MOV is pleased to announce a new collaboration that will support local emerging artists by hosting a Pop Up shop location within MOV’s existing Gift Shop space. The collaborating partner, The Art Shop (TAS), is a local collective that supports local emerging artists through selling art that is accessible, relatable, and attainable.

With the Lattimer Gallery and Gifts formally leaving the space in mid-June 2021, the pop up will run for a 1-month period, starting July 2021. MOV hopes to host further pop ups after this period by partnering with other local artist collectives and rotate them within the space on a bi-monthly basis.

Next week is officially BC Museums Week! Join Museum of Vancouver along with hundreds of other cultural institutions across British Columbia and explore how to take action in your community to create a brighter, more just future for all. This year’s theme is #MuseumACTION and each day we’ll explore a new theme. Follow along on our Facebook and Instagram page!

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.

Museum of Vancouver and Chinese Canadian Museum presents...

That Which Sustains Us will tell the story of Vancouver’s forests and natural environments through a unique and non-linear narrative. The curatorial collective behind the project included Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh Nation cultural experts, environmental historians, and forestry researchers, facilitated by Sharon Fortney, MOV’s Curator of Indigenous Collections and Engagement.

Model: @___elliehllin___

Photo: @nsj.foto

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!

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 this edition of From the Collection, Jasmine Wilson, Indigenous Programs and Community Engagement Coordinator at the Museum of Vancouver, explains how one particular collection connects her to her own personal history. Keep Reading.

Talking the Walk: Reflections on 360 Riot Walk is a series of free online panel discussions using 360 Riot Walk as an entry point to explore the history of anti-Asian violence and white supremacy in Vancouver. Participants are brought into the social and political environment of the time where racialized communities were targeted through legislated as well as physical acts of exclusion and violence. Learn More.

May is Asian Heritage Month, and VIFF is marking the occasion with a bundle of movies from Asian-Canadian filmmakers, headed up by one of the last movies to play at the VIFF Centre before they shut down last March. Learn More.

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