Join us for three days of specular performances on an outdoor stage at the Royal BC Museum. Each day will begin with a traditional welcome by the Esquimalt and Songhees, your host nations, followed by by more than 100 cultural performers from across BC, telling their history and stories on stage with their songs and dances.

Join us for three days of specular performances on an outdoor stage at the Royal BC Museum. Each day will begin with a traditional welcome by the Esquimalt and Songhees, your host nations, followed by by more than 100 cultural performers from across BC, telling their history and stories on stage with their songs and dances.

Join us for three days of specular performances on an outdoor stage at the Royal BC Museum. Each day will begin with a traditional welcome by the Esquimalt and Songhees, your host nations, followed by by more than 100 cultural performers from across BC, telling their history and stories on stage with their songs and dances.

Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history 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.

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. 

This World Oceans Day join Curator of Vertebrate Zoology Dr. Gavin Hanke and Invertebrates Collections Manager Heidi Gartner, as they conduct a beach seine at Willows Beach. Friends of Uplands Park will join us too! In the past we've caught more than 20 species of fishes, along with crabs, shrimp and other invertebrates (animals without backbones). What will we discover this year? Everyone will get an up-close look at what lives beneath the waves. 

Find out what’s happening at the museum and archives in these monthly talks featuring curators, staff and researchers. First Wednesday of each month. Admission by donation.

Back to the Beach: Insects on the Shores of Vancouver Island
Dr. Joel Gibson, curator of entomology

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

Guest Speaker: Sally Butterfield, Archivist, BC Archives

The BC Archives acquires public records from the Government of British Columbia as well as private records of provincial significance from individuals, families, organizations, and businesses. The BC Archives receives hundreds of inquiries each year from private individuals or organizations interested in donating their records – each inquiry is considered on a case by case basis.

Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in 2012? This month’s Wonder Sunday will venture outside of the feature exhibition and allow visitors to go in-depth with their knowledge of the Maya culture. Hands-on activities will help you explore how this great civilization flourished.

In addition, you will learn about the creation of the Maya architecture, writing, mathematics and astronomy.

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. 

This participatory discussion series tackles perspectives and definitions, upending assumptions to help us better understand ourselves and our community. An intriguing mix of facilitators will get the conversation started, but where it goes from there is up to you.

Join the Dr. Lisa Gunderson, an award winning educator and equity consultant, and Moussa Magassa, a Human Rights Educator from the University of Victoria and staff from the Royal BC Museum to discuss how to create welcoming, safe and inclusive communities.

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 modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.