Royal BC Museum curator of entomology Dr. Joel Gibson will be joined by graduate student from the University of Berkley, Nina Pak to discuss entomology in the classroom, at the museum and on the beaches. 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/98081190408

Join Dr. Tzu-I Chung, curator of history, and John Adams, historian and owner of Discover the Past and Secretary to the Board of the Victoria Chinatown Museum Society, for a virtual walk along Fan Tan Alley in Canada’s oldest Chinatown. We’ll visit a new display Peering into the Past from the Royal BC Museum, in partnership with the Victoria Chinatown Museum Society and the Salient Group. The pop-up exhibit in Victoria’s Fan Tan Alley showcases a digital version of a unique historical artifact from Chinatown.

Orange Shirt Day with Eddy Charlie and Kristin Spray

Orange Shirt Day is held annually on September 30 in Canada to bring people together to honour and remember the sacrifices of residential school survivors and their families.

For this session, join residential school survivor Eddy Charlie and friend Kristin Spray as they share some of the difficult history of intergenerational harm caused by residential schools and the paths toward healing. 

Join Alexis Bazinet, a recent UVic graduate interning with the Royal BC Museum as a NSERC USRA student under the supervision of Dr. Victoria Arbour, curator of paleontology. Alexis’s research will explore fossil feather anatomy and images in the hopes to identify birds living around an ancient lake system in the Okanagan Highlands fossil assemblage

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/95360121792

Amazing Armoured Dinosaurs with Dr. Victoria Arbour

Ankylosaurs are called armoured dinosaurs because they have bony plates and spikes in their skin. 

Join curator of Paleontology Dr. Victoria Arbour as we make our own ankylosaurs out of play-doh and pasta, beads, or buttons. During this session you'll learn how animals use armour to protect themselves.

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

What you'll need:

See some of the public submissions for the Royal BC Museum's Covid-19 Collecting project and meet some of the folks who subitted. What do you think should be collected, and how do you think BC communities will want to remember this historic time?

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/99846316454

Due to the very high risk air quality in Victoria, we have cancelled this RBCM@Outside session. Please be safe if you must go outside. You can monitor Greater Victoria's air quality here: https://weather.gc.ca/airquality/pages/bcaq-010_e.html

Alternative School Supplies with Franny, Rupert and Skye

The school year is beginning, and whether that learning happens in a classroom, a living room or out in the community, we all need to be prepared. And while paper, pencils, books and a Zoom account are important, there are other school supplies that perhaps even more important for learning. 

Join Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, co-curator, for a virtual visit to the Sikh Heritage Museum located in the Gur Sikh Gurdwara (temple), a National Historic Site in Abbotsford, BC. The museum serves as a place for innovative programming and exhibits recognizing and raising awareness of Sikh heritage and history in B.C. and Canada.

Please click the link below to join the webinar
https://zoom.us/j/99037733300

Learning about Leaves with Dr. Ken Marr

Everyone classifies objects into groups all the time, whether it is our clothing, toys, movies or books. But why do we do this? And how does it help us make sense of the world around us.  

Join staff from Science World to learn about coding without a computer. 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/94419995325 

Seeing and Sketching with Mitra Nikoo

Nature is amazing. There are so many things to see in the world around us, from big trees to little insects. But how can we better understand what it is we are seeing. 

Join us this week as science illustrator Mitra Nikoo shows us some of the ways to understand nature through sketching. We'll discover the tools that you can use when you are outside exploring, and then learn skills about how to sketch a specimen.

Jana Stefan, the production team lead of exhibitions at the Royal BC Museum, has lived and worked in Antarctica for two seasons and is intimately familiar with R.F. Scott’s expedition hut.  Join us to learn about the extreme living conditions, breathtaking views and painstaking conservation work at the world’s most remote historic site.  

Link to join Webinar

https://zoom.us/j/95861151299 

Beyond the Box with Hannah Morales

Bentwood boxes of Northwest Coast Indigenous Nations are used for far more than just storing items.

Join us this week as Cowichan educator, Hannah Morales, shows you how to make your own bentwood box out of paper, learn how real bentwood boxes are constructed and used and hear a Cowichan legend.

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

What you'll need:

RBCM @ Home Indigenous Genealogy

RBCM@ outside with Parks Canada on Saturna Island

Join us for this special RBCM@ outside at East Point on Saturna Island. We will virtually journey to Gulf Islands National Park Reserve to meet up with Parks Canada Interpreter Athena George for a guided walk along this scenic coastline. We’ll learn about southern resident orcas and Moby Doll, one of the first whales captured for captivity, right off East Point. We’ll have time for a quick stop at Saturna Heritage Centre. No guarantee we’ll see whales. But we might! 

Paint the Ocean You Want to See with Rayne Ellycrys Benu

Celebrate the Salish Sea and the oceans around the world in creative ways. Using paint and your imagination, we'll explore fun techniques to express your hopes and dreams for our oceans. 

Rayne Ellycrys Benu is an artist and nationally published festival and theatre photographer who teaches people to let their inner light shine. 

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

What you'll need:

RBCM @ Home goes to the Tumbler Ridge Dinosaur Discovery Gallery

Explore the history of the natural world from the Triassic Period through to the Ice Age at the Tumbler Ridge Dinosaur Discovery Gallery from the comfort of your home. Their collection spans over 200 million years of biodiversity featuring marine life, plant life, dinosaurs, and more.

Link to join Webinar
https://zoom.us/j/94811920969 

A Little Bit Batty with Jen Garner

Bats are often misunderstood, but they are fascinating creatures. Did you know that a single Little Brown Bat can eat over 600 mosquitos in an hour? Or that BC is home to 15 of Canada’s 18 species of bats?

This week we travel to Kelowna and visit with Jen Garner from the Kelowna Museums as she shows off the exhibition BATS: Out Of The Darkness and we celebrate these amazing creatures with a fun activity.

We are travelling to the head of the Portland Canal, near the Alaskan panhandle in the town of Stewart on the north west coast of British Columbia. Shirley Rosichuk from the Stewart Historical Society and Museum will share highlights of the collection and stories of her community. 

Link to join Webinar
https://zoom.us/j/98737827283