Join students from Camosun College’s Anthropology of Death course for a pop exhibit. Inspired by the Angkor Wat: The Lost Empire of Cambodia and the Cambodian festival of Pchum Ben, students have researched different cultural practices of why and how the living continue to interact with the dead. To preform your own meritous act, please consider bringing a non-perishable food donation for the Camosun College Student Society Food Bank.

Image credit Khmer Times/ Chor Sokunthea

Colourful Business proves that business does not have to be boring. The second annual Colourful Business Expo displays the innovation and vitality of Victoria's Indigenous, Black, and immigrant entrepreneurs. Browse displays and listen to live music throughout the afternoon. 

Colourful Business is a project of the Kulea Culture Society, Royal BC Museum, Indigenous Prosperity Centre, BC Black History Awareness Society, REP Here in Canada, Victoria Foundation, Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce, the City of Victoria, and the Government of Canada.

Join us for a 30-minute guided tour and uncover some of the highlights and hidden gems of the Natural History Gallery. 

Natural History tours meet at the top of the escalator on the second floor. 

Happy Halloween! 

Join us for this FREE livestream.

Some kinds of arthropods have wings and antennae. The quantity and types of these body parts, and how they are arranged, tell you if an animal is an insect, spider, millipede, or centipede. There are reptiles that also can fly, but they don’t have wings. How many reptiles do you know from British Columbia?

Join curator of vertebrate zoology Dr. Gavin Hanke and curator of entomology, Dr. Joel Gibson for this live program. You'll leave with a new appreciation for animals that creep, crawl, and slither! 

Educators and students in grades kindergarten to 2!

Join us for this FREE livestream.

Some kinds of arthropods have wings and antennae. The quantity and types of these body parts, and how they are arranged, tell you if an animal is an insect, spider, millipede or centipede. There are also reptiles that can fly, but they don’t have wings. How many reptiles do you know from British Columbia? Join curator of vertebrate zoology, Dr. Gavin Hanke, and curator of entomology, Dr. Joel Gibson, as they lead you through this program about animals that creep, crawl and slither.

This event has been Cancelled.

Beatrix Potter was a woman of many interests and ambitions. However, we often come to know only one of these, her children’s books. Renowned for her fabulous Peter Rabbit storybook illustrations at the turn of the Century, Potter was also involved in the study of fungi (mycology) which inspired her land conservancy efforts in England’s Lake District later in life.

On now at Vernon Museum and Archives

As we enter the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032), to draw global attention to the critical situation of many Indigenous languages and to mobilize stakeholders and resources for their preservation, revitalization and promotion, we invite you to learn more about the state of Indigenous languages in BC in this ground-breaking interactive exhibition.

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 of paintings using one sketch. By placing tracing paper over the sketch, the artist uses a fountain pen to ink over a small section of the sketch and then transfers the ink onto a second sheet by lightly pressing or “blotting” the two papers together.

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 presentations in the Community Room from local Mycologists and Biologists will occur throughout the day. Topics include cultivations, identification and foraging tips and tricks. 

Presentation Schedule (presentations are 30 minutes)  

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 handbook, Mushrooms of British Columbia.

This is not a harvesting expedition, but a fun, informal exploration of fungi!

Space is limited.

Be prepared for rain and uneven terrain.

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.

See schedule and get tickets

Watch the trailer here.
 

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.

Guest speaker: Dr. Imogene Lim

Photo courtesy of Dr. Imogene Lim.

Join author Jennifer Bonnell and panelists Dr. India Young, Rod Silver and Briony Penn for a lively discussion about Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia.

The book explores the history of wildlife conservation in BC, from pre-contact Indigenous stewardship to the present. It documents the effects of rising scientific understanding and public appreciation for the province’s fish and wildlife and the gradual reclamation of land and management authority by First Nations.

Join author Jennifer Bonnell and contributors to Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia at a reception hosted in the Natural History gallery followed by a panel discussion in Newcombe Conference Hall.

The book explores the history of wildlife conservation in BC, from pre-contact Indigenous stewardship to the present. It documents the effects of rising scientific understanding and public appreciation for the province’s fish and wildlife and the gradual reclamation of land and management authority by First Nations.

Come take a guided walk through the museum's native plant garden! Discover your plant neighbours and learn some Indigenous plant uses that have been in practice for thousands of years. Meet at the bottom of the escalators in the main lobby, look for the Tour sign.

Note: This tour has stairs in parts with a total of 57 steps, mostly downhill. Please keep this in mind while joining the tour. There are also benches along the route for rest stops.

Join Dr. Victoria Arbour, curator of paleontology at the Royal BC Museum, for a peek into what she and her team discovered this past summer in northern BC. This is a FREE livestream with our friends at Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants.

Program sign up here or watch live on Youtube.

Sensory-sensitive screening of Great Bear Rainforest intended for guests who find the immersive IMAX® experience prohibitive. Low lighting will remain on, volume will be lowered, doors will be left open and movement and discussion during the film will not be restricted. This film is in 2D, no special glasses required. Theatre capacity will be reduced to 75 seats.

Join us at IMAX® Victoria at the Royal BC Museum on Friday, September 29 for a special screening of Bones of Crows, written and directed by Marie Clements. 

A story spanning over 100 years, Bones of Crows is a feature film told through the eyes of Cree musical prodigy Aline Spears as she and her siblings are removed from their family home and forced into Canada's Residential School system and into a struggle for survival. Bones of Crows is Aline's journey from child to matriarch, a moving multi-generational epic of resilience, survival, and the pursuit of justice.

Come take a guided walk through the museum's native plant garden! Discover your plant neighbours and learn some Indigenous plant uses that have been in practice for thousands of years. Meet at the bottom of the escalators in the main lobby, look for the Tour sign.

Note: This tour has stairs in parts with a total of 57 steps, mostly downhill. Please keep this in mind while joining the tour. There are also benches along the route for rest stops.