Museum of Vancouver has launched its annual fundraising campaign for 2022 and is seeking your support to continue to deliver its exhibitions, education, and public programming. The MOV stewards a collection of over 80,000 artefacts, and belongings on behalf of the City of Vancouver.

As a gathering space that fosters connection, learning, and new experiences of Vancouver’s diverse communities and histories, the MOV depends on the support of its sponsors, donors, and funders to sustain its work and contribution to the community. Your tax-deductible donation will support the museums award-winning exhibitions, education, and public programs delivered annually to over 100,000 visitors.

MOV Gift Shop

Get some holiday shopping finished and visit our gift shop at MOV! 🛍️⁠

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Visit our retail space, and browse a variety of local art, giftware, books, toys, houseware, apparel and stationery. MOV members receive a 10% discount.⁠

Our shop hours are:

Sunday - Wednesday 10:30am - 4:00pm

Thursday - Saturday 10:30am - 7:00pm⁠

Finding Forgiveness

Friday, January 6, 2023

This Winter, our friends at the Arts Club Theatre Company are producing a stage adaptation of Mark Sakamoto’s Forgiveness. 2022 marks the 80th year since Japanese Canadian Internment in BC. In this panel discussion, we ask: what can stories from the stage teach us about the ongoing legacies of this history?

This program will feature a special preview of the play followed by a moderated panel. The panel will feature: Forgiveness playwright Hiro Kanagawa; playwright and museum educator Carolyn Nakagawa; community elder and educator Vivian Rygnestad; and community elder, writer, curator, and activist Grace Eiko Thomson.

This program is produced in collaboration with the Arts Club Theatre Company, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre and UBC Library and sponsored by UBC Community Engagement.

How to Dye with Fungi and Lichens with Rita Kompst and Zoe McDonell

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Welcome to the world of traditional natural dyeing! This hands-on workshop will be taught by a traditional Musqueam Coast Salish artist as well as an ecologist as they cover the many facets of our natural world through fibre. They will cover how to identify, process and dye with a wide range of different mushrooms and lichens from our forests. Your dye colour pallet will grow exponentially as we explore and celebrate the rich networks under our feet.

All We Want Is More: The Tobias Wong Project 

Now on view!

Museum of Vancouver is happy to present its newest 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.

Watch exhibition reel here

That Which Sustains Us

On view!

That Which Sustains Us is a long-term exhibition that explores the convergence of different knowledge traditions in the Vancouver area through an examination of people’s interactions with forests and their natural environment. It does so by showcasing traditional ecological knowledge related to forests; consequences of the deforestation and urbanization of Vancouver; and the possibility of returning to sustainable land use practices in the Greater Vancouver area.

Learn more about the consequences of the deforestation and

urbanization of Vancouver here...

Recruiting Old-Growth Forest is an Act of Faith

Asparagus Magazine

Asparagus Magazine tells the large and small stories of how we can live sustainably, from an environmental, social, and cultural perspective. Read this recent article about how Indigenous communities on Vancouver Island are healing forests for the future. This month, Asparagus is offering a free giveaway, scroll down to "Did You Know" section to learn more about this great offer.

Stories That Sustain Us - A Seat at the Table: Chinese Canadian Immigration and British Columbia

CAMOC - pages 27-31



A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia project (SAT) consists of two concurrent, multi-sited, multilingual and multimedia exhibitions. The project looks at the Chinese diaspora in British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province, as a story that is local and global, historical and contemporary. Using food and restaurant culture as an entry point, the exhibitions feature stories that point to the great diversity of immigrant experiences and of the communities that immigrants develop.

Arts Rational - Interview with Viviane Gosselin

Vancouver Co-op Radio – CFRO 100.5 FM

Gerry Kowalenko from Vancouver Co-op Radio interviews MOV's Director of Collections & Exhibitions, Curator of Contemporary Culture Viviane Gosselin.

Tobias Wong: Vancouver - born artist and designer mocked excess on an international stage

Galleries West



Tobias Wong liked to call himself a paraconceptualist. A unique, puckish figure who relentlessly questioned authorship and originality, he engaged in free-range collaborations that both critiqued and embraced consumerism. With a prankster’s elan, he also collapsed boundaries between art and design, straddling those disciplines with clever and provocative works.

Virtual Food Drive

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Museum of Vancouver is hosting a Virtual Food Drive in support of the Greater Vancouver Food Bank! We are super excited about the work the Food Bank is doing; providing healthy food to those in need. Your donation will support children, individuals who have lost their jobs, single families, seniors, and anyone who just needs a little bit of help.

Our partners at Asparagus (2022's BC Magazine of the Year) are offering a free copy of their latest issue to MOV newsletter subscribers. All you have to do to claim it is sign up for their email newsletter, and answer "MOV" to the question "Who suggested that you sign up?" (Someone on their team will follow up to get your mailing address.) 

If you sign up by December 15, you'll also be entered in a giveaway draw. Two winners will each receive: an Asparagus subscription for themselves or a friend, a pair of Museum of Vancouver tickets, two books from Theytus Books, and some sweet sustainable Asparagus swag.

Call for Submissions

Submission Deadline Extended:

Friday, December 30, 2022

The Museum of Vancouver, in collaboration with Propellor Studio, invites local designers and makers to submit design concepts for the upcoming Reclaim + Repair: The Mahogany Project exhibition - opening in July 2023 at MOV.

This exhibition will be an opportunity to celebrate the work of local designers, deepen connections between members of the design community and institutions like MOV, and amplify conversations around sustainability which are increasingly integral to the practice of design.

Know Before You Go!

• Museum of Vancouver is open from Sunday-Wednesday 10:00am - 5:00pm and Thursday-Saturday 10:00am - 8:00pm. Please note our holiday hours online here.

• Visit MOV on the first Sunday of each month and pay what you can for admission.

• We are located in at 1100 Chestnut Street in beautiful Vanier Park in the neighborhood of Kitsilano in Vancouver.

• The Museum is wheelchair, stroller and scooter accessible, including washrooms, ramps and elevators, and wide entrances and exits.

• There are a mix of single-stalled and multi-stalled bathrooms with baby changing facilities located in the lower lobby which can be accessed by elevator or stairs.

• When booked in advance, groups of 10 people or more are eligible for a discounted rate. Learn more here.

• The Museum is easily accessible by Mobi Bike Share, Translink (#2 or #32 bus), and False Creek Ferries. Car parking is available at the parking lot run by EasyPark. Please remember to pay for parking before entering the building. Street parking is also available. Learn more here.

• Admission is free for the people who self-identify as Indigenous.

YVR Art Foundation's Call for Applications for the 2023 Scholarship Awards are NOW OPEN!

Apply by Friday, January 27, 2023

YVRAF offers scholarship awards of $5000 each for Emerging (age 17-29) and Mid-Career (age 30+) BC and Yukon Indigenous artists. Scholarships are awarded on an annual basis to Emerging and Mid-Career Artists who create visual art that reflects BC or Yukon Indigenous culture and who wish to further their artistic career by expanding their work or practice into a new area. Scholarship awards may go towards studying or working with a Master Artist/Mentor, attending a school of art, or creating an art project of cultural significance for the artist’s community. Visual Art can include (but is not limited to) drawing, painting, digital art + design, illustration, carving, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, animation, photography, video and film.

We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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