Join us on the first Wednesday (usually) of the month to find out what's happening at the museum and archives. 

International Women’s Day

Join invertebrates collection manager Heidi Gartner, curator of history Tzu-I Chung, and curator of  art and images India Young to hear stories about amazing women collectors and creators in British Columbia. 

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s Becoming BC galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s Becoming BC galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Home Learners Series

With 660 million years of shifting earth and changing climate, BC has a long and rocky history, full of natural disasters. Through exploration and experimentation, this spring home learner’s series will investigate and discover historical and contemporary natural disasters, as well as the earth mechanics behind them.

Bring the whole family and join us every Sunday for exploration, excitement and family fun.

Planes, trains and automobiles help transport people across the province. We look at the history and future of travel.

Snapshot Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special thirty-minute tour in the museum’s Gold Rush gallery. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership. 

Snapshot Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special thirty-minute tour in the museum’s Gold Rush gallery. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership. 

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s Becoming BC galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

See for yourself where we usually keep those jars, boxes and bins and experience the working environment of our talented researchers and staff. This tour will focus on our entomology collection (insects) and how these collections help us to learn about our province.Tours are limited to 10 people. Sign up begins at the information desk in the main lobby one hour prior to the tour start time.

Destination Canada has identified these amazing tours as a Canadian Signature Experience.

See for yourself where we usually keep those jars, boxes and bins and experience the working environment of our talented researchers and staff. This tour will focus on our mammal collection and how these collections help us to learn about our province.Tours are limited to 10 people. Sign up begins at the information desk in the main lobby one hour prior to the tour start time.

Destination Canada has identified these amazing tours as a Canadian Signature Experience.

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s Becoming BC galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s Becoming BC galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Home Learners Series

With 660 million years of shifting earth and changing climate, BC has a long and rocky history, full of natural disasters. Through exploration and experimentation, this spring home learner’s series will investigate and discover historical and contemporary natural disasters, as well as the earth mechanics behind them.

Bring the whole family and join us every Sunday for exploration, excitement and family fun.

Find out about all of the surprisingly different ways that animals interact with each other.

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s Becoming BC galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Join us for a day of learning about bees and other pollinators.

This event includes a series of talks by leading pollinator and conservation scientists, designed as a kick off for the Youth Pollinator Leadership Team Program. The Youth Pollinator Leadership Team is a group of young adults that will be leading a pollinator monitoring and outreach program in the City of Victoria. While the day is part of the training process for the leadership team, we are pleased to open this up to the public so that more people can learn about our wonderful and diverse pollinators.

Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Performance Research Projects with the University of Victoria highlights the vibrant performance history of the Pacific Northwest region and gathers together many of the region's leading voices in archival knowledge, performance research, and artistic practice. Events on the 21st are open to the public, but registration is required to ensure seating. Please use the Registration link on the top right. 

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s Becoming BC galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s Becoming BC galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.

What does “family” mean to you?  Visit us on Family Day with your family members (of birth or of choice) to celebrate the idea and explore your provincial museum.

Join us at our annual photo station – featuring a mystery animal specimen – from 1 to 3 pm.  We’ll take and print photos of you and your family next to a mounted animal from our Natural History collection. 

What’s this year’s featured animal for the family portrait? Come find out!