Yorke Edwards was a pioneer in the field of heritage interpretation in Canada. First with BC Parks and then with the Canadian Wildlife Service, throughout the 1960s Edwards developed an approach to the interpretation of natural and cultural history with a focus on the “real thing”—the object, the place, the process, the person—in front of a visitor. Almost everyone who has visited a Canadian park or museum has been touched by Edwards’s legacy—but few know his name.

NEW DAY AND TIME! Join us for this special edition of RBCM@Outside as we join forces again with Exploring By The Seat of Your Pants, this time for BackyardBio! For the month of May, Exploring By The Seat of Your Pants is encouraging the public, and especially classrooms, to get outside to observe and photograph or sketch the natural world, then share what you find on iNaturalist. Join curators Dr. Gavin Hanke and Dr.

Museum Field Trip - Behind the Scenes

New to RBCM @ Home (Kids) - every first Wednesday of the month we'll go on a field trip of sorts to a new part of the Royal BC Museum.  

We'll show you back hallways and secret doors, as well as familiar animals and old town dioramas. Each month a new area to explore. This month we'll be going behind the scenes.

Wherever we end up, we'll sketch that area. So get your curiosity, some paper and a pencil ready.

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Broken Promises focusses on the dispossession of property owned by Japanese Canadians and will travel to the Royal BC Museum in 2022.Dr. Yasmin Amaratunga Railton, co-curator of the Broken Promises exhibit will talk about how the exhibit is told from the perspective of seven Japanese Canadian narrators and how the government policies of dispossession affected all generations of their families.

Creative Thinking through Collage Art with Wilma Millette

Join artist and educator Wilma Millette for this fun and playful session creating collage art. You do not need to be able to draw or paint to create this kind of art, you just need materials and your imagination.

WIlma will show us a little about her work as an artist, and then demonstrate how to create a portrait of your very own, using collage.

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Join three community panelists to learn more about the context and impact of the Farmers’ Protest abroad and here in British Columbia. 

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The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Saanich, British Columbia, first caught starlight through the Plaskett telescope on May 6, 1918. It marked a significant moment in Canada’s history, as the 1.8-metre telescope was the world’s largest at that time. Learn more about the history of the Observatory and it's founder, John Stanley Plaskett. 

NEW DAY AND TIME! Celebrate Earth Day with us as we walk in a garry oak meadow with CRD park naturalist Emma Jane at beautiful Mill Hill Regional Park on Vancouver Island. What spring beauties are poking their heads up? What kinds habitats do they like? What should you watch out for when you’re out on the trails this time of year? Botany curator Dr. Ken Marr will join us to share some of the landscape history of the area too! 

Dino Dice with Palaeontology Collection Manager Derek Larson

How do palaeontologists create names for new species of dinosaurs? We’ll learn about the meanings behind different dinosaur names while creating some of our own using special ‘dino dice’!

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Join Hugh Ellenwood, Archives Manager at the White Rock Museum and Archives and learn more about the history of White Rock's iconic pier.

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Join Dr. Daniel Muzyka, CEO, and Mischelle vanThiel, VP Inclusion and Community Engagement, Deputy CEO, to celebrate the opening of Orcas: Our Shared Future.

Spoken Word with Nisha Patel

In celebration of Sikh Heritage Month in BC join us for a conversation about Vaisakhi, the Sikh New Year Festival. Learn more about official events taking place by visiting  the Sikh Heritage Month BC website. 

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NEW DAY AND TIME!  Join host Liz Crocker and University of Victoria adjunct associate professor Alastair Kerr for a virtual exploration of Victoria’s dark history through the built heritage that remains. No place, object or practice is inherently valuable. Values are systems of belief created by humans and assigned to places. We must ask for whom is it valuable? When places are valued differently there is bound to disagreement and conflict.

Museum Field Trip- April Fools

Every first Wednesday of the month we'll go on a field trip of sorts to a new part of the Royal BC Museum.

We'll show you back hallways and secret doors, as well as familiar animals and old town dioramas. Each month a new area to explore.

For this session, because we are still in the April Fools' Day spirit, we'll visit the various galleries of the Royal BC Museum and see what odd and foolish additions have been placed there.

Join John Reynolds a professor at Simon Fraser University and also the Chair on the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) to learn more about Citizen Science and how you can help document BC's biodiversity. 

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Get into the April Fools' spirit by taking part in our scavenger hunt. Pick up a handout, featuring important clues, at the box office and see if you can spot the subtle tricks our Exhibits staff have played in the museum galleries.

Make sure to share your experience on social media. #FoolFind!”

Excuse Me, I Have a Question with Bronwen Hudson

The Royal BC Museum is a space for curiosity. Visitors of all ages come to the galleries, both in person and online, and they ask lots and lots of questions. And we love that.

For this session of RBCM @ Home (Kids), we will be joined by Bronwen Hudson, from our communications team. Bronwen gets questions all of the time, and tries to find creative ways to answer them. She also finds creative ways to encourage visitors to ask questions. 

Take a virtual trip to southesastern British Columbia and the town of Golden. The Golden Museum manager, Brittany Newman will be our guide as she shares some of the history of the district.  

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