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Family Day at MOV: Local Storytellers
We hope you enjoyed joining us on Family Day for some captivating programming by talented local storytellers. 📖✨
Some highlights of the day:
🎭 In the morning, we learned about the art of puppetry from the incredible Ventriloquist Kellie Haines in the Puppets Tell Stories Workshop.
🌳 Engaging stories featured in Chief Ian Campbell’s “Temíxw” triptych were shared in the afternoon.
✨ Master Ventriloquist Don Bryan and his associate Mr. Noseworthy gave a brief introduction on the craft and culture of his unique artform, and shared their stories in the evening show. With special guests Ventriloquist Kellie Haines and Magrau the Bird! 🦜
We look forward to seeing you at Family Day again next year!
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Pay What You Can Sunday at MOV
Sunday, March 5, 2023 | 10:00am - 5:00pm
Visit MOV on the first Sunday of each month, and pay what you can for admission.
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The Tobias Wong Project: Artist Tour with Amelia Bauer and Pablo Griff
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm
A walk-through of the exhibition All We Want is More: The Tobias Wong Project with two close friends and collaborators of Tobias Wong. A special opportunity to see Amelia Bauer (Santa Fe, California) and Pablo Griff (Vancouver, BC) in conversation in the gallery space, presenting the work of Tobias Wong from the perspectives and insights of artists who worked with him.
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A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia
On view until April 2, 2023
Grab a seat while you can! 📢 Only one month left to catch A Seat at the Table at MOV.
This feature exhibition explores historical and contemporary stories of Chinese Canadians in BC, and their struggles for belonging. It looks at food and restaurant culture as an entry point to feature stories that reveal the great diversity of immigration experience, and of communities immigrants develop. Last chance to view is April 2, 2023.
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Spirit Journeys: Walking with Resilience, Wellbeing and Respect
On view until late April 2023
This micro-exhibition, Spirit Journeys: Walking with Resilience, Wellbeing and Respect, provides an opportunity for the YVR Art Foundation (YVRAF) 2021 Emerging and Mid-Career Artist Scholarship recipients to exhibit their artworks. Through the YVR Art Foundation Scholarship Program these artists continued their studies or worked with mentors to expand their personal knowledge of Indigenous art and design. The results are breathtaking and inspiring. MOV is honored to showcase the work of these ten talented artists, and we raise our hands in respect and appreciation for those who have inspired and taught them.
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Sydney Pickering
I am from the Lil’wat Nation and currently live in Vancouver, BC. For my Emerging Artist Scholarship, I continued my ongoing mentorship with Mara Cur to practice hide tanning and created a short film titled Distance with an accompanying hide to be projected on.
Distance is about reflecting on the past to give the possibility to move forward in the future. It is thinking through the histories of displacement forced upon First Nations within the Vancouver area, histories that are directly tied to my family and continue to affect us today. Distance is not only an interpretation of physical distance but also distance in time and memory. The memories of these moments live within the land, our bodies and spirit. The water, the land and its beings are witnesses to these histories and their bodies are affected just as much as ours from these colonial actions. Distance is a personal interpretation of the past, an imagining and sentiment to what it must have felt to have to live through these forcible acts of genocide and to hold and acknowledge these people I hold dear and to heal.
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All We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project
On view until July 2023
Museum of Vancouver is proud to present the exhibition All We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project! In the early 2000s, Tobias Wong took the design world by storm. Born and raised in Vancouver, Wong was a brilliant and prolific artist whose career was all too short. Defying easy categorization, his work was wide ranging, pushing and dissolving disciplinary boundaries between conceptual art, performance and product design.
This exhibition is an invitation to revisit Wong’s artistic contribution with fresh eyes. Recent social, environmental and technological events have transformed the way we see the world and inevitably the way we see Tobias Wong’s work.
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Dressed for History: Why Costume Collections Matter
Women's Fashion 1750 - 2000
The Museum of Vancouver has invited four remarkable local collectors, Ivan Sayers, Claus Jahnke, Melanie Talkington and the members of the B.C. Society of the Museum of the Original Costume (SMOC) to share their deep knowledge of costume history by showcasing pieces from their collections.
Dressed for History: Why Costume Collections Matter makes the case that fashion and costumes are significant and enduring expressions of personal identity and of political and social change. This exhibition confirms Vancouver as home to world-class costume interpreters, collectors and historians.
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Foncie’s Corner
Where stories & time intersect
"My father and mother (Ian and Bella MacLean) spent most of my childhood in logging camps in the Queen Charlotte Islands. On special trips to Vancouver it was a chance to dress up, and thanks to Foncie, we have these special memories."
Foncie's Corner is an evolving photo exhibition and archive of photos taken by Foncie Pulice. Explore the current collection and add to it by submitting your photos. We encourage you to include heart-felt personal stories of life, death, trauma and joy, that when experienced together tell a larger historic story of life in British Columbia from the 1930s to the end of the 70s.
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A Seat at the Table - Chinese Immigration and British Columbia
Fairchild TV
Watch this interview with MOV's Director of Collections & Exhibitions and Curator of Contemporary Culture, Viviane Gosselin, speaking about the exhibition A Seat at the Table at MOV.
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Host your special day at MOV!
The Museum of Vancouver is an ideal venue for intimate wedding receptions and private outdoor wedding ceremonies. Situated within Vanier Park, our indoor and outdoor venue spaces have unobstructed views of Vanier Park, the city’s West End, English Bay and the North Shore Mountains. All rooms allow floorplan and décor flexibility to assist in planning the wedding of your dreams!
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Ancient Worlds
Uncover the science of archaeology by investigating artefacts from the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, China, Greece, and Rome. Work in teams to do a simulated field dig, then research and analyze artefacts in a lab to formulate and test your hypothesis. Learn about several prominent Northwest Coast archaeological sites. Through traditional First Nations belongings and ways of knowing, gain a deeper understanding of the role and limitations of archeology.
Want to learn more about Ancient Egypt? Book our exclusive online school program Mummification in Ancient Egypt! Learn more about the process and the significance of mummification in Ancient Egypt. Use your critical thinking skills to gain a deeper understanding of contemporary issues surrounding museum collections and practices.
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Museum of Vancouver is open from Sunday-Wednesday 10:00am - 5:00pm and Thursday-Saturday 10:00am - 8:00pm.
- Please note that ticket sales end 45 minutes before closing.
- Visit MOV on the first Sunday of each month and pay what you can for admission.
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We are located in at 1100 Chestnut Street in beautiful Vanier Park in the neighborhood of Kitsilano in Vancouver.
- Join us on every last Sunday of the month for a “relaxed” or low sensory day at MOV. Learn more.
- The Museum is wheelchair, stroller and scooter accessible, including washrooms, ramps and elevators, and wide entrances and exits.
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When booked in advance, groups of 10 people or more are eligible for a discounted rate. Learn more.
- Admission is free for the people who self-identify as Indigenous.
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Prophecy Fog
March 9 - 18, 2023
From award-winning Indigenous artist Jani Lauzon, Prophecy Fog takes you on a beautiful and intimate journey about relationships with land, family and sacred spaces. The journey begins in the Mojave Desert in search of Giant Rock, armed with the question: can a site still be sacred if it has been desecrated?
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We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. | | |
604-736-4431
1100 Chestnut Street
Vancouver, BC
V6J 3J9
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