Thinking Critically About Museums

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A Feedback and Professional Learning Workshop for BC Teachers

The Royal BC Museum is looking to the future and is committed to creating community connections, educational programs, and inclusive, thought-provoking experiences for all British Columbians and visitors from around the world. Part of this process involves re-imagining the existing galleries to be more responsive to all communities who use the galleries- including educators!

Art Clinic with Oil Painter Chrystal Phan *Cancelled*

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This event has been cancelled.

Struggling with achieving realistic figures in oils? Or wondering how colour choices can transform your painting? Bring your oil painting questions to this art clinic where artist Chrystal Phan will share practical tips to guide your practice. Participants are encouraged to send questions or photos of their painting issue by May 18th to be shared and discussed with the group. Chrystal will suggest potential solutions and resources.

RBCM Dialogue Session: Smithers, BC

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Please join us as we embark on a Phase 1 of this important community engagement journey across the province that will help shape the modernization of the Royal BC Museum.

Light refreshments will be served.

Please sign-up at your earliest convenience; space is limited. RSVP is required to attend dialogue sessions.

Natural History Tour

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Celebrate BC Museums Week. Join us for a short, guided tour and uncover some of the highlights and hidden gems of the Natural History Gallery.

Registration is not required, meet at the top of the escalator to participate. 

Sacred Journey Opening Blessing Ceremony

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We would be honoured if you joined us at the opening ceremony of the Sacred Journey Travelling Exhibit at the Victoria Inner Harbour.

Sacred Journey Travelling Exhibit is an immersive experience celebrating the power of Tribal Canoe Journeys at the Victoria Inner Harbour. It will be on display on the ground floor of the Royal BC Museum in Clifford Carl Hall beginning May 5, 2023.

Live at Lunch: Dinosaurs of BC

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Live at Lunch is a monthly series where you can hear directly from curators, archivists, staff and researchers at the Royal BC Museum as well as fascinating community members and guests. 

Dinosaurs of BC

Curator of paleontology, Dr. Victoria Arbour will share some of the exciting stories of discovery behind our new feature exhibition, Dinosaurs of BC. Hear about her fieldwork plans for this upcoming season and what she hopes to find next. 

Fieldtripper: Spring Wildflower Walk

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Spring has sprung and wildflowers are here! Join us for our first Fieldtripper since early 2020, a leisurely stroll or roll with Dr. Ken Marr, Curator of Botany and a CRD Regional Parks naturalist to see what’s out along the accessible Elsie King Trail at Francis/King Regional Park in Saanich. We'll talk all things plants and discover what makes this park so special in springtime.

Slow Art Day

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Discover the joy of looking at and loving art. Curator of art and images, Dr India Rael Young will select five unique works of art from the Royal BC Museum and BC Archives collection and museum educator Kim Gough will help guide you through a process of slow looking. Following the guided viewing, there will be a discussion and and an opportunity to share your reflections. 

Extreme Adaptations!

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British Columbia is Canada’s most mountainous province. How do plants survive and thrive in extreme alpine environments? Curator of botany Dr. Ken Marr works in remote, high altitude places documenting and learning about the plants that live there. Join Dr. Marr for an online visit to some of those places and learn about the wide diversity of plant species in BC alpine habitats and how those plants adapt to the extreme conditions they call home.

Targeted at grades 4 to 7, but everyone is welcome. 

 

Eating in a Tide Pool

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Ever wonder how a barnacle eats? Come join one of our museum educators at the tide pool and find out! Look at live barnacles and their neighbours in our tide pool and then climb inside our super-sized barnacle model for a fun simulation. 

Wonder Jar Watercolours

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Join artist Jeri Engen, and recreate the contents of some of the specimen jars from the museum into your own work of art. Materials and inspiration provided. Find Jeri near the seashore diorama on the second floor.