Each day we offer visitors new experiences to choose from. The museum collection, current exhibitions & the outdoor museum cultural precinct are all enhanced by a range of uniquely themed tours, public programs and special events.
Check out our What’s On and Public Tours calendars to help you plan your next visit to the Royal BC Museum.
May 17 to September 16, 2012
The blockbuster exhibition of the year! Imagine the thrill of discovering something new about a creature that lived millions of years ago. Since the first dinosaur fossil was identified almost 200 years ago, people have wondered how these fascinating animals lived, moved and behaved.
Dinosaurs explores how paleontologists today use modern technologies, along with new discoveries and ideas, to investigate and reinterpret puzzling dinosaur mysteries, such as what they really looked like, how they moved and the hotly debated theories of why – or even whether – they became extinct.
Our program schedule during Dinosaurs is jam-packed with events, presentations and hands-on activities. Check the micro-site to stay up-to-date!
Wonder Sundays
1 – 3 pm the last Sunday of each Month
Explore your museum in a new way. Bring your family on the last Sunday of each month for activities and explorations inspired by different parts of the museum. Make crafts, join special tours and let your imagination wonder away with you. Wonder Sunday is suitable for children between the ages of 3 and 12 years old and is included with admission or free with membership
January 29, 2012 - Picture Perfect
Did you ever wonder how a pin hole camera is made?
See nature through the eyes of photography. Enjoy “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” and then try making your own camera, develop sun prints and come up with wacky captions for our photos.
February 26, 2012 - First Peoples
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to live in a Pit House?
Join in on a tour of different homes used by First Peoples in British Columbia and then explore them in more detail. Experience the past and present of First Nations people, while learning about daily activities and objects from different communities.
March 25, 2012 - Sea Lions, Cougars and Bears – Oh My!
Did you ever wonder what the most dangerous animal in the museum is?
What makes an animal dangerous, cute or icky? Join the debate and then stretch your imagination and your body in our movement workshop. Tour some of the museums favourite animals and learn more about how they live.
April 29, 2012 - Site and Sound
Did you ever wonder where that sound was coming from?
Explore the museum in a brand new way – with your ears. Listen to the different sounds in the museum and discover how they are made. Make some noise of your own in one of our workshops and participate in musical performances.
May 27, 2012 - Dinosaurs Part 1
Did you ever wonder who was faster – T-Rex or a Stegosaurus?
Learn more about how your favourite dinosaurs moved and what they might have looked like. Help a dinosaur take shape in a mixed-media collage and meet some of the dinosaur’s living relatives.
June 24, 2012 - Dirt, Dogwoods and Dragonflies
Did you ever wonder what’s growing around the museum?
You don’t need a green thumb to take part in our garden event. Tour the Native Plant Garden, do some drawings, plant a seed and discover more about the insects who inhabit our province.
July 29, 2012 - Royalty
Did you ever wonder if you might be related to royalty?
Explore a Royal family tree and make your own. Even if you aren’t related to royalty it doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to meet them. Review the proper etiquette, make a hat and join a parade.
August 26, 2012 - Dinosaurs Part 2
Did you ever wonder why dinosaurs went extinct?
Explore the museum for clues. Interview a scientist. Examine fossils. Decide the verdict. Dinosaurs’ ancient environments and fossils have left us clues about what might have happened to them – come and see what you can discover.
September 30, 2012 - Crafting with Archives
Did you ever wonder how much you could do with just some paper and glue?
It’s time to get crafty with an old fashioned flair. Make paper crafts, play old fashioned parlor games and take a visit to the BC Archives. Get inspiration from the past and see where it takes you.
Beer
BC Bites & Beverages
April 26,2012 7-9pm
Tickets
Members: $35 (login to purchase)
Public: $40 - buy tickets
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From the pioneer brewers of the Gold Rush to the recent renaissance of craft brewing, British Columbia enjoys its own distinct place in the production of the universal beverage – beer. Join Greg Evans to hear about Victoria’s and Vancouver Island’s place in this history – the story of the men and women who shaped our industry, the story of their breweries, their technological expertise, their challenges and the products that gained recognition far beyond our shores.
About Greg Evans
Greg Evans, with over thirty years of experience in the heritage field, has shared his passion for brewing history and his knowledge of beer, with audiences around the Pacific Northwest. In 1991, he completed a Master’s Degree that focused on the history of Vancouver Island’s brewing industry.
In addition to historical presentations, he writes about beer and brewing history and has acted as a consultant on several documentaries. He is an active member of Campaign For Real Ale Victoria, The Brewery History Society of Great Britain and the Over The Rhine Brewery District Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation of Cincinnati.
A Friends of the BC Archives presentation.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
2 – 4 pm
$5 general public
Free for members of the Friends of the BC Archives
The Italians of Store and Johnson Streets were unlike any other Italian immigrantsto British Columbia. They came to Victoria to stay and to make their mark on society, not to work at the meanest jobs and take all their money back to Italy. There was the mule driver, who disappeared intothe Barkerville gold rush, and the marblecutter who became fabulously wealthy. There was the hotelier who sued the federal government and the pugnacious coffee merchant who wasn’t afraid of anybody. And there was the grand ladywhose secrets lie hidden behind the inscriptions on a Ross Bay tombstone.
Mrs. Carlo Bossi
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Site & Sound
Site & Sound A unique festival evening of all things auditory! Musicians, poets and sound artists will inhabit the dioramas and displays of the Royal BC Museum after hours. They have specially crafted sound for this event, providing a unique way of experiencing the Royal BC Museum.
