Fungi Fest at the Royal BC Museum

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 fascinating community members and guests.

Mycoheterotrophs are a group of distinctively weird vascular plants. They lack chlorophyll, and the…

Fungi: The Web of Life is coming to the giant screen at IMAX® Victoria!

Discover the mysterious world that connects all life on
Earth. Out of sight, between the world of plants and
animals, another world exists—the kingdom of fungi.

Watch this space for details on times…

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…

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…

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…