On International Museum Day, we are gathering together some of the most dynamic museum educators from across the country to show off the one part of their museum that they find most interesting. The challenge- if you were going to take a visitor on a 3 minute tour of your museum, where would you take them and why? 

Come join us on this fun and informative trip across Canada, where we drop into mulitple museums in order to learn about the especially good stuff.  

Happy International Museums Day! Meet Jan Vriesen, a man who worked at the Royal BC Museum as a diorama artist in the 1970s. He'll share stories of the creation of our most iconic displays. 

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All educators are invited to join presenters from Ocean Networks Canada and the Royal BC Museum to learn more about orcas through an inquiry approach! This special session will help you bring ocean literacy and stewardship topics into your classroom. Lots of resources will be shared. Ideal for grades 4-6 and 7-9. 

What's For Dinner?

Build an Ocean Food Chain with Ocean Networks Canada

The ocean supports so many unique and wonderful creatures. Like all living things, these creatures need energy to survive. Explore where this energy comes from as we 'dive' into ocean food chains. Play a game all about producers, consumers and decomposers, and learn about an incredible marine food chain that breaks all of the rules!

 Have you ever wondered about what it would be like to work at a museum? Meet Janet MacDonald, soon to be retired Head of Learning  and find out the highlights of her past 22 years at the Royal BC Museum and her hopes for the future of museum education. 

Join us for a special Science Odyssey presentation, Meet the Mammoth and learn more about the special adaptations needed by mammoths to survive the ice age. Ideal for ages 5 to 10. 

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Inspired by the release of The Object’s the Thing: The Writings of Yorke Edwards – A Pioneer of Heritage Interpretation in Canada, join Interpretation Canada and the Royal BC Museum for a discussion of mentorship in the field of heritage interpretation.  Some of us can trace our interpretation lineage to Yorke Edwards. Some of us have been mentored by elders, knowledge keepers, professors, or colleagues. Who are your mentors in interpretation?  What have they taught you?

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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