April 28, 2012
7pm start
15$
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Award-winning Victoria flutist Katherine Rogers received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Victoria in 2008 where she studied with Lanny Pollet and performed principal flute under the baton of János Sándor in both the University of Victoria Orchestra and the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra. Katherine recently completed her Master of Music degree at the University of British Columbia in 2010 under the direction of Lorna McGhee (former co-principal with the BBC Symphony Orchestra). In July 2010 Katherine followed the UBC Opera Ensemble to the Czech Republic. Katherine is currently flutist with Victoria’s Palm Court Orchestra, enjoys subbing for the Victoria Symphony, and takes great joy in sharing her love for music with her students. |
Dave Morris and Missie Peters |
SpeakEasy is the improvised poetry duo of Dave Morris and Missie Peters. Together they have performed at festivals such as the Belfry’s Spark Festival, the Victoria Fringe Festival and the Berlin International Improv Festival.Dave Morris is an improviser, storyteller and educator from Victoria B.C. He is the director of Paper Street Theatre, the regional director for the Canadian Improv Games and in 2011 won Pick of the Fringe for best comedy performer.Missie Peters is an M-Award winning poet and improviser from Victoria B.C. She is a two-time Victoria Slam Champion, the former Vic Slam Master and the current artistic director of Not Your Grandma’s Poetry Productions. |
Paul Walde |
Paul Walde is an intermedia artist, musician, and curator. Walde’s eclectic body of work suggests unexpected interconnections between landscape, identity, and technology and includes painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation and audio. Recently his work was seen at the Electric Eclectics Festival of Experimental Music and Sound Art in Meaford, Ontario (2010), at Malaspina Printmakers Gallery in conjunction with VIVO’s Signal + Noise festival in Vancouver (2010), and at the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound in Kitchener, Ontario (2011). |
Janet Rogers |
Janet Rogers is a west coast Mohawk living on the traditional lands of the Songhees and Esquimalt nations. Janet is a spoken word poet, print poet, recording poet and works in video poetry and performance poetry.Janet is a radio host on Native Waves Radio CFUV 101.9fm and Tribal Clefs CBC radio British Columbia. Janet is Victoria’s current Poet Laureate |
Tina Pearson |
Tina M Pearson is a sound artist whose interest in sonic phenomena, perception and modes of human interaction has led to roles in art, education and community development. Many of her projects look at the boundaries between languages, disciplines and cultures, and between creators, performers and audiences. Tina was editor of the journal Musicworks, an instructor at OCAD University and recently co-chaired the New Music Forum “Connecting Cultures, Practices and Geographies” in Vancouver. Tina composes and performs in acoustic, electronic and telematic settings with conventional, found and invented instruments. Her music has been commissioned for dance, video, radio and spoken word performances in Europe and North America. She performs with the global collective Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and the Victoria group LaSaM. |
Garrett Tompson and Shanti Bremer |
The Garrett and Shanti Bluegrass Duo are a pair of young talented bluegrass pickers from Victoria B.C. Both pickers grew up steeped in the hard driving bluegrass sounds of great players like J.D. Crowe and Tony Rice and it shows in their playing and singing. Shanti Bremer multi instrumentalist, singer and music teacher has played in many Victoria Bluegrass bands over the years and is the banjo player from the Victoria band “The Sweet Lowdown”. Shanti plays Scruggs style banjo in this collaboration along with lead and harmony vocals. Garrett Tompson has been playing guitar and singing for 9 years. He started out playing everything from Neil Young to Eric Clapton but once he got into bluegrass singing and guitar flat pickin that was it, he was hooked. Garrett plays lead and rhythm guitar along with vocals in this collaboration. Together Shanti and Garrett deliver an unmistakable bluegrass sound that is sure to please. |
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The Victoria Phonographers Union |
Formed in 2010, the Victoria Phonographers Union grew out of a workshop and performance with the Seattle Phonographers Union. Exploring the ways in which the human ear experiences our sonic landscapes, the VPU juxtaposes familiar, novel, and foreign sounds in a listening environment that detaches context from the sound source. The intent is to offer an investigation into how we individually perceive, analyze, and connect with sound and the thoughts and sensations that these sounds evoke in their raw, unprocessed state.Members of the VPU include: Michael Bennyworth, Hunter Boucher, Caleb Cobell, Christine Comrie, Kristy Farkas, Jessica Karuhanga, Eugene Lee, Christopher Reiche |
| The Victoria Gum Sing Musical Society | The Victoria Gum Sing Musical Society is a non profit organization operated under the society’s act and is dependent on the generous donation and contributions by its membership and community organizations. This society was formed by Mr. Leung Kwong Yip and Mr. Stan Tong in 1980 with the intention that members of the Chinese community could enjoy and promote the Chinese musical culture. |
Peter Morin  |
Peter Morin, of the Tahltan Nation of northern British Columbia, is a Victoria-based performance artist. His ideas about museums and their transformation through indigenous ways of knowing began in his cousin’s cabin, where visits with friends, relatives, and elders offered him a gradual understanding of Tahltan history and means of sharing it with one another. Peter Morin has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and live events including Team Diversity Bannock and the World’s Largest Bannock attempt, 7 Suits for 7 Days of Colonialism, and A return to the place where God outstretched his hand (2007); performative works at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; 12 Making Objects, 12 Indigenous Interventions (2009) at Open Space, Victoria and Peter Morin’s Museum (2011) at Satellite Gallery, Vancouver. In 2010 the artist was awarded the British Columbia Creative Achievement Award for First Nations’ Art. Morin is currently serving as the curator in residence at Open Space Artist Run Centre in Victoria BC. |
Event Supported by:
31 Mar – 1 Apr 2012
Free with admission or membership
Can you identify the 8 things which are out-of-place in this 19th Century kitchen?
