The Royal BC Museum, along with The BC Ministry of Health and Timberwest, have collaborated to create the Crossing Cultures and Healing Totem Pole Project. Tsawout Carvers, and brothers, Tom and Perry LaFortune have designed and are carving a pole on site at the Royal BC Museum.

This playlist documents the making of the exhibit Bridging Victoria: Stories from the Archaeological Past, and how the event unfolded on the day (Nov 25, 2017). These projects were carefully crafted by University of Victoria anthropology students to share three local archaeological sites through one-of-a-kind, hands-on and immersive experiences.

The BC Archives holds many documents that relate to the dispossession, internment, and exile of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. Our playlist contains documents recently uncovered by Landscapes of Injustice research assistants and images that have been digitized in previous efforts.

Welcome to the playlist for the Anthropology of Sound, class of 2017. Students from the University of Victoria have been inspired by various artifacts, dioramas, and exhibits and created original soundscapes to accompany them. You can also listen to these soundscapes, and many more from previous classes, on Soundcloud (click here to check it out!)

Created in conjunction with the pop-up exhibit Bridging Victoria: Stories from the Archaeological Past this playlist showcases three never-before-exhibited local archaeology collections. Learn about bottles and ceramics from Chinatown, woodworking from the old Songhees Village (Esquimalt), and military objects from the depths of Esquimalt harbour.

This playlist was created to support workshop participants at the BC Museums Association Conference 2017. The session Interventions for Change explored intervention strategies scalable for museums of any size to be used in school programs or special events. Learn about an intervention with the Punjabi community at the Royal BC Museum here.       

Looking closely at insects from the Royal BC Museum entomology collection, teacher Andrew Gibbs led his students in an art activity inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe. Dive into this playlist for activity details and samples of student work. Andrew Gibbs father, Richard Gibbs worked at the museum as a taxidermist. Richard Gibbs with Woolly mammoth below.

This playlist helps give insight to the anatomy of fish and First Peoples' knowledge and relationship with fish. Examine scientific drawings and First Nations artwork of fish and explore how they reflect different interpretations and perspectives of nature.