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Use for: Village life

• April 4, 2002 - March 31, 2003 (Visible Storage)
• Student exhibition: Each year students in Anthropology 432 (Anthropology of Public Representation) create exhibits as part of their coursework. On April 4, 2002, the students opened their exhibition Viewpoints in the Visible Storage area. The exhibit is based on the fact that visitors experience Visible Storage from many different points of view that may be related to factors such as their age, gender, or culture.

• February 17, 1996 - December, 1997
• In these dramatic sculptures, Connie Sterritt (Nuu-chah-nulth/Gitksan) applies modern technology to traditional Northwest Coast shapes to produce a contemporary look at formlines and design. For Sterritt, the life-size Bear, Raven and Wolf sculptures represent “a longhouse, in a time when man and animal were of equal status, and ‘home’ was as beautiful as its surroundings.”

Use for: YVR

• September 15 - December 31, 1999
• This remarkable work was made by participants in the Traditional Parenting Skills Program of the Indian Homemakers’ Association of B.C. It is a visual symbol of the assistance and support offered by the Association over its thirty years of service to First Nations families.

Use for: Ulhk'acho

Use for: Welcoming Stone T'xwelatse

• March 1 to May 15, 2008
• T’xwelátse, ancestor of the Stó:lō-Ts’elxwéyeqw people, was born in the distant past when things were not quite right. He was turned to granite many years ago as punishment for mistreating his wife, who was charged thereafter with his care. For generations, the women of the family looked after their stone ancestor, who carried within him lessons about how to live and act properly. In 1892, Stone T’xwelátse was taken from his homeland and eventually acquired as an object of study by the Burke Museum of Natural and Cultural History in Seattle. In October 2006, after 114 years of separation from his extended family, Stone T’xwelátse was repatriated and journeyed home again. According to his namesake, Herb Joe, a former Chief of the Tzeachten First Nation, "he will continue to do the job he set out to do – to teach." Thanks to Herb Joe and his family, and the Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre, T’xwelátse will reside at MOA from March 1 through mid-May, where he will form the basis of a high school program on repatriation, and continue to share his message that “we need to learn to live together in a good way.”

• January 8 - March 3, 2013
• This exhibition featured the display of Alan Michelson’s panoramic video installation of the two banks of the Grand River, which divides the Six Nations Reserve from non-Native townships in Ontario. TwoRow II was generously loaned by the National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa. Curator: Karen Duffek.
• Full title: TwoRow II - A four-channel video installation with sound, by Alan Michelson (2005)

• Through August 31, 2001 (corridor)
• Two cases, each highlighting a different aspect of Northwest Coast art. One features several turn-of-the-century paddles; another offers selections from a remarkable recent bequest of Northwest materials collected by Tom and Frances Richardson.

• January 17 - March 4, 1984 (Gallery 9)

• November 2, 2007 – June 7, 2008
• From February to June 2008, MOA is hosting Treasures of the Tsimshian from the Dundas Collection, a major exhibition of 48 artifacts collected by the Rev. Robert J. Dundas at Metlakatla, BC, in 1863. MOA is the last stop on the exhibition’s cross- country tour, which began in April 2006 in Tsimshian territory, where these important cultural pieces originated, and where they had not been seen for more than a century. Following their display at MOA in 2008, the objects will be returned to their present owners, who purchased the majority of them at auction in October 2006.
• Organized by the Royal BC Museum and co-presented at MOA by Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad

• September 25 - December 8, 1991
• This exhibition introduces the complexity of the issues connected with trapping: the value of traditional knowledge and a mixed economy, the definitions of “humane” and “conservation,” and the use of renewable resources. The exhibition Trapline Lifeline was organized by the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, N.W.T.