Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.
Home Learners Workshop Series
This four-week workshop will explore one of the key elements of identity: language. What is your mother tongue, and what does that mean? How is language developed? How does it shape the way you see the world? What are the languages heard and spoken inBritish Columbia?
Drawing on content from the Our Living Languages exhibition and co-facilitated by a novice Hul’q’umi’num’ speaker, we will explore these questions and more.
Early popular enthusiasm for BC history was driven largely by mass automobile ownership and modern highways, as cultural and environmental historian Ben Bradley explains in this illustrated talk.New roads such as the Cariboo Highway seemed to beckon as paths into the province’s past, with monuments, markers, and museums that evoked an atmosphere of yesteryear.
As our Family: Bonds and Belonging exhibition continues, we’ll discover the various types of families, such as those formed by blood and those formed by choice. Come hang out in the museum’s pillow fort, create your very own shadow puppet story and learn a thing or two about genetics!
As our Family: Bonds and Belonging exhibition continues, we’ll discover the various types of families, such as those formed by blood and those formed by choice. Come hang out in the museum’s pillow fort, create your very own shadow puppet story and learn a thing or two about genetics!
Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.
You’ve spent time researching your family history and developing your family tree, but you’re not sure what to do with that information. Meet genealogists and learn about the different ways they have shared their research with family members and the public, through social media, self-published accounts and more. This workshop is presented in partnership with the Greater Victoria Public Library.
Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.
Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.
Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.
Join our friendly and informative guides and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.
Home Learners Workshop Series
This four-week workshop will explore one of the key elements of identity: language. What is your mother tongue, and what does that mean? How is language developed? How does it shape the way you see the world? What are the languages heard and spoken inBritish Columbia?
Drawing on content from the Our Living Languages exhibition and co-facilitated by a novice Hul’q’umi’num’ speaker, we will explore these questions and more.
As our Family: Bonds and Belonging exhibition continues, we’ll discover the various types of families, such as those formed by blood and those formed by choice. Come hang out in the museum’s pillow fort, create your very own shadow puppet story and learn a thing or two about genetics!
Snapshot Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special thirty-minute tour in the museum’s Gold Rush gallery. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.
Feature Length Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special one-hour tour in the museum’s natural history galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.
Feature Length Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special one-hour tour in the museum’s natural history galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.
Feature Length Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special one-hour tour of the museum’s natural history and becoming BC galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.
As the person responsible for much of the promotion and success of The Marathon of Hope in 1980, Bill Vigars was many things to Terry Fox. In his role as Director of Public Relations and Fundraising for the Canadian Cancer Society’s Ontario Division, Bill acted as Terry’s public relations organizer, his friend and his confidante. The developed a deep friendship that would dramatically change both men’s lives forever in a short period of time.
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Helmcken House
Helmcken House was built by Dr. John Sebastian Helmcken, a surgeon with the Hudson’s Bay Company. It is one of the oldest houses in British Columbia still on its original site. Dr. Helmcken set up house in Victoria when he married the daughter of Governor James Douglas in 1852. He went on to become a statesman and helped negotiate the entry of British Columbia into Canada, as a province. The good doctor’s original 19th century medical kit is among the interesting items on display.
St. Ann's Schoolhouse
The Holodomor National Awareness Tour is a project to raise awareness of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine carried out in 1932-33 by the Soviet Union led by Joseph Stalin, which resulted in the deaths of millions of Ukrainians.
