Museum of Anthropology at UBC

Museum of Anthropology (MOA), University of British Columbia

A forest of totem poles under a soaring glass hall

⚠ Closed Mon 15 Oct–15 May

Hours

Daily 10am–5pm, Thursdays to 9pm; closed Mondays 15 Oct–15 May; closed 25 Dec (official site)

Tickets

Adult CA$26, senior (65+) and student CA$23, youth (6–18) CA$13, under-6 free; half price Thursdays after 5pm (official site)

Address

6393 NW Marine Drive, on the bluff at the northwest corner of the UBC campus

In the Great Hall, behind glass walls nearly 15 metres high, Northwest Coast First Nations totem poles stand like a forest, with sea and mountains beyond the glass to suggest the villages they came from. Bill Reid's yellow-cedar carving 'The Raven and the First Men', humans crawling out of a clamshell, has a round room to itself. In the visible storage galleries, tens of thousands of objects from around the world sit in glass-topped drawers you can pull open.