Lessons from Kelp Forests, Ancient Clam Gardens and Pacific Herring 

Public Science Talk at the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution annual meeting With Anne Salomon

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.

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.

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.

Spring is a great time to gather on a hilltop: you can take in the view, breathe some fresh air and see the wildflowers in bloom. Many insects also gather on hilltops, but not for the flora or the scenery. They gather on hills to find mates. Join Entomology Curator Joel Gibson, as he leads a walk around the summit of Pkols (Mount Douglas). We will observe some of the fascinating flying creatures that gather there.

Meet at the summit parking lot of Pkols (Mount Douglas), Saanich Parks.

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 permanent galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.

Find out what's happening at the museum and archives in these monthly talks featuring curators, staff and researchers. 

Finding Family in the BC Archives
Genevieve Weber, Archivist

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. 

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.

A Canadian icon and hero, Terry Fox is an inspiration to all. Wonder Sunday will branch out of the exhibit to continue his legacy and promote hope. Join in with discussions on his life, the Marathon of Hope, and engage in activities relating to Terry Fox’s life.

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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.

Stars have been forming since the Big Bang, and carry with them the fossil record of the conditions of the Galaxy at their birth. Reading this fossil record using the largest telescopes has allowed us to reconstruct the history of the Galaxy, as well as explore the origins of the chemical elements.

Total Solar Eclipses are a natural phenomenon that occur when the moon passes between the Sun and the Earth casting a narrow shadow that rushes across parts of the planet plunging inhabitants along its path into a deep twilight. Totality reveals the sun’s gossamer corona, planets rarely seen in daytime and a host of effects including animal behaviour, changes in temperature and wind. Colour, clouds, weather and behaviours are all affected for periods of time ranging from a few seconds to seven minutes.

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 astronomer and author Jon Willis for a whistle-stop tour of the current state of the search for life beyond Earth.  Where should we be looking, what techniques should we use and what might we expect to find? Take a ride around the planets and moons of our own solar system before boldly striking out for the exoplanets that lie beyond.