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

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.

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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.

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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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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: