Snapshot Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special thirty-minute tour in the museum’s Gold Rush gallery. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.

Feature Length Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special one-hour tour in the museum’s natural history galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.

This drop-in creative youth space, presented in conjunction with Rethinking Thinking and the Summit at the Bay, is for dreaming, designing, debating and discovering. What kinds of spaces do you find best to learn, hang out or create in? How can you prototype your ideas in order to best put them into practice?

Feature Length Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special one-hour tour in the museum’s natural history galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Prohibition in British Columbia: How the Prohibitionists Won the Battle but Lost the War

Prohibition came into effect in BC on October 1, 1917, making BC the last Canadian province to enact prohibition and the first to end it. The story of how its supporters prevailed and how it ultimately failed is complex, fascinating and at times humourous, involving fraud, duplicity and corruption. Archivist Frederike Verspoor will present it through the records of the BC Archives. 

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Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

C3 is an epic 150-day sailing journey from Toronto to Victoria via the Northwest Passage. Throughout October, we’ll explore some of their scientific findings and incorporate their environmental research with hands-on learning. 

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Our next Night at the Museum is a big old family sleepover, inspired by the exhibition Family: Bonds and Belonging. Come spend the night with us as we camp, tell stories, watch home movies, play board games and even have a pillow fight or two (he started it!). This fun and playful event will make for your most memorable museum visit ever.

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Home Learners Workshop Series

This four-week workshop will explore one of the key elements of identity: language. What is your mother tongue, and what does that mean? How is language developed? How does it shape the way you see the world? What are the languages heard and spoken inBritish Columbia?

Drawing on content from the Our Living Languages exhibition and co-facilitated by a novice Hul’q’umi’num’ speaker, we will explore these questions and more.

As our Family: Bonds and Belonging exhibition continues, we’ll discover the various types of families, such as those formed by blood and those formed by choice. Come hang out in the museum’s pillow fort, create your very own shadow puppet story and learn a thing or two about genetics!

Snapshot Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special thirty-minute tour in the museum’s Gold Rush gallery. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.

Snapshot Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special thirty-minute tour in the museum’s Gold Rush gallery. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.

See for yourself where we usually keep those jars, boxes and bins and experience the working environment of our talented researchers and staff. This tour will focus on our vertebrate collection and how these collections help us to learn about our province.Tours are limited to 10 people. Sign up begins 1 hour prior to the tour start time.

Feature Length Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special one-hour tour in the museum’s natural history galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.