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This series consists of records created, received, and/or used by individuals, groups or committees responsible for public programming and education function of the Museum.
Contains records related to public programming and education policy development, finances, planning, as well as other administrative activities.
Records in this series include correspondence, memoranda, drafts, query/suggestion forms, meeting minutes, grants, acquisition proposal report, reports, guidelines, policy proposals, and handwritten notes.

Series consist of records relating to the Museum of Anthropology’s planning and museum-wide policies. Records include minutes, agendas, drafts, memoranda, news releases, Museum strategic planning reports, budget reports, drafts, drafts of guidelines, and correspondence.

Series consists of Margaret Stott’s curriculum vitae. It describes her education, professional experience, exhibitions coordinated or curated, audio-visual publications, and publications. The series was created in 1991 to facilitate access to the sous-fonds.

Series includes drafts, sections, and manuscripts of the book

Series consists of records relating to Skooker Broome’s responsibilities as a liaison and coordinator of the Museum of Anthropology’s facilities and services. Areas of focus include building maintenance and renovations, and public works. Records include architectural drawings and presentation boards for proposed facility renovations, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes.

Series includes records created by Allison Cronin during her time working in Collections at the Museum of Anthropology

Includes records related to the Building Stream of the Renewal Project (MRP). The purpose of this stream was to expand and enhance the existing MOA built space, with the following specific objectives:
• To build a new research centre comprised of four Research Suite including laboratory spaces, individual and group work spaces, and office spaces.
• To construct new storage space, including visible and compacting storage, to house MOA’s and the Laboratory of Archaeology’s (LOA) collections
• To respect the building and its exterior as a significant architectural heritage site in the renovations plans
• To create spaces where community members may gather and attend to collection objects in ways that respect their cultural traditions
• To improve the Museum’s financial viability by expanding revenue generating facilities such as the retail store, and by making its building operations more efficient
• To create enhanced Visitor Services for Museum users, such welcoming and warm arrival spaces which ate self-orienting and which provide all needed amenities
• To create efficient and supportive work spaces for staff, students, researchers, and volunteers
• To provide a welcoming and comfortable environment for all researchers using MOA’s facilities
• To provide enhanced teaching support within the new facilities
(the purpose and objectives of the Building stream taken from the MRP Program Scope Definition, 1.2.)

Jill Baird and William McLennan were the Building stream leads.

The series is divided into subseries based on the various functions of the Building stream.

Series contains records pertaining to the Canada Foundation for Innovation grant named Partnership of Peoples that was awarded to the Museum of Anthropology in 2007. This project is often simply referred to by museum staff as 'the renewal'. David Cunningham was the lead project designer. His records include the architectural drawings from Stantec and Laboratorio Museotecnico Goppion, research and planning on furniture, lighting, locks, and security. In addition are photographs taken of all stages of the project.

Series contains photographs taken by Cunningham of the inside and outside of the building, exhibit cases, exhibit spaces, and other institutions.

This series documents the process choosing a contractor to complete a functional needs analysis and feasibility study of MOA’s space needs and subsequently of soliciting proposals for a detailed study of museum space needs and development options. The series contains drafts and copies of the initial call for expressions of interest for a functional needs analysis and includes the Preliminary Functional Needs Analysis report produced by LORD Cultural Resource Planning and Management, Inc. Other records were produced during the process of soliciting statements of interest for a study of museum space needs and development options. These records demonstrate the consultative approach used to rank the proposals received in response and also document the ongoing process of defining MOA’s space needs. Materials produced during these activities include proposals, correspondence, charts, correspondence, reports, notes, and tables. The series also includes minutes from several committees the activities of which relate to special planning. These include the minutes of the Cliff Erosion Committee and the minutes from 1990-1991 of the Visible Storage Committee.

Series consists of records created, received, and/or used by Lindy-Lou Flynn, a contract researcher hired by the Museum of Anthropology to work under the supervision of Rosa Ho. Lindy-Lou Flynn documented and conducted field-work on Pow-Wows in British Columbia and Washington State. The Pow-Wow research project focused on the role of Pow-Wows in the construction and perception of native identity. Records include a contract, funding and financial information, a final report, field notes, correspondences, colour slides, audio tapes and their summaries, a bibliography, artifacts, posters, a video, a photograph, signed release forms, scholarly articles, newspaper clippings, and brochures on the Pow-Wow 91 research project.

