Botanical Art with Coral and Eden Forbes

Spring flowers are starting to bloom and are the perfect focus for an art project. Coral and Eden Forbes will press flowers and leaves using supplies from around your home and then create nature-themed art with you!

Please remember that flowers become seeds which are the next generation of plants and food for many animals so please gently remove only one or two per plant. Also, flowers must not be picked in parks, so stick to gardens after asking permission first! 

Supplies needed:

Meet UVic student Elizabeth Rohlicek and learn about her project working with whale fossils at the Royal BC Museum.

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O9zjT7-0QVWBBzhBEU7fSA

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Paper Airplanes with Colin Stepney

Up, up and away with aviation. Join Royal BC Museum volunteer Colin Stepney as we explore the history of airplanes and aviation on Canada’s West Coast. We will be exploring how getting around in the air in our province has changed over the last century and where our future lies in the skies.

Then, after learning how lift (think wings!) and air resistance (think parachutes!) works in some hands-on activities, we will learn to built a few different types of paper airplanes for some at-home flying!

Discover more about our current Pocket Gallery installation Collaborating for Conservation with community ecologist and conservation biologist Dr. Brian Starzomski from the University of Victoria who will share how your observations of nature can help us all to better understand BC's most beautiful landscapes.

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VNKDeWJWQTezDWx5--fyLw

Stinging nettle is a common plant along BC's coast, Haida Gwaii and Vancouver Island. You might know how to avoid it, but do you know how to eat it? Join learning program developer Liz Crocker and botany collections manager Heidi Guest for a virtual, outdoor exploration. Heidi will reveal some wild and wonderful things about stinging nettle, like how to identify, prepare and cook this amazingly versatile plant. 

How does trash get into our oceans?

Join Paloma Corvalan, from Sea Smart, for this fun, hands-on activity where we'll learn about how trash from the land can end up in our oceans. Kids will be adding colours to paper and splashing water on it, so make sure you get set up in a space where they can get a little messy.

Meet professional opera singers, tenor Kaden Forsberg and baritone Micah Schroeder, for an informal, no holds barred, entertaining talk (and sing)  about a 'day in the life' of a professional opera singer. Get a sneak peek into the singer's glamourous life of travel and the learn more about the experience of singing for thousands of people, and discover the 'not so glamourous' elements- like working to maintain the voice and what it takes to learn a three-hour opera, 

Museum Field Trip 

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.

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

Supplies needed:

Curator of art and images Dr. India Rael Young will share highlights from the paintings, drawings and prints (PDP Collection) housed in the BC Archives. How did these artists end up in the archives and what can this early work tell us about the province and the people who lived here?

Fouling communities are composed of organisms growing on artificial structures such as docks, boat hulls, and aquaculture gear.

Draw and Tell with the Greater Victoria Public Library 

Everyone loves stories with great illustrations, but have you ever heard of a story that illustrates itself?

Librarians Caitlin and Devon will share some of their favourite Draw and Tell stories and you can draw the stories along with them! After a few stories we will talk about Freedom to Read Week and why intellectual freedom is so important.

Materials needed:

Join Parks Canada Archeologist Donalee Deck and Traditional Knowledge holder and Nahanni Consensus Team member George Tsetso to hear about their finds and experiences with archeological discoveries at Gahnįhthah Mįe in Nahanni National Park Reserve.

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https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yykq_Z5ZSEud6j0kgw7C7g

Mural Making with Kay Gallivan

A year ago the Royal BC Museum's Learning Centre received a colourful new addition. A large scale mural was added to the main wall of the space, created in collaboration with a team of local artists, a local Songhees elder and a group of dedicated youth.

Kay Gallivan was the lead artist for the project, and this session will be a chance to learn about how it was created, and what it all means. And we'll even have a chance to envision what your mural would look like.

Materials needed:

On February 18, 1965 an avalanche wiped out the Granduc Mine camp, killing 26 men and injuring 17 others . Learn the story of the disaster, and the heroic rescue efforts in this joint presentation with the Stewart Museum and Partners in Motion Inc. Take part in more Heritage Week activities by visiting the Heritage BC webiste.

Get an exclusive sneak peek into the making of the highly anticipated exhibition Orcas: Our Shared Future. Go behind locked doors to see what it takes to build this 10,000-square-foot exhibition. Dr. Gavin Hanke will take you on a tour of how exhibitions are created behind the scenes.

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https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z7SbGsQWToWaPGSS1mAG1g

Happy Birthday Charles Darwin! 

215 years ago on this day Darwin was born, and over those centuries our understanding of science and connections to the world around us has only accelerated and deepened. From observing and naming diverse species, to helping to shape our knowledge around evolution and natural selection, his work has been foundational.

Railroad Lanterns and Signals with the Bulkley Valley Museum

Railroads connect communities around British Columbia and across Canada. And occasionally, railroads are the very thing that help bring about community.

Every February, Canadians are invited to participate in Black History Month festivities and events that honour the legacy of Black Canadians, past and present. Join us for a conversation with Fran Morrison from the BC Black History Awareness Society about BC's Black pioneers. 

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K3ZoK-METd-54L6ruKJ5-w

Window Flower Making 

Join Museum Learning Team Volunteer Maia Looi and Curator of History Dr. Tzu-I Chung as they learn their way through the art of 'window flower making' - Chinese paper-cutting 101. It is part of the tradition of celebrating the Chinese New Year - decorating windows with 'window flowers' made of red paper.

Supplies needed:

• scissors  
• red paper

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