Photo: @thevrvoyage
We are changing our hours of operation soon!
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Starting the week of Spring Break (Wednesday, March 17, 2021) we will be open Wednesday - Sunday 10am-5pm!⁠

MOV continues to remain open to the public during the global pandemic and welcomes all visitors to come with their immediate household members for a safe and physically distanced experience.⁠ At this time, all visitors must pre-book a ticket online to be admitted into the museum.
New workshop dates announced!
Fish Skin Leather: Virtual Workshop with Janey Chang
Saturday, March 20 and March 27, 2021 (It’s a two-part workshop!)

Learn the process of transforming raw fish skins into a beautiful, translucent but 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, we will explore oil tanning which preserves the natural colour of fish skins. You will know everything you need to know to have your own Home Tannery!
Some action shots from last month's Fish Skin Tanning Virtual Workshop
MOVirtual: (Not-so) Distant Decades - Vancouver in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Join us for another installment of the monthly virtual tour series at MOV. This next event will give you the opportunity to tour Vancouver’s not so distant past, starting in the 1950’s and ending in the 1970’s. Led by the MOV Education team, Bérangère Descamps and Charlotte Chang, the tour will give an overview of the galleries 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 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.
Shadow Buffet @ MOV
Now on view!

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.
c̓əc̓əwitəl̕ | helping each other | ch’áwatway
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.
Foncie's Corner

Foncie's Corner, an evolving digital archive that started 8 years ago and currently hosts a collection of almost 4,000 photos by Foncie Pulice, is now managed by MOV!
 
Explore the current collection and add to it by submitting your photos. We encourage you to include personal stories from dramatic to mundane to joyous moments that when experienced together tell a larger story of life in British Columbia from the 1930s to the end of the 70s. There is cultural richness in Foncie’s photos and in the history they reveal in those flash moments on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver – over the course of almost half a century.
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.
International Women’s Day 2021

This year in honor of International Women’s Day, MOV partnered with the City of Vancouver to create a digital slideshow featuring a selection of the Vancouver’s historical and contemporary women’s rights advocates. The slideshow, which will evolve and grow each year, will be accessible to the public via the City of Vancouver’s website.

The Battered Women’s Support Service, pictured, is one such organization. Beginning their work in 1979 and currently led by ED Angela Marie MacDougall, the organization provides education, advocacy, and support services to assist all women and aims to work towards the elimination of violence. BWSS works from a feminist perspective that promotes equality for all women.

10th Anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake: Online Curator Tour of A Future for Memory
Thursday, March 11, 2021

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which hit Japan on March 11, 2011, join MOA Curator Fuyubi Nakamura for an online tour of A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake to reflect on the event and learn from the recovery process. Learn More.
VanDusen Botanical Garden presents...
Spring Equinox Gathering
Sunday, March 21, 2021

If you ever wondered what VanDusen’s Medicine Wheel Ceremony is about but never made it to an in-person celebration, this is your opportunity to participate in an online ceremony through Zoom! Learn More.
We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.