After Hours
Join us for a new all-ages series designed to welcome you to the museum, after hours.

Orcas!
This After Hours event dives deep into the world of orcas. Join us as we explore the Orcas: Our Shared Future exhibit in new and exciting ways. Don't miss this last chance to hang with the pod before Orcas swim away on March 31st. 

What you can expect:

For this noon hour program, join us in the Natural History gallery for some family fun. Throughout the week we will be exploring animals among us, through hands-on investigating of museum specimens.

For this particular day, we fly high up into the skies of BC to find out more about the Animals of the Air

This drop-in event is open to all.

For this noon hour program, join us in the Natural History gallery for some family fun. Throughout the week we will be exploring animals among us, through hands-on investigating of museum specimens.

For this particular day, we slither/ crawl/ hop/ pounce throughout the landscapes of BC to find out more about the Animals of the Land.  

This drop-in event is open to all.

For this noon hour program, join us in the Natural History gallery for some family fun. Throughout the week we will be exploring animals among us, through hands-on investigating of museum specimens.

For this particular day, we dive deep into the waters of BC to find out more about the Animals of the Sea.  

This drop-in event is open to all.

Making Fish Fossils

University of Victoria undergraduate student Andrea Valcourt will share her research on 53 million year old fossil fish in the museum’s palaeontology collection, and show you how to make your own fish ‘fossil’ at home.

You will need:

• Play-doh, clay, or homemade salt dough
• Toothpicks, pencils, or forks (for making impressions on the dough)

RBCM @ Home (Kids) is hosted by Chris O'Connor. 

Click on the Zoom link to join:

For this noon hour program, join us in the Natural History gallery for some family fun. Throughout the week we will be exploring animals among us, through hands-on investigating of museum specimens.

For this particular day, we fly high up into the skies of BC to find out more about the Animals of the Air

This drop-in event is open to all.

For this noon hour program, join us in the Natural History gallery for some family fun. Throughout the week we will be exploring animals among us, through hands-on investigating of museum specimens.

For this particular day, we slither/ crawl/ hop/ pounce throughout the landscapes of BC to find out more about the Animals of the Land.  

This drop-in event is open to all.

For this noon hour program, join us in the Natural History gallery for some family fun. Throughout the week we will be exploring animals among us, through hands-on investigating of museum specimens.

For this particular day, we dive deep into the waters of BC to find out more about the Animals of the Sea.  

This drop-in event is open to all.

Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) was born Black and free in Pennsylvania and distinguished himself as a landscape artist, which was an unusual medium for African American artists. This talk will explore a cross-section of Brown’s work in key locations such as the Bay Area, Nevada territory, British Columbia, the national parks of Yosemite and Yellowstone, and finally in Minnesota. His path marked the expansion of two empires—Canada and the United States—and tested the ideological meanings of “frontier” as a space created solely by the pioneering efforts of White men.

Join us on Tuesday afternoons throughout February as we take you on a guided tour of the Royal BC Museum's feature exhibition, Orcas: Our Shared Future, from the comfort and safety of your own home via Facebook Live.

Orca enthusiast, writer, podcaster and filmmaker Mark Leiren-Young will explore a different area of the exhibition in each of the four 20-minute sessions.

In the fourth and final installment, we will take a look at what we can do to protect the future of both orcas and the oceans.

Dolphins dives below the water’s surface for a romp with inquisitive Atlantic spotted dolphins, acrobatic dusky dolphins and the familiar bottlenose dolphins. Follow marine biologists as they research the communication of wild dolphins with innovative scientific methods. From rarely seen fish-herding behavior to a close-up look at complex communication activities, Dolphins offers a fascinating new perspective on the lives of dolphins and their remarkable intelligence.

Cook along with Daniela Pinto, intercultural community building practitioner, performer and storyteller as she shares her Brazilian culture and we learn to make a treat that kids and anyone with a sweet tooth will love – brigadeiro. These fudgy balls are decorated with sprinkles and are a staple at Brazilian festivities.

To bake along, get the ingredients listed below and start step one before joining online. Or watch first and make later. (Makes 20-25 Brigadeiros):

Ingredients: 

Beside the museum gallery building is a tower filled with objects, specimens, and belongings. It is said that there are seven million things within the Royal BC Museum collection- so let's go see what is there.

Ok...truth be told, we won't look at all seven million objects, but we will see a lot of different things that are behind the scenes in the collection areas. From the basement and beyond, come explore with us as we follow our curiosity and uncover some extraordinary objects that help us better understand who we are and where we live. 

How much of a museum nerd are you? Play our family friendly trivia game for fun and bragging rights! Play as a tem, or compete against one another for added level of challenge. 

Join the webinar to play the trivia game live!
https://zoom.us/j/93410793289?

Event Hosted by: Friends of the BC Archives

Guest Speaker: Aaron Chapman

Follow us into the museum.

Through Instagram Live, we'll bring you into the museum for this special session. 10 artists from across the region have been invited into the museum to creatively respond to this moment of change.

For this session in particular, we will be focusing on what was the Becoming BC gallery, and the important work of preserving and cataloging the objects within that space. The artists will be sketching during this Instagram Live, and we'll meet some of them along the way.  

February 20th marks World Whale Day, a day to raise awareness of these magnificent creatures, their beauty as well as their ecological value to the planet.

RBCM @Home

Join us on Tuesday afternoons throughout February as we take you on a guided tour of the Royal BC Museum's feature exhibition, Orcas: Our Shared Future, from the comfort and safety of your own home.

Orca enthusiast, writer, podcaster and filmmaker Mark Leiren-Young will explore a different area of the exhibition in each of the four 20-minute sessions.

This episode will take a look at orcas in captivity.

Episode 4 - February 22 2022 3:30pm PST
What can we do to protect orcas and our oceans?

Join us on Tuesday afternoons throughout February as we take you on a guided tour of the Royal BC Museum's feature exhibition, Orcas: Our Shared Future, from the comfort and safety of your own home via Facebook Live.

Orca enthusiast, writer, podcaster and filmmaker Mark Leiren-Young will explore a different area of the exhibition in each of the four 20-minute sessions.

This episode will delve in to some incredible Orca facts, and share more of what we know about the lives of these majestic creatures.

Join us on Tuesday afternoons throughout February as we take you on a guided tour of the Royal BC Museum’s feature exhibition, Orcas: Our Shared Future, from the comfort and safety of your own home via Facebook Live.