Series is composed of sourcebooks and related materials such as correspondence, consent forms, research notes, and exhibit design stemming from sourcebooks. Sourcebooks in this series were created under the guidance of Pam Brown. Many of the source books were created through the Aboriginal Museum Internship Programme and are often either autobiographical or offer perspectives and insights into the Aboriginal interns’ communities and lives. Other sourcebooks were produced in conjunction with First Nations artists. Though most of the sourcebooks were originally laminated or bound in binders, in 2011 and 2012, MOA published four hard cover copies of the sourcebooks, which are also included in the Series.

Series is made up of records related to the creation of a Nuu-chah-nulth (otherwise referred to as T’aat’aaqsapa, West Coast language, or Nootka) dictionary.

Powell was first contacted to do a Nuu-chah-nulth language project in 1989 by Andrew Callicum, a Nuu-chah-nulth Elder and acquaintance. Originally they planned to create curriculum materials, but after John Thomas, a main informant, left the project, it was decided that they would create a dictionary instead.

Series comprises five sub-series:
A. Field notes
B. Dictionary/publications
C. Research materials
D. Morphological lexicon
E. Audio recordings

Series documents Cunningham’s responsibilities as exhibits designer, and consists of records related to the planning and implementation of various exhibits since the late 1980s. In addition to his role as designer, Cunningham has also been involved in producing exhibit proposals; assisting with travelling exhibits; and developing exhibition policies and guidelines. Records include artists’ statements and artwork; banners; calligraphy; case lists; contact prints/proofs; contracts; correspondence; exhibition catalogues; exhibition panels; exhibition proposals; exhibition text; guidelines; invitations; labels; loan agreements; measurements; memoranda; minutes; negatives; object lists; photographs; photocopy of artworks; plans; policies; reports; schedules; and sketches.

The records are divided into the following sub-series:

A Guidelines 1992-1994

B Long-term installations [ca. 1992]-2000

C Proposals 1988-1996

D Schedules 1991-1993

E We Sing to the Universe: Poems and Drawings by Ron Hamilton [1994]-1994

F Fragments: The E. Sonner Donation of African Sculpture 1990-1991

G A Coat of Many Colours: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Canada 1990-1991

H Ancient Cloth / Ancient Code? 1990-1992

I Savage Graces: After Images by Gerald McMaster 1990-1993

J A Rare Flower: A Century of Cantonese Opera in Canada 1989-1997

K Inside Passage: 1792 1993

L Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy 1989-[ca. 1993]

M Cannery Days: A Chapter in the Lives of the Heilsuk 1993-1994

N High Slack: An Installation by Judith Williams 1992-1994

O Reclaiming History: Ledger Drawings by Assiniboine Artist Hongeeeysa 1993-1995

P Trapline Lifeline 1990-1992

Q Our Chiefs and Elders: Photographs by David Neel, Kwagiutl 1989-1990

R Festival Hong Kong: Possessions from the Past: Objects from a Lifetime of Change and Contrasts: Hong Kong’s New Territories in the 20th Century 1991-1992

S Nunavutmiutankik Elisasiniq: A Tribute to the People of Nunavut 1998-1999

T Travelling exhibits 1990-1991

U Gathering Strength: New Generations in Northwest Coast Art [199-?]-2004

V Continuing Traditions: Coast Salish Basketry 2000-2001

W Musqueam Weavers 1999-2000

X Haida Metalwork [1999?]-1999

Y Kaxlaya Gvilas [200-]-2002

Z Proud to be Musqueam 1991-1993

AA Repatriation 2000-2002

BB To Wash Away the Tears 2002-2003

CC Artifacts 1995-[ca. 1996]

DD The Abstract Edge: Recent Works by Robert Davidson 2001-2005

EE Mehodihi: Well-Known Traditions of Tahltan People [200-]-2003

FF Connoisseur’s Collection: Chinese Ceramics from the Victor Shaw Donation 2000-2002

GG Written in the Earth 1993-2002

HH Recalling the Past: Early Chinese Art from the
Victor Shaw Collection 1997-1998

II Maui: Turning Back the Sky: Exhibition of Contemporary
Hawaiian Art 1996-1997

JJ El Corazon Del Mundo: At the Heart of the World
La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia 2002

KK The Art of Norval Morrisseau 1999-2000

LL Without Masks: Contemporary Afro-Cuban Art 2014

MM Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian and Turkish Artists 2013

