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AFFILIATIONS
CURA (Community - University Research Alliance)

Object Database

  • Search the Royal British Columbia Museum’s extensive collection of artifacts, specimens and images. Order images for research or publication.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

  • Endangered Species- As part of a Canada-wide digital collections project, this internet exhibit provides information on some of the rare and endangered plants and animals in the Thompson-Okanagan region of British Columbia. You can click on the images to the left to see a list of endangered species, with species accounts.
  • Grace Bell Collection (bird recordings) - The Royal British Columbia Museum is pleased to bring its collection of bird calls, images and top scientific information to the public through the creation of the Grace Bell Collection Web site.This website is part of a series of "Virtual Exhibits" on Canadian birds being created by museums across Canada, through partnership with the Canadian Heritage Information Network (or CHIN).
  • Living Landscapes - Living Landscapes was created by the Royal British Columbia Museum as a regional project involving intensive cooperation with other museums, First Nations, educators, naturalists, and other agencies. Our goal is to facilitate the exploration and appreciation of the human and natural history of British Columbia from regional perspectives.

HOMEWORK HELPERS

  • Museum Notes - Handy resource tools on the Natural and Human History of British Columbia (pdf).
CONSERVATION
Articles preserving your photographs   care of skins and fur
  preservation of outdoor wooden sculpture caring for medals
  packing/transporting fragile objects care of wooden furniture
  preserving fans keep the bugs out
  conserving books   caring for gems and jewelry
  preserving fossils   permanence of art materials
  care of books   preservation of drawings
  Relative Humidity   preserve your works of art
     

Papers Conserving Biology Collections
  Conserving 3 Dimensional Artifacts
  Conserving Textiles and Accessions

 

ANTHROPOLOGY
Articles Bill Reid 1920 - 1998 The Mammoth Story
  Aboriginal Defensive Sites: Part 1 Settlements for Unsettling Times Staffs, Canes and Walking Sticks
  Aboriginal Defensive Sites: Part 2 Amateur Archaeology Begins Stone Sculptures from BC's Distant Past
  Aboriginal Defensive Sites: Part 3 Modern Archaeologists Collect Evidence Seated Human Figure Bowls
  Aboriginal Defensive Sites: Part 4 Local Sites are Dated; Final Conclusions The Beauty of Technology
  Petroglyphs, Heaven and Earth Hunting the Devil
  Emily Carr's Neighbourhood Kwah's Dagger
  Naturally Weird: Concretions Kwah's Dagger - Part 2
  The Atlatl Weapon Songhees Pictorial

Collections Audio/Visual

Papers Education History Bibliography
  Education Volunteer Handbook
  Japanese Shipwrecks in British Columbia - Myths and Facts
  Totem Poles

 

MODERN HISTORY
ARTICLES The Art of the Whaler   Weaving Doukhobor History
  First in the Air in BC   Let There Be Light
  The Plywood Industry in BC (Part 1)   The Return of the "Sweetheart of the Lake"
  The Plywood Industry in BC (Part 2)   Jumping Off a Cliff
  Fishing Rods, History and Circumstance   The Cook Dagger?
  Mining the North Coast: A Ghost Town's Past   Italians in British Columbia

 

NATURAL HISTORY
Articles Native Plants of British Columbia Menacing Hitchhikers
  Naturescaping: A Wildlife Habitat in Your Own Backyard   Dreamer Fish

Papers
Earth History Atmospheric Change, Forests and Biodiversity
  Climates and Landscapes from Plant Fossils of the Quaternary

Entomology How to Collect Dragonflies Robber Flies of Rhadiurgus variabilis
The Blue Darners Taxonomy of Lasiopogon montanus
  Robber Flies (Diptera: Asilidae)    

Ichthyology
Sticklebacks: Remarkable Evolutionary Engines

Invertebrate
Zoology
Marine Medicines Psolid Sea Cucumber Psolidium Bidiscum
Taxonomy of Sea Cucumbers Tube Morphology
  Mud, Glorious Mud    

General Papers Abstracts from the Forest Renewal of British Columbia  
Type specimens at the Royal British Columbia Museum  
  Checklist of the Mammals of British Columbia  

Student Papers A Bibliography of the Red-listed Lagomorphs and Rodents of British Columbia  
Dragonflies of the Family Aeshnidae in British Columbia
Variability within the Gasterosteus species complex in Coastal British Columbia (pdf format) 
  Sphinx Moth
  Southern Vancouver Island Butterflies
  Chitons of British Columbia
  Victoria's Native Plants

 

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