
Modernization
Learn more about government’s intention to modernize the museum to protect our historic holdings and provide better access to our collections.
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.
Museum Members and IMAX Passholders receive an ADDITIONAL 20% off of all purchases for this time period.
Tired of the same old thing? Why not come to the Royal BC Museum after work and try something new!
Bring your friends the last three Thursdays in November for a casual evening at the museum. Enjoy drink and food specials while you lounge or explore the galleries and take part in an activity.
Swing into the 1940s, learn how to glam up World War II style and try the jive. Feeling more conservative? Knit socks for soldiers or fill out your registration form.
Schedule:
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Clifford Carl Hall
Join the Naden Band of the Royal Canadian Navy for Lest We Forget; a musical tribute to all Canadians who served, and fell, in war. The concert will be held on the main level of the Royal BC Museum at 7:00 p.m. and is free of charge.
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 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 four-week workshop will be an opportunity to understand the way design shapes experience. By employing elements of Design Thinking, participants will help develop and co-create a kid space within our upcoming Royal BC Museum exhibition on families.
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 four-week workshop will be an opportunity to understand the way design shapes experience. By employing elements of Design Thinking, participants will help develop and co-create a kid space within our upcoming Royal BC Museum exhibition on families.
Join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour just for Kids’ Club members, then join us and other families for Wonder Sunday. This month explore the exhibit arts area to get inspiration to make your own mini diorama.
Join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour just for Kids’ Club members, then join us and other families for Wonder Sunday. This month explore the exhibit arts area to get inspiration to make your own mini diorama.
This month we think big … really big. Explore how mammoth teeth and tusks are both very heavy and very cool. Why did mammoths go extinct and should we try to bring them back from extinction if we could? These are some of the questions for the month.
Explore Mammoths! Giants of the Ice Age to learn more.
Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free 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.
Join Royal BC Museum biologists Darren Copley and Claudia Copley on a birding trip to Cowichan Bay as part of the WildWings Nature & Arts Festival, an annual month-long celebration of the return of the Trumpeter Swans to their overwintering grounds in the Cowichan Valley. We’ll have spotting scopes for up-close viewing. Bring binoculars if you have them.
Meet at the small parking area near the intersection of Cowichan Bay Road and Lochmanetz Road opposite the South Cowichan Lawn Tennis Club. Suitable for ages 10 and up.
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.
Free noon-hour talks on the first Wednesday of the month feature curators and researchers working at the Royal BC Museum.
Curator of Images Don Bourdon brings the perspective of BC photographers into focus with surprising and touching images from the First World War.
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 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 four-week workshop will be an opportunity to understand the way design shapes experience. By employing elements of Design Thinking, participants will help develop and co-create a kid space within our upcoming Royal BC Museum exhibition on families.