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.

Walking the Forest Floor 

During the winter months, throughout the forests of British Columbia, it might seem like there is not much happening. But with a little digging, we can find that much is going on. 

For this session of RBCM @ Home (Kids) join us online as we explore the Natural History gallery, and in particular the forest diorama. What animals and plants can we discovery as we walk the forest floor?

One of the animals we will meet along the way will be a Red Fox, and we will even make our own Red Fox. 

Event hosted by: Friends of the BC Archives

Guest Speaker: Laura Ishiguro

Join us in Juneau at the Alaska State Museum with curator of exhibitions, Jackie Manning and curator of collections, Steve Henrikson to learn more about their innovative community curator program and their new exhibit.

Cranes with Korina + Kids

Last year for RBCM @ Home (Kids) we had a session with artist/educator Laura Minta Holland where we learned to make your own origami cranes. This workshop was inspired by the Japanese practice of senbazuru, folding 1000 cranes in hopes of having one wish granted. This repetitive process allows for a space for calm, focus and mindfulness, which has been helpful during these unprecedented world events.

What does it look like when kids come together to create hundreds of paper cranes? Come to the Royal BC Museum to check out this pop up display, created by students from school district 61.

How this came about...

Between 1979 and 1982 more than 60,000 refugees from Vietnam resettled in Canada, about half of them were supported in their arrival by private sponsors. Join educator Liz Crocker and artist Chrystal Phan for a virtual walk in Victoria. We’ll look at sites that were significant to Chrystal's family and other Vietnamese Landed Immigrants as they arrived on Canada’s west coast in the fall of 1980 and began their journey to citizenship. 

Art and Animals- Insect Ink Painting

This Saturday morning workshop series welcomes kids back to the museum in creative and fun ways! Dive into the world of the animals of BC and our connection to them through hands-on art activities and adventures within the galleries. Join us each week for a new theme and new art project.

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

Listen Up!

This After Hours event welcomes you back in auditory style. Join us as we explore history through sound- be a foley artist, listen to soundscapes made by the Anthropology of Sound class from the University of Victoria in response to museum objects and dioramas, and much more. 

No food and drinks this time...but as William Shakespeare said, "If music be the food of love...play on".

Visit the Our Living Languages travelling exhibition at the Bulkley Valley Museum - 1425 Main Street, Smithers, BC V0J 2N0
Open Thursday and Friday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Admission by Donation https://bvmuseum.org/exhibit/our-living-languages/

Painting Rocks for a Change with Insiyah and Rubina Dharsee

Nature Big and Small Tour

British Columbia is vast and diverse. Just a short walk in a rural forest or an urban park will mean passing by countless species of plants and animals, big and small. 

For the first half hour of this walking tour, we'll roam the Natural History gallery looking at animals as big as a mammoth and as small as a moth. And then the second half hour of the tour we'll do a hands on activity that will help us connect deeper to the natural world.

Each tour will have a cap of no more than 10 people.

Nature Big and Small Tour

British Columbia is vast and diverse. Just a short walk in a rural forest or an urban park will mean passing by countless species of plants and animals, big and small. 

For the first half hour of this walking tour, we'll roam the Natural History gallery looking at animals as big as a mammoth and as small as a moth. And then the second half hour of the tour we'll do a hands on activity that will help us connect deeper to the natural world.

Each tour will have a cap of no more than 10 people.