Both geology and geography describe the overall physical shape of the world. Learn about the science behind geology, as well as global geography and features like lakes, volcanoes and mountains. 

Leave the museum knowing more about the environment in which you live and with plentiful information to use in your future travels.

This event will take place on the second floor.

Join Heidi Gartner, invertebrates collection manager, Dr. Joel Gibson, curator of entomology and a CRD Regional Parks Interpreter to learn about the fascinating world of invertebrate reproduction. We'll search the rare dune environment and intertidal zone for flying and marine invertebrates. You can leave your (nature-nerd) hat on! 

Wear suitable footwear and be prepared for rain.

Ages 14 and up.

Meet at the grassy area adjacent to the picnic shelter, by the parking lot off Homathko Road at Island View Beach Regional Park.

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 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.

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. 

Find out what's happening at the museum and archives in these monthly talks featuring curators, staff and researchers.

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.

The Royal BC Museum is your museum. Join us on Family Day to share the museum with your loved ones.

On Family Day 2019, join us for a Learning Centre Design Playdate from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. The Royal BC Museum is in the process of developing an inclusive learning centre, a hub for learning and sharing for museum visitors of all ages.

Drop in to playfully test out ideas for programming and contribute your thoughts and ideas on how to create a centre that feels relevant and exciting for your family.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Lynne Marks, Department of History, University of Victoria

British Columbia was and remains a less religious place than the rest of the country. Featuring highlights from her recent award-winning book, Infidels and the Damn Churches: Irreligion and Religion in Settler British Columbia, Lynne Marks will discuss the range of archival sources that went into her research.

Both geology and geography describe the overall physical shape of the world. Learn about the science behind geology, as well as global geography and features like lakes, volcanoes and mountains. 

Leave the museum knowing more about the environment in which you live and with plentiful information to use in your future travels.

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. 

Put some springtime swing into your step at the next Night Shift event.

Slip on your dancing shoes and get ready to hop the night away at the hottest Valentine's party in town.

Learn some swing steps with a dance lesson then put your moves into practice on the dance floor as a live band plays tunes from times gone by. Don’t worry if you don’t have a partner: that’s what swing is all about…!

Strike a pose in our photo booth, learn a little about the history of swing dance and discover some vintage hair and make-up tips and tricks.

We often see the role of museums and classrooms in society as presenting an unbiased engagement with history- spaces used as a mechanism for developing dominant narratives through a presumed neutrality. But what happens when we embrace the messiness of history and honestly call into question even the possibility of neutrality?

What happens when we actively work to de-centre the established dominant narratives, complicate an assumed consensus, in order to amplify multiple voices and marginalized histories?

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. 

Calling all educators.

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.