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.

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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.

Learn more

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.

Friends of the BC Archives Lecture

Presented by Glen A. Mofford

Glen will give an illustrated talk based on his new book on the research behind his book and its contents, including some familiar buildings and landmarks. He will describe what took place in them during the days of 5-cent beers, smoky saloons and swinging doors, and touch on Prohibition in BC, specifically in Victoria. Glen will also discuss his current research project on the beer parlours of Greater Victoria.

This month will celebrate the animals of Halloween. Bats, owls and spiders will creep and crawl their way through the museum. Don’t miss our annual Wonder Sunday Halloween on October 30.

This Halloween we are going Hollywood for our annual adult only after hour’s party. Explore the galleries, themed to different horror films, get down to live music and take part in interactives. Featuring a cash bar and nibbles for sale from Truffles Catering.

Dressed to impress?

If you have an outstanding costume you could win big! Join our Costume Contest on the 3^rd floor at 11:15 pm.

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 vertebrate collection from the small to the mighty.

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.

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.

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 from whales to bats. Tours are limited to 10 people. Sign up begins 1 hour prior to the tour start time.

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 exhibit arts department and reveal how they create our fabulous museum experiences.Tours are limited to 10 people. Sign up begins 1 hour prior to the tour start time.

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.

Visit the Royal BC Museum as we celebrate our 130th anniversary on October 25, 2016. The first 130 paid admissions will receive a free chocolate from Rogers’ Chocolates.

On this special occasion we are also unlocking our vault and placing five original Emily Carr paintings on public display in Clifford Carl Hall.

Then, dive deeper and join one of our Behind the Scenes Tours to see for yourself where we keep those jars, boxes and bins, and experience the working environment of our talented researchers and staff.

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.

Learn more

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.

Learn more

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.

This month will celebrate the animals of Halloween. Bats, owls and spiders will creep and crawl their way through the museum. Don’t miss our annual Wonder Sunday Halloween on October 30.