Join our friendly and informative guides near the top of the escalators on the third floor and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.
This four-week workshop will be an opportunity to understand the way design shapes experience. By employing elements of Design Thinking, participants will help develop and co-create a kid space within our upcoming Royal BC Museum exhibition on families.
Join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour just for Kids’ Club members, then join us and other families for Wonder Sunday. This month explore the exhibit arts area to get inspiration to make your own mini diorama.
Join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour just for Kids’ Club members, then join us and other families for Wonder Sunday. This month explore the exhibit arts area to get inspiration to make your own mini diorama.
This month we think big … really big. Explore how mammoth teeth and tusks are both very heavy and very cool. Why did mammoths go extinct and should we try to bring them back from extinction if we could? These are some of the questions for the month.
Explore Mammoths! Giants of the Ice Age to learn more.
Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free 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.
Join Royal BC Museum biologists Darren Copley and Claudia Copley on a birding trip to Cowichan Bay as part of the WildWings Nature & Arts Festival, an annual month-long celebration of the return of the Trumpeter Swans to their overwintering grounds in the Cowichan Valley. We’ll have spotting scopes for up-close viewing. Bring binoculars if you have them.
Meet at the small parking area near the intersection of Cowichan Bay Road and Lochmanetz Road opposite the South Cowichan Lawn Tennis Club. Suitable for ages 10 and up.
Feature Length Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special one-hour tour in the museum’s permanent galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.
Free noon-hour talks on the first Wednesday of the month feature curators and researchers working at the Royal BC Museum.
Curator of Images Don Bourdon brings the perspective of BC photographers into focus with surprising and touching images from the First World War.
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.
Join our friendly and informative guides near the top of the escalators on the third floor and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.
This four-week workshop will be an opportunity to understand the way design shapes experience. By employing elements of Design Thinking, participants will help develop and co-create a kid space within our upcoming Royal BC Museum exhibition on families.
Join our friendly and informative guides near the top of the escalators on the third floor and embark on a special sixty-minute tour in the museum’s modern history galleries. Tours are free with same-day admission or membership.
This four-week workshop will be an opportunity to understand the way design shapes experience. By employing elements of Design Thinking, participants will help develop and co-create a kid space within our upcoming Royal BC Museum exhibition on families.
Feature Length Tour: Join our friendly and informative guides in the lobby and embark on a special one-hour tour in the museum’s permanent galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.
Friends of the BC Archives Lecture
Presented by Glen A. Mofford
Glen will give an illustrated talk based on his new book on the research behind his book and its contents, including some familiar buildings and landmarks. He will describe what took place in them during the days of 5-cent beers, smoky saloons and swinging doors, and touch on Prohibition in BC, specifically in Victoria. Glen will also discuss his current research project on the beer parlours of Greater Victoria.
This month will celebrate the animals of Halloween. Bats, owls and spiders will creep and crawl their way through the museum. Don’t miss our annual Wonder Sunday Halloween on October 30.
This Halloween we are going Hollywood for our annual adult only after hour’s party. Explore the galleries, themed to different horror films, get down to live music and take part in interactives. Featuring a cash bar and nibbles for sale from Truffles Catering.
Dressed to impress?
If you have an outstanding costume you could win big! Join our Costume Contest on the 3rd floor at 11:15 pm.
See for yourself where we usually keep those jars, boxes and bins, and experience the working environment of our talented researchers and staff. Tours are limited to 10 people. Sign up begins one hour prior to the tour start time.
This tour will focus on our vertebrate collection from the small to the mighty.