NN The Smart One video

OO Luminescence: the Silver of Peru 2012

PP Inuit Prints and Drawings: Selections from the Permanent Collection 1988-1989

QQ Carl Beam 2011

RR Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens 2010-2011

SS Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image 1986

TT Speaking to Memory 2013

UU One Mind, One Heart 2013

VV Hiroshima 2011-2012

WW Mungo Martin: A Slender Thread 2004

XX "Pasifika: Island Journeys” - The Frank Burnett Collection of Pacific Arts 2003-2004

YY Exhibit unknown

ZZ: Recent acquisitions 2005

Series consist of records created, received, and/or used by Skooker Broome in his capacity as Designer. The records relate to planning, designing, and installing of various exhibits at the Museum of Anthropology. Series contain some or all of the following kinds of records: correspondence, notes, reports, exhibition records, photographic materials, multimedia formats, and administrative and financial records relating to Skooker Broome’s function as Designer.

The series is arranged into 23 subseries:

Subseries A: The Spirit of Islam: Experiencing Islam through Calligraphy
Subseries B: Exhibit A: Objects of Intrigue
Subseries C: Gallery 3 Exhibit
Subseries D: From Under the Delta Exhibition
Subseries E: Heredity: Heredity Chiefs of the Haida
Subseries F: Katagami: Gift Wrap on Recycled Paper
Subseries G: Victor Shaw Collection
Subseries H: Lyle Wilson: When Worlds Collide
Subseries I: Eulachon: A Fish to Cure Humanity
Subseries J: Anth. 302 – Anthropology of South Asia – Student Exhibit
Subseries K: Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site, B.C.
Subseries L: Maya Exhibit
Subseries M: Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian and Turkish Artists
Subseries N: Paradise Lost? Contemporary Works from the Pacific
Subseries O: Anspayaxw: An Installation For Voice, Image, and Sound
Subseries P: Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael's Residential School
Subseries Q: The Marvellous Real: Art from Mexico, 1926 - 2011
Subseries R: Without Masks: Contemporary Afro-Cuban Art
Subseries S: Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth
Subseries T: c̓ əsnaʔəm: the city before the city
Subseries U: Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In Between: Portuguese Popular Art
Subseries V: “Don't give it up!” The Lives and Stories of the Mabel Stanley Collection
Subseries W: Pigapicha! 100 Years of Studio Photography in Nairobi

Series consists of materials used in the planning and design of the MOA Expansion projects which include visible storage and the Research Centre. Records consist of correspondence, memorandum, reports, grant application, budgets, design drawings, floor plans, and meeting minutes.

Series consists of records relating to exhibition planning carried out by Rosa Ho in her capacity as Curator of Art and Public programmes. Included in the records are planning records for exhibitions, installations, and performances hosted by and produced in whole or in part by the Museum of Anthropology.
Records include correspondence, memoranda, financial records, artist lists, object lists, artifact descriptions, exhibition programs, hand written notes, exhibition announcements, designs for labels, photographs, transcripts, grant proposals, loan agreements, artifacts, newspaper clippings, photocopied scholarly articles, a grant application for the “Chilcotin War” project, a Musqueam weaving proposal, a telephone transcription, an audio cassette and exhibition proposals.

Series consists of artists’ statements, cards, diagrams, lecture notes, pamphlets, reports, student assignments, and syllabi relating to David Dunnett Cunningham’s responsibility as an instructor of Anthropology 431: Museum Principles and Techniques, and 432: The Anthropology of Public Representation, and a community course, Introduction to the Museum of Anthropology.

Series consists of records pertaining to committees associated with planning and administration at the Museum of Anthropology. Records relate to the following committees: the Acquisition committee, the Public Programmes and Education committee, the Repatriation committee, the Management committee, the Visual Arts and Museums Advisory committee, and the Ways and Means committee. Records include minutes, policy reports, proposal forms, budget proposals & reports, newspaper clippings, preservation reports, exhibition proposals, handwritten notes, reports on access issues, object lists, and correspondence.

Series documents projects Cunningham took on outside of his main roles at MOA. Cunningham was involved in MOA’s identity development in the late 1990s, and participated in shop product development around this time. He also provided external consultation to other museums and UBC departments. Included in this series is material regarding MOA exhibition cases at YVR Airport pre-dating Cunningham’s time at the museum. Records include correspondence, drawings, measurements, and photographs.