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.

Dipping Into the Deep Sea
Invertebrate collection manager, Heidi Gartner will take us on a journey to the deep sea and share some resources you can use at home to keep exploring. 

Please click the link below to join the Zoom webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/613142072 
Webinar ID: 613 142 072
 

Ghost hunting brothers Abdul Aziz and Shawn O'Hara are back!

Join them as they reveal the 100% confirmed* supernatural history of British Columbia's gold rush, including the scandalous career of the Ghost Mayor of Barkerville, or the province's first epidemic of gold fever (a spooky cousin to foot-and-mouth disease). No stone will be left un-toured!

*The Royal BC Museum is legally compelled to inform the reader that none of these stories have been confirmed by museum staff. Or anyone else, in fact.

Recommended for audiences 12+

Ghost hunting brothers Abdul Aziz and Shawn O'Hara are back!

Join them as they reveal the 100% confirmed* supernatural history of British Columbia's gold rush, including the scandalous career of the Ghost Mayor of Barkerville, or the province's first epidemic of gold fever (a spooky cousin to foot-and-mouth disease). No stone will be left un-toured!

*The Royal BC Museum is legally compelled to inform the reader that none of these stories have been confirmed by museum staff. Or anyone else, in fact.

Recommended for audiences 12+

Ghost hunting brothers Abdul Aziz and Shawn O'Hara are back!

Join them as they reveal the 100% confirmed* supernatural history of British Columbia's gold rush, including the scandalous career of the Ghost Mayor of Barkerville, or the province's first epidemic of gold fever (a spooky cousin to foot-and-mouth disease). No stone will be left un-toured!

*The Royal BC Museum is legally compelled to inform the reader that none of these stories have been confirmed by museum staff. Or anyone else, in fact.

Recommended for audiences 12+

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

Orcas

Discover the stories and specimens that will be featured in the museum's upcoming exhibition, presented by head of Learning Janet MacDonald, head of Exhibitions Michael Barnes, and Gavin Hanke, curator of vertebrates. 

Drawing Dinosaurs with Dr. Victoria Arbour

RBCM @ Home (Kids) is like a museum playdate online. Visit with members of the museum staff who are working from home, along with families from across BC, as we make and learn together. Each session will have some kind of making activity, so get your paper and pencil crayons ready.

Drawing Dinosaurs
Join Curator of Paleontology Dr. Victoria Arbour for some dino drawing fun. 

What you'll need:

An Archivist’s Home Archives
Join archivist, Genevieve Weber for a look at some of the personal archival material she has around her home and what similar materials in your home might tell you about the lives of your family. 

Please click the link below to join the Zoom webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/297232098

Webinar ID: 297 232 098
 

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.

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 us for exclusive access to experts, collections and objects designed to give you a hands on experience and a deeper understanding.

Cultural Connections

Immerse yourself in Indigenous ways of knowing with Indigenous cultural liaison Leslie McGarry as your guide. On the first day Leslie will take you through an introduction to the diversity of cultures in British Columbia. On the second day you will dig into pre- and post contact history. On the third and final day you will look at where Indigenous people are today. 

Feature Length Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special one-hour tour in the museum’s natural history galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.

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. #museumfool

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.

This participatory discussion series tackles perspectives and definitions, upending assumptions to help us better understand ourselves and our community.
 

Trans Visibility

The International Transgender Day of Visibility is March 31. Celebrate transgender people and their courage and help raise awareness around the discrimination trans people still face.

For select adult-focused events this year, we will be providing childminding as a support for families. The childminding will be hosted in the Royal BC Museum’s Learning Centre, and the activities will be related in an age-appropriate way to the theme of the adult event. 

Registration required, designed for kids 3–10.

Parallel Play is available for:

Museum Happy Hour events

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.