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

This event is part of the Stories at Helmcken House series, where experienced tellers delight audiences of all ages with folktales, myths, legends and personal stories from around the world.

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This event is part of the Stories at Helmcken House series, where experienced tellers delight audiences of all ages with folktales, myths, legends and personal stories from around the world.

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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.

This panel discussion is the first event of this year’s series. The panel will discuss the relationship between art and business in Victoria, and the outcomes of working to find a balance between the two.

Moderator: Janet MacDonald, Royal BC Museum

Panelists

Whether it's your biological family or family of choice, things aren't always easy or straightforward. This participatory discussion series tackles perspectives and definitions, upending assumptions to help us better understand ourselves and our family roles. An intriguing mix of facilitators will get the conversation started, but where it goes from there is up to you. 

See for yourself where we keep British Columbia's documentary heritage, and experience the working environment of our talented researchers and archivists. This tour will focus on the collections of the BC Archives and 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 at the Information Desk.

See for yourself where we usually keep those jars, boxes and bins, and experience the working environment of our talented researchers and staff. Tours are limited to 10 people. Sign up begins one hour prior to the tour start time.

This tour will focus on our Entomology collection and the wonderful world of insects.

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.

Seniors, this one-hour facilitated session is for you. Drop in , discuss, share and learn using objects from the Royal BC Museum's education collection. This program can also be booked for groups by contacting our booking office. 

Mingle with museum staff and community members stationed around the galleries. We will explore the science of both natural history and human history.

This event is part of our Science Odyssey programming.

Make a personal connection with a museum object and gain insight into a life question. A guide trained in the creative Museum Sage experience will help you use non-visual senses to find your piece. 

Tours begin at 3:00 pm and last approximately 30 minutes. 

How does it work?

Join our friendly and informative guides near the top of the escalators on the third floor 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 near the top of the escalators on the third floor 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 Ocean Networks Canada to learn about the ocean food web through exciting hands-on activities. Discover how the smallest plants and animals in the ocean are connected to the largest, and everything in between! Learn about phytoplankton and zooplankton: how do these unique organisms travel through the water column and what do they look like? Understand how we can track algal blooms and how they can affect human health. Finally, find out how plankton even support humans through aquaculture from oyster farms to Indigenous clam gardens.  

Is DNA the only thing that makes up families? Become a geneticist and learn about our genetic codes and hereditary traits. Share your family stories and learn what makes people related to one another.

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

The documentary film, Every Living Thing: Experiencing a Bioblitz, will take you on an amazing journey of what it's like to spend four weeks over two summers exploring all aspects of nature – fish, insects, plants, fungi, reptiles, amphibians and mammals - that live in the Grand Lake Protected Natural Area in New Brunswick, Canada. In this the UN Decade of Biodiversity (2011-2020), the film was produced in collaboration with the New Brunswick Museum's BiotaNB program.

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

Seniors, this one-hour facilitated session is for you. Drop in , discuss, share and learn using objects from the Royal BC Museum's education collection. This program can also be booked for groups by contacting our booking office.