struck by how long it stayed with me after returning home. Keep Reading.
From the Collection // The Museum of Vancouver’s Mexican Molinillo and Ceramic Mug

For this edition of From The Collection, Fiona Hernandez, Conservator at the Museum of Vancouver, shares an artefact that resonates with her on an especially personal level, even more so in light of the global circumstances altering the way we celebrate the holidays this year. Keep Reading.
Lattimer Gallery & Gifts at MOV - HOLIDAY SALE!

At Lattimer Gallery & Gifts at MOV you will find a variety of high quality Northwest Coast art and giftware, as well as Vancouver-themed gifts from popular brands and local companies. Get some holiday shopping done today!

15% off the entire store! In store and online.
Virtual Food Drive

Museum of Vancouver is hosting a Virtual Food Drive in support of the Greater Vancouver Food Bank! We are super excited about the work the Food Bank is doing; providing access to healthy fresh food for its members. Contribute your monetary donation today!
2021 Call for Applications – Emerging and Mid-Career Artist Scholarship Program

YVR Art Foundation is pleased to announce a Call for Applications to BC and Yukon Indigenous artists for the 2021 Emerging Artist Scholarship Program and the Mid-Career Artist Scholarship Program. Application Deadline: Thursday, January 28, 2021, at 4pm. Learn more.
Seara #Powershare

Museum of Vancouver is proud to be a Dependable Fund Partner of Seara Fund - Sector Equity for Anti-Racism in the Arts!

In the wake of COVID-19, the Sector Equity for Anti-Racism in the Arts (SEARA) aims to raise $500K – $1M for BC-based BIPOC Artists facing financial hardship. Donate now to support equity in the arts! Learn more.
We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.