Visit our Pride Button Station in the museum and create a button that celebrates love, identity, and inclusion! Choose from colorful designs or craft your own unique message. All supplies are provided, so you can wear your creation with pride or share it with someone special. Fun for all ages!

From gold rushes to temperate rainforests, British Columbia’s past and present is vast and diverse. Join one of our knowledgeable educators for a highlights-only tour through the museum’s immersive Human and Natural History galleries.

Join one of our educators for a guided walking tour of our Native Plant Garden! Learn about the plant neighbors we share here on the BC coast, including some of their Indigenous uses. Approximately eight different plants will be highlighted.

The Royal BC Museum is out in the Community

Join the Learning and Engagement team at the 11th annual World Ocean Day Celebrations at Fisherman's Wharf! Visit our booth for a hands-on experience with real museum specimens from natural history collection. Explore the incredible diversity of life along the coast, take part in engaging, ocean-themed activities, and learn more about the vital role the ocean plays in all our lives. Come connect with the ocean, ask questions, and discover how we can all play a part in protecting our the marine ecosystems around us.

A screening and panel discussion presented by Canadian EH Society

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Mount Logan’s first ascent in 1925, the Canadian EH Society brings to light stories of resilience on Canada’s highest peaks. The historic climb, as captured in the diaries of naturalist Hamilton Mack Laing and vividly retold in Trevor Marc Hughes’ book Capturing the Summit, offers a rare and compelling account of what it took to reach the summit.

This event is for the queer community. We welcome anyone who identifies under the 2SLGBTQIA+ umbrella.

For Ocean Week Victoria, we're hosting a special documentary screening of Lost Orca: The Legend of Luna. In 2001, a baby orca lost contact with his family in a fjord on the coast of Vancouver Island. Orcas are highly social beings, and he started trying to make friends with people. What happened then is the stuff of legend. 

For all ages

Explore the world of The Adventures of Kelp Creature in this special online event! Join  author and musician Alex Chen and illustrator Lis Xu as they share the inspiration and process behind their new picture book and musical audiobook - a captivating blend of storytelling, ocean stewardship, vibrant artwork, and mesmerizing sounds. 

Join us for a special Ocean Week Victoria experience in partnership with the Greater Victoria Public Library. Visit pop-up reading corners in the Natural History gallery and museum lobby, where you can enjoy a collection of ocean-themed books, for all ages.

Surrounded by fascinating ocean specimens, these will be perfect spaces to relax and read about sea creatures, underwater adventures, and the mysteries of the deep. Come explore the wonders of the ocean through stories that will inspire and delight. 

For Ocean Week Victoria, we're bringing a special documentary screening of Send Kelp to BC's largest screen! The film follows the journey of Frances Ward, a "Seaweed Nerd" and adventurer, as she sets out to build a kelp farm off the coast of Vancouver Island. 

Combining breathtaking underwater cinematography, Send Kelp explores many remarkable surprises about this game-changing organism and how it, along with the efforts of entrepreneurs like Frances, just might help change the world. 

The ocean is full of mysteries - and so is the Royal BC Museum's  collection. For Ocean Week Victoria, we're bringing rarely seen specimens and objects out of the collections and into the spotlight. From deep-sea creatures to coastal marvels, every area of our natural history department (and a few of the human history departments) will be showcasing ocean-related specimens and objects that are usually stored behind the scenes. 

The Royal BC Museum is out in the Community

By Design: A Journey Through Arts and Culture Talk Series

Guests of all ages are invited to kick off their Summer of STEAM at this interactive event. You’ll say hello to our many-legged friends with the Victoria Bug Zoo, contemplate the depths of space with the Centre of the Universe, meet dinosaurs past and present with Dino Lab Inc. and the Raptors Centre, get hands on with the science of colour with the Greater Victoria Art Gallery and get up close with specimens from the Royal BC Museum's handling collection!

Stop by to enjoy music by the

Designed for ages 4 to 9

Join us Live Online with our friends at Streamable Learning!

Plants and animals possess unique features and behaviors, known as adaptations, that help them survive and thrive in their environments. Join us for a visit to the Natural History gallery to explore how various BC animals have evolved extraordinary adaptations to navigate and flourish in their local habitats.

Staff and colleagues of the RBCM Entomology Collection continue to expand and share our knowledge of the insect biodiversity of

May is Asian Heritage month. Join members of the Urasenke Tankokai Victoria Association as they demonstrate the Japanese tea ceremony (Chado- The Way of Tea). Urasenke has long been active in promoting worldwide understanding and appreciation of chado. 

May is Asian Heritage month. Join members of the Urasenke Tankokai Victoria Association as they demonstrate the Japanese tea ceremony (Chado- The Way of Tea). Urasenke has long been active in promoting worldwide understanding and appreciation of chado.

Eat. Drink. Explore.

Let’s get physical! Join us for a high-energy After Hours event designed just for adults, where movement meets play.  Watch a bhangra dance performance and then learn a few steps for yourself. Try your hand (and feet!) at giant Twister, centre yourself with tai chi lessons, enjoy classic games like parachute and Simon Says, and mingle with others through an interactive game of Bingo—all to the beat of DJ Boitano. It’s all about motion, movement, and fun—so come ready to move and groove!