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.

Students from dozens of classrooms throughout the Greater Victoria School District are engaging in place-based learning about the natural and cultural history of the Salish Sea. Through in-class inquiry projects and a seafaring adventure with Eagle Wing Tours, they have been making deep connections and surprising discoveries about our big blue backyard.

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

Changing the World through Photography

How have photographs helped to shape public opinion, and when has misrepresentation muddied the waters of progress toward social justice? Join Lorilee Wastaecoot , photographer David Ellingsen and Royal BC Museum curator of art and images India Young for a discussion. 

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

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.

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

Don’t wake up the bear! Hibernation is important, and we’ll learn all about it.

For this Wonder Sunday only and to follow along the theme of hibernation, Alejandra Zubiria Perez will join in on the topic and chat about her current findings on grizzly bears.

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 the Royal BC Museum and local science educators at St. Margaret's School for a Community Science Celebration of fun activities and presentations on science, technology, engineering, arts and math. Science World will also be onsite to provide exciting live science shows. 

This event is the launch of the Symbiosis Southern Vancouver Island regional hub.

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 on this special date for Live at Lunch to find out what’s happening at the museum and archives.

Forests Without Trees: Hydroids and their role 

Henry Choong, curator of invertebrates will provide an introduction to hydroids and their ecology and present highlights of hydrozoan research at the Royal BC Museum. 

Becoming BC gallery

Parents and care-providers: Have you ever wanted to have a tour just for you, so you can learn more about the galleries and share your learning with your little ones? This program for members gives you the chance.

While you take a tour led by a Learning staff member, themed childminding will be provided for your kids. You get time up in the galleries to learn, kids are given a chance to play, and you all have lots to talk about on the way home. 

Childminding is designed for kids ages 2-5.

The entire series:

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.

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

Don’t wake up the bear! Hibernation is important, and we’ll learn all about it.

This event will take place in the Natural History Gallery

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.

The New Year is a great time to make a resolution to slow down. What better way to do so than to put away your smartphone, sit down at our letter-writing station and write a letter?
We provide the paper, the pens, the envelopes and even the stamps.