Museum of Anthropology at UBC
- Location
- Vancouver, Canada
- Year
- 1947
- Typology
- Museum
- Materials
- Concrete
- Context
- Brutalism, Modernism
- Map
- Open location
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada displays world arts and cultures, in particular works by First Nations of the Pacific Northwest. As well as being a major tourist destination, MOA is a research and teaching museum, where UBC courses in art, anthropology, archaeology, conservation, and museum studies are given. MOA houses close to 50,000 ethnographic objects, as well as 535,000 archaeological objects in its building alone.
