Learn what it takes to be a wildlife photographer at these fun afternoon programs. We'll have discussions, examining various photographs and their backstories.

Appreciate the effort and determination it takes to be a photographer, and perhaps snap the perfect shot yourself. 

This event will take place on the second floor.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

British Columbia supports an incredible diversity of animals, and some of them are wonderfully weird. This camp will take a look at some of the stranger ones, exploring why they are the way they are. Using the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition as a jumping-off point, campers will even construct their own bizarre beast.

The camp will be hands-on in the museum galleries, in the natural history collection and out in nature, while we all embrace our inner weirdness.

Guest Speaker: Robert D. (Bob) Turner, Curator Emeritus, Royal BC Museum; heritage consultant, photographer and author.

Learn what it takes to be a wildlife photographer at these fun afternoon programs. We'll have discussions, examining various photographs and their backstories.

Appreciate the effort and determination it takes to be a photographer, and perhaps snap the perfect shot yourself. 

This event will take place on the second floor.

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. 

Settle down in the lobby of the museum and listen to music from the Chaparral High School Orchestra. The Chaparral High School Orchestra is based in Parker, Colorado.

Join the Victoria Genealogy Society on their tour of the BC Archives. This workshop and behind-the-scenes look into the Archives’ collections will give seasoned genealogists new tools for researching their family history. Participants will be given an introduction to the BC Archives’ catalogue before delving into court, prison, institution, and coroner’s records, as well as genealogical gems like the Pioneer Medallions applications.

This event will start in the Learning Centre.

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. 

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. 

Inspired by the Photo Story Award category at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, we will talk about how photography can be used to promote social action, engage public interest and motivate change.

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.

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.