Modernization
Learn more about government’s intention to modernize the museum to protect our historic holdings and provide better access to our collections.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Curator of Archaeology Grant Keddie will reveal how our emerging knowledge of the function of specific genes and the interactions of the human microbiome allows for the development of new ways of interpreting the essence of who we are and how we have spread across the planet.
About the speaker:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Roam like a Stegosaurus for an afternoon! Embark on a journey to a time when dinosaurs walked the earth.
Exciting activities will encourage grown-ups and kids to learn more about this prehistoric world and why it had such a large impact on the planet.
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.