You will create a mixed-media artwork inspired by the Royal BC Museum's bird collection. Beginning with found papers, artists will use a variety of mediums, including acrylics, pastels, ink pens and water-soluble graphite to build up a one-of-a-kind original painting. 

These classes are designed for students aged 16 years and older.

Meet our instructor 

Bon Om Touk is a Cambodian Water festival, first celebrated in the 12th century around the time of Angkorian King Jayavarman VII. It ushered in the fishing season, makes the gods happy and secured a good harvest. There are carvings at Bayon Temple, at Baneay Chmear that show naval battles similar to present day celebration. Today in Cambodia, it is a three day festival of boat racing, evening boat parades, carnival rides, fireworks and traditional music and performance.

An event designed for provincial, federal and municipal workers

You are cordially invited to join the Royal BC Museum staff for a participatory workshop to discuss the past, present and possible future of collaborative research between museum natural history staff and partners.

Explore a variety of Indigenous innovations and technologies practiced by First Nations peoples in British Columbia. While sharing and discussing, Royal BC Museum's Indigenous Learning Program Developer Steven Davies will highlight three to four innovations and practices of First Nations in BC with the visual support of objects and images. We will be analyzing the exchanges of ideas, practices and materials involving First Nations, pre-contact and post-contact, and describing traditional First Nations technologies including the uses of plants and animals.

Grade 5 to 8.

Live at Lunch is a monthly series where you can hear directly from curators, archivists, staff and researchers at the Royal BC Museum as well as from fascinating community members and guests. 

Join University of Victoria student Andrea Valcourt in the palaeontology preparation lab to see what it takes to prepare fossils for research, collections and exhibits. 

The Victoria Children's Choir is considered to be one of the top choral and music organizations in the city, and is highly respected for its consistent professional level of performing music throughout the concert season. 

Under the instruction of Artistic Director David Stratkauskas and an expert music team, the Victoria Children's Choir offers outstanding music education to more than 115 youth throughout Greater Victoria. Join us in Clifford Carl Hall with the Recital Choir as they perform songs to mark Remembrance Day. 

Following the conclusion of the ceremony at the cenotaph at the BC Legislature Building, stay and enjoy a live concert of wartime music played from atop of the Netherlands Centennial Carillon by the provincial carillonneur, Rosemary Laing.

Please note the timing will depend on when the official ceremony concludes.

Join us for this FREE livestream for learners of all ages. 

Remembering World War I with Royal BC Museum history collections manager Paul Ferguson. Join us as we examine World War I locations that are significant to British Columbians. We'll save time for a Q&A session at the end. 

Learn more about WWI here: https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pathways/british-columbia-remembers-the-great-war/

Educators and students in grades 6 to 9!

Join us for the is FREE livestream with our partners at Streamable Learning.

Remembering World War I with Royal BC Museum history collections manager Paul Ferguson. Join us as we examine World War I locations that are significant to British Columbians.

Hand-colouring is as old as photography itself. In the 19th century, colour tinting was applied to early black and white prints to make them more closely resemble reality. It was the advent of colour films in the 1950s that took photographic hand-colouring techniques into the realm of interpretive artistic expression, which is where it lives today. Discover the history of the medium through the Royal BC Museum's collection and then have the opportunity to create our own unique works of photographic art using black and white images from the museum's WWI and WWII era. 

Join students from Camosun College’s Anthropology of Death course for a pop exhibit. Inspired by the Angkor Wat: The Lost Empire of Cambodia and the Cambodian festival of Pchum Ben, students have researched different cultural practices of why and how the living continue to interact with the dead. To preform your own meritous act, please consider bringing a non-perishable food donation for the Camosun College Student Society Food Bank.

Image credit Khmer Times/ Chor Sokunthea

Colourful Business proves that business does not have to be boring. The second annual Colourful Business Expo displays the innovation and vitality of Victoria's Indigenous, Black, and immigrant entrepreneurs. Browse displays and listen to live music throughout the afternoon. 

Colourful Business is a project of the Kulea Culture Society, Royal BC Museum, Indigenous Prosperity Centre, BC Black History Awareness Society, REP Here in Canada, Victoria Foundation, Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce, the City of Victoria, and the Government of Canada.

Join us for a 30-minute guided tour and uncover some of the highlights and hidden gems of the Natural History Gallery. 

Natural History tours meet at the top of the escalator on the second floor. 

Happy Halloween! 

Join us for this FREE livestream.

Some kinds of arthropods have wings and antennae. The quantity and types of these body parts, and how they are arranged, tell you if an animal is an insect, spider, millipede, or centipede. There are reptiles that also can fly, but they don’t have wings. How many reptiles do you know from British Columbia?

Join curator of vertebrate zoology Dr. Gavin Hanke and curator of entomology, Dr. Joel Gibson for this live program. You'll leave with a new appreciation for animals that creep, crawl, and slither! 

Educators and students in grades kindergarten to 2!

Join us for this FREE livestream.

Some kinds of arthropods have wings and antennae. The quantity and types of these body parts, and how they are arranged, tell you if an animal is an insect, spider, millipede or centipede. There are also reptiles that can fly, but they don’t have wings. How many reptiles do you know from British Columbia? Join curator of vertebrate zoology, Dr. Gavin Hanke, and curator of entomology, Dr. Joel Gibson, as they lead you through this program about animals that creep, crawl and slither.

This event has been Cancelled.

Beatrix Potter was a woman of many interests and ambitions. However, we often come to know only one of these, her children’s books. Renowned for her fabulous Peter Rabbit storybook illustrations at the turn of the Century, Potter was also involved in the study of fungi (mycology) which inspired her land conservancy efforts in England’s Lake District later in life.

On now at Vernon Museum and Archives

As we enter the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032), to draw global attention to the critical situation of many Indigenous languages and to mobilize stakeholders and resources for their preservation, revitalization and promotion, we invite you to learn more about the state of Indigenous languages in BC in this ground-breaking interactive exhibition.

Using ink, quill pen and watercolours, we will create artworks inspired by the film launch of Fungi: Web of Life at IMAX® Victoria. Blotted line combined drawing with basic printmaking. Blotted line enables an artist to create a variety of paintings using one sketch. By placing tracing paper over the sketch, the artist uses a fountain pen to ink over a small section of the sketch and then transfers the ink onto a second sheet by lightly pressing or “blotting” the two papers together.

The South Vancouver Island Mycological Society Annual Mushroom Show. 

A display of hundreds of identified macrofungi for your learning and viewing pleasure. Experts will be on site to answer all your questions. Bring your fungi and have the experts identify them for you!  Free presentations in the Community Room from local Mycologists and Biologists will occur throughout the day. Topics include cultivations, identification and foraging tips and tricks. 

Presentation Schedule (presentations are 30 minutes)  

There are more than 3,000 different mushroom species in British Columbia. That’s more fungus diversity than anywhere else in Canada. Walk with us to nearby Beacon Hill Park where we’ll hunt for mushrooms with expert Andy MacKinnon, forest ecologist and co-author of Royal BC Museum’s best-selling handbook, Mushrooms of British Columbia.

This is not a harvesting expedition, but a fun, informal exploration of fungi!

Space is limited.

Be prepared for rain and uneven terrain.