Join us for a celebration of local biodiversity with an evening presentation by Dr. Richard Hebda—author, professor and award winning Royal BC Museum curator of Botany and Earth History.
Dr. Hebda will highlight the region’s exceptional “living landscape” and discuss his research in the area, recent discoveries and future opportunities for collaboration and stewardship.
Free noon-hour talks on the first Wednesday of the month feature curators and researchers working at the Royal BC Museum.
Collections Manager Heidi Gartner shares the revelations of her summer field research.
Join us for a celebration of local biodiversity with an evening presentation by Dr. Richard Hebda—author, professor and award winning Royal BC Museum curator of Botany and Earth History.
Dr. Hebda will highlight the region’s exceptional “living landscape” and discuss his research in the area, recent discoveries and future opportunities for collaboration and stewardship.
After the presentation, we welcome you to chat with Dr. Hebda, mingle with fellow outdoor enthusiasts, and enjoy some refreshments.
Presented in association with the Toad River Area Club.
Please join us in celebrating the magnificent biodiversity of Kaska 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.
Presented in association with the Daylu Dena.
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.
Join Royal BC Museum biologists Claudia Copley, Darren Copley and Robb Bennett on a search for some of Victoria's local spiders. We'll demonstrate spider collecting techniques, as well as some general insect collecting methodology. There will be an assortment of live demonstration spiders for show and tell, so please bring along your curiosity. This program will also help to dispel the many myths there are about spiders, and other closely related arachnids.
Our annual museum sleepover is back, in a big way.
Come spend the night with us as we travel back in time with the mammoths. Explore Mammoths! Giants of the Ice Age without the crowds, go on a midnight behind-the-scenes tour and wake up with morning yoga. Activities, games, tours and food will make this your most memorable museum visit ever.
Watch for another sleepless night in June when we host a Night at the Museum for our upcoming Family: Bonds and Belonging exhibition.
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.
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.
To be a scientist one must have a curious and open mind—which is perfect for kids. Join us throughout the museum at stations set up to explore scientific discovery through a kid’s eye, created in partnership with Let’s Talk Science.
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.
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 permanent galleries. Tours are included with same-day admission or membership.
Curator of Archaeology Grant Keddie
New discoveries and new research are beginning to tell a different story about the nature of the Ice Age and its inhabitants in British Columbia. Our mammoth fossils and those of other large mammals have only begun to reveal their secrets.
Explore Mammoths! Giants of the Ice Age to learn more.
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.
See for yourself where we usually keep those jars, boxes and bins and experience the working environment of our talented researchers and staff. This tour will focus on our exhibit arts department and reveal how they create our fabulous museum experiences.Tours are limited to 10 people. Sign up begins 1 hour prior to the tour start time.
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.
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.
Mingle with museum staff and community members stationed around the museum galleries. Both natural and human history science will be explored.
