The members of the Victoria Centre Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Science Venture, University of Victoria and others as they present amazing astronomical activities for all ages.

Join us for:

Join members of the Royal BC Museum's outreach team for an Easter Scavenger Hunt at Meadow Park Green in Colwood, hosted by the City of Colwood and Royal Bay.

Many of us are in the dark about bats – their survival depends on our enlightenment.

BATS: Out of the Darkness is an exhibit developed by Kelowna Museums, together with community partners, that aims to bring the bats of British Columbia ‘out of the darkness and into our consciousness.’

Learn to write a traditional Ukrainian Easter Egg, "pysanka", under the guidance of Dawn and Olga Lang.

Through instruction, demonstration and printed hand outs, you will make and take home two pysanky along with new skills and knowledge.

Follow us into the galleries.

For our latest Instagram Live, come explore the Natural History gallery and the birds that inhabit it through the eyes of Trenton Franco from Special Bird Service.

Make it a penguin party! 

Bring the whole gang to our 2:00 p.m. 3D IMAX screening of Antarctica on March 26 or 27, and enhance your experience with our penguin party package (priced $7.95).

Penguin party package includes:

Photograph by Femi

Make it a penguin party! 

Bring the whole gang to our 2:00 p.m. 3D IMAX screening of Antarctica on March 26 or 27, and enhance your experience with our penguin party package (priced $7.95).

Penguin party package includes:

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.