Modernization
Learn more about government’s intention to modernize the museum to protect our historic holdings and provide better access to our collections.
Learn more about government’s intention to modernize the museum to protect our historic holdings and provide better access to our collections.
We value your support and generosity. Your support helps us care for our collection and fund exhibitions, learning programs and environmental research.
Join us for ever-changing activities that use our amazing collections and superb exhibitions as the starting point for fun family learning.
This handbook, the first created by and for Indigenous peoples, provides practical information to help communities with the repatriation process
Visit the Research Portal to learn how the Royal BC Museum's natural history, human history and archival collections inspire and inform our research
Learn how the BC Archives provides access to records of enduring value to the province for public researchers, scholars and genealogists.
Discover the Natural History of British Columbia
Return to the museum and experience the excitement on on-site education programs. Programs are led by a museum educator and based on your topic, they may include time in the gallery, guided exploration and hands on with objects and archives.
Program Length: 60 minutes
Program Description: This program can be whatever you want it to be! Spend an hour with a museum educator in the Natural History gallery and focus on a related subject of your choice. Anything from insects, life in a tidepool, changing climates to adaptations in a rainforest. Please use the booking form to describe what subject your group would like to explore.
Program Keywords/ Vocab: Natural History, environment, climate, adaptations
Target Audience: Grades k – 12
Program Format:
Learning Objectives:
Practice observation skills
Be curious about the natural world around you
BC Curricular Connections:
Curricular Connections depends on the grade and subject picked
First Peoples Principles of Learning:
Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits, and the ancestors.
Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place).
Cost: $99
Availability: Wednesdays and Fridays until June 28, 2024 9:00 am, 10:30 am and 1:00 pm/p>
Program Length: 60 minutes
Program Description: Explore a variety of Indigenous innovations and technologies practiced by First Nations' peoples of BC. While sharing and discussing, RBCM's Indigenous Learning Program Developer will highlight three to four innovations and practices of BC First Nations with the visual support of objects and images.
Program Keywords/Vocab: First Peoples', Technology, Innovation, Dugout Canoes, Weaving, Adornment
Target Audience: Grades 6-12
Program Format: Depending on participants curricular needs, interests and abilities this program may be adapted or modified to suit learners and learning outcomes
Learning Objectives:
Analyze the exchanges of ideas, practises, and materials involving First Nations pre-contact and post-contact. Describe traditional BC First Nations technologies, including the uses of plants and animals
BC Curricular Connections:
Grades 6-12 First Peoples and Social Studies, example of Content
Social Studies 8 – Technological innovations
First Peoples Principles of Learning:
Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place)
Cost: $99
Availability: Wednesdays and Fridays starting in October – 10:30 am and 1:00 pm
BC teachers may book a self-directed, on-site tour for their classrooms. Please be advised of the following:
- The Natural History of BC Gallery is open.
- The First Peoples Gallery and Becoming BC Gallery are closed as work to modernize the museum takes place.
- The Old Town exhibit (part of the former Becoming BC Gallery) reopened July 29, 2023 with a new approach. Some parts will look the same and some a little different. We invite you to consider what changes might make future spaces more relevant, inclusive and engaging.
- Information about our current feature exhibitions is available here.
- We need your ideas, your feedback, your voice. Join the conversation about what’s next at your museum rbcm.ca/whatsnext
BC Grade School self-directed onsite visits are available Tuesday through Friday.
We look forward to hosting you onsite. For further inquiries please contact learning@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca