Scary (Not So Scary) Old Town Tour

The Old Town section of the Royal BC Museum is filled with objects and stories of lives lived long ago. As we get closer to Halloween, things are getting spooky, and Old Town is no different. Let's imagine that ghosts and goblins travel up and down street and throughout the stores.

Scary (Not So Scary) Old Town Tour

The Old Town section of the Royal BC Museum is filled with objects and stories of lives lived long ago. As we get closer to Halloween, things are getting spooky, and Old Town is no different. Let's imagine that ghosts and goblins travel up and down street and throughout the stores.

Are you interested in collaborating with Indigenous artists? Join educator Hannah Morales for a discussion about a new, upcoming guide to provide you with resources to find success in your project and to collaborate in a way that fosters mutual respect and understanding. Living Cultures: an Empathy Building Toolkit will launch October 23, 2021, on the Royal BC Museum website.

Register in advance for this webinar:

Have you ever noticed a tangle of seaweed or plant matter washed up on a beach? Biologists call these clumps wrack. Specifically, on the south coast of Vancouver Island we often see algae and eelgrass wrack scattered across a beach. To some a wrack might look messy, but they are important food sources for insects, birds and other animals that eat the insects. Energy is transferred from the marine system to a semi-terrestrial, or terrestrial system (the beach!) through wrack, like a moveable feast. Join educator Liz Crocker and Royal BC Museum curators Dr. Henry Choong and Dr.

Adventure at Sea with the Maritime Museum of BC

The Maritime Museum of BC celebrates the nautical culture of British Columbia, through exhibits, collections and programs. And recently they've moved to a new location.

For this session of RBCM @ Home (Kids) we'll meet with our friends there and learn about their new space and do an activity that will make it seem like we are on the open ocean. 

Materials needed:

• Rope or string

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

Visit the Our Living Languages travelling exhibition at the Trail Museum and Archives - 1505 Bay Ave, Trail, BC V1R 4B2

On Saturday, September 25, the Royal BC Museum will visit Colwood, BC—the future home of the museum’s collections and research building—to meet members of the community and share information about the museum’s programs, collections, research and exhibitions. The Learning Team will be onsite to set up hands-on, family-friendly activities, and there will also be prize giveaways!

Outreach Event

On Saturday, September 25, the Royal BC Museum will visit Colwood, BC—the future home of the museum’s collections and research building—to meet members of the community and share information about the museum’s programs, collections, research and exhibitions. The Learning Team will be onsite to set up hands-on, family-friendly activities, and there will also be prize giveaways!

Come and meet the museum, Colwood! We can’t wait to meet you.

Juan de Fuca Library Parking Lot
10:00–11:00 am

Ocean Boulevard/ Esquimalt Lagoon
12:00–1:00 pm

Last century it was a working mine. Now, its an award-winning Museum and Canadian Signature Experience, turning out awe-inspiring sights and memorable family experiences. Join us for a virtual tour and learn more about the Britannia Mine Museum's relevant, innovative, engaging and adventuresome learning opportunities.

Register in advance:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5ev3TKNMST-O8Lwv1-CssQ

Pocket Gallery Exhibition

The BC Black History Awareness Society in partnership with the Royal BC Museum presents Hope Meets Action: Echoes Through the Black Continuum, the story of Afro-diasporic “British Columbia” history, past, present and future. Black “British Columbian” history has long been whitewashed in the annals of colonial history. Against the backdrop of white-centring walls, this exhibit daylights the living and ongoing history of Black belonging, told in this manner by the Black community for the first time.

Hello History (Part 2) with the Parliamentary Players  

For this week we go across the street (to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia) and back in time to meet some important historical figures. Thanks to the Parliamentary Players, during this session we'll meet both Laura Jamieson and Thomas Uphill. After we hear some interesting stories, we'll be able to ask them questions. Oh, hello there history- how have you been?

Hope Meets Action with curator Joshua Robertson 

For this special session of RBCM @ Home (Summer), we are partnering with NatureKids BC to celebrate all things Orcas. We'll explore the many different ways museums try to understand this amazing animal, while wondering about the many different parts of the world they roam. Hint- it's a lot of ways, and a lot of parts of the world.

Join the Learning Team at the Royal BC Museum for adventures in the galleries, behind the scenes, and even further than that. 

Play Dough Play

For this session of RBCM @ Home (Summer), we are again joined by educator Anu Shant. Where last month we made slime, this time we'll be making play dough. 

Continuing with the theme of sensory play, this session will give suggestions on what to do with the play dough you make and ways to engage the imagination.

Be ready to get your hands messy!

Materials needed:

What's That? Mystery Object with the Greater Victoria Public Library

The Royal BC Museum is filled with fascinating and unusual human history objects- things we still use but look at look different now, and things that haven’t been used since your grandparents were little kids (a long time ago).

The Royal BC Museum is filled with historical objects that help us better understand what it was like to live in the past. How are the objects we use now (like toys, cooking instruments, phones, etc.) different or similar to what your uncle or grandmother or older neighbour used when they were kids.  

For this session we’ll read a book about the wonder of museums, then look at a few of the historical objects within our museum collection and sketch them.

Get your paper and pencil ready for some fun time travel. 

What's That? Mystery Specimen with the Greater Victoria Public Library

The Royal BC Museum is filled with weird and wild natural history specimens- things that swim, things that fly, and things that…well, I’m not even sure what that is?

For this session we’ll look at one mysterious specimen, and go searching for clues to find out what it is. We might need to explore the galleries and collection areas to crack the case. We’ll also read a book about animals that might live in BC.

Follow us into the galleries.

We all have our favourite parts of the Royal BC Museum- that cozy corner, or that diorama that feels so real. Throughout the summer we'll meet community members, volunteers and staff that will show us their top spot.

Through Instagram Live, we'll bring you into the museum and chat about what it is about that space that is so meaningful, special and dynamic to them. From youth to grown-ups and everywhere in between, each week will be a new special guest. 

Salmon Famine

From sound pollution to plastics, there are many reasons that make it hard for Orcas to survive in our water. One major threat to the Southern Resident Orcas is the lack of their favourite food – Chinook Salmon. 

During this session, we will create some cardboard Chinook Salmon as we explore ways we can help Orcas by helping our oceans. 

This session will be guided by educator Jenny Arnold.

Materials needed:

Hello History with the Parliamentary Players, part 2

We again go across the street (to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia) and back in time to meet some important historical figures. Thanks to the Parliamentary Players, during this session we'll meet both Francis Rattenbury and Nellie Cashman. After we hear their fascinating stories, we'll be able to ask them questions. Oh, hello there history- how have you been?