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.

Curator of Archaeology Grant Keddie

New discoveries and new research are beginning to tell a different story about the nature of the Ice Age and its inhabitants in British Columbia. Our mammoth fossils and those of other large mammals have only begun to reveal their secrets.

Explore Mammoths! Giants of the Ice Age to learn more. 

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.

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.

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.

Mingle with museum staff and community members stationed around the museum galleries. Both natural and human history science will be explored.

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 the nationwide movement to celebrate science. Events at the Royal BC Museum include:

Surprising Science

Mingle with museum staff and community members stationed around the museum galleries. Both natural and human history science will be explored.

September 20, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Included with admission or membership.

Learn more.

Presented by the Friends of the BC Archives 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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