Modernization
Learn more about government’s intention to modernize the museum to protect our historic holdings and provide better access to our collections.
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 Entomology collection and the wonderful world of insects.
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 Entomology collection and the wonderful world of insects.
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.
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.
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 alive and dead insects of the collections.
Members only event. To learn more about membership and exclusive benefits visit our membership page.
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.
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 alive and dead insects of the collections.
Members-only event. To learn more about membership and exclusive benefits visit our membership page.
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.
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.
DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WE ARE UNABLE TO Enjoy home movies from the BC Archives playing throughout the day in the Majestic Theatre in Old Town.
Please watch this website for reschedule information.
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.
This conference provides an opportunity for women and girls to come together in arts-based workshops, community and gallery tours and panel discussions with women leaders, artists, educators, activists and politicians.
Locations: St. Ann’s Academy, Royal BC Museum and Mungo Martin House.
Royal BC Museum members receive a 10% reduction on their conference registration. To receive this benefit or to attend the conference, please email info@friendsofstannsacademy.com
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.
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.
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.
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 permanent galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.
Please join us in Prophet River First Nation, celebrating the magnifient biodiversity of Treaty 8 and Dene Tsaa K’Nai traditional territories with a presentation by Dr. Richard Hebda—author, professor and award-winning Royal BC Museum curator of Botany and Earth History.
Dr. Hebda will highlight the territory’s exceptional “living landscape” and discuss his research in the area, recent discoveries and future opportunities for collaboration. After the presentation, there will be a community dinner and opportunity to visit.