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The report outlines the museum's administrative activities and finances for the previous fiscal year as well as listing staff, attendance figures, acquisitions, exhibitions, educational activities, public programming, events, loans, research projects, publications of the museum and its staff, and media coverage of the museum.

File contains images of the <i>Transforming Images</i> exhibit held at MOA in 1993. The images show pieces featured in the exhibit, as well as people visiting the exhibit.

File contains 18 comment books from the exhibit A Rare Flower: A Century of Cantonese Opera in Canada, from May 16 - November 7, 1993

Translations from A Rare Flower Comment books [1991?]
A Rare Flower 1993
A Rare Flower May 16 – July 8/93
A Rare Flower July 8 - Sept.3/93
A Rare Flower Sept.3 - Nov.6/93
A Rare Flower (Kelowna) Jan.18 - Mar.15/94
A Rare Flower May 10 – June 13/94
A Rare Flower (Edmonton) June 15 - July2/94
A Rare Flower (Edmonton) July 7 - 17/94
A Rare Flower (Manitoba) Sep.1 - Nov.12/94
A Rare Flower (Glenbow) Dec.28/94 - Feb.25/95
A Rare Flower (AGGU) Apr. 9 – May 11/95
A Rare Flower (Vancouver) June 7 - 17/95
A Rare Flower July 17 - Aug.8/95
A Rare Flower Aug.8 - 24/95
A Rare Flower Aug.24 - Oct.15/95
A Rare Flower (McCord) Dec. 7, 1995 – Feb. 4, 1996

The collection consists of nine large watercolour illustrative panels commissioned by the UBC Museum of Anthropology, eight of which were commissioned for the exhibit "The Four Seasons: Food Getting in British Columbia Prehistory," which ran from April to November 1979. The other watercolour is from an unidentified exhibit or sourcebook.

The collection also contains one painting that was commissioned by the museum for a publication (Museum Note, no.12, "Ninstints: World Heritage Site"), as well as a blueprint reproduction of a related drawing. These are renderings of how the houses and poles on a beach at the Ninstints village site might have looked when they were in use. The rendering is based on George MacDonald's map.

Collection consists of the following items:

001: The Four Seasons – Spring – Interior [1979?]
002: The Four Seasons – Spring – Coast [1979?]
003: The Four Seasons – Summer – Interior [1979?]
004: The Four Seasons – Summer – Coast [1979?]
005: The Four Seasons – Autumn – Interior [1979?]
006: The Four Seasons – Autumn – Coast [1979?]
007: The Four Seasons – Winter – Interior [1979?]
008: The Four Seasons – Winter – Coast [1979?]
009: Haida six beam house 1993
010: [Ninstints village painting] 1983
011: [Ninstints village, drawing for Museum Note] 1983

File contains images of bentwood boxes used for public relations for the exhibit. In addition are correspondence with the CBC, and a copy of pages from the guest book from the exhibit.

File contains 4 comment books from the exhibit Savage Graces: After Images by Gerald McMaster, from July 24, 1992 - June 3, 1993

Dates of comment books:
July 24 – Sep. 4, 1992
Sep. 4 – Nov.30, 1992
Nov. 30, 1992 – March 22, 1993
March 22 – June 3, 1993

Subseries consists of records relating to the exhibit “Eulachon: A Fish to Cure Humanity.” The exhibit was installed in Gallery 5 at the Museum of Anthropology from February 5 to May 31, 1992, and explored traditions associated with the fishing of eulachon and technology used to render its oil. In his capacity as Designer, Skooker Broome worked on the planning, designing, and installation of the exhibit. Records include: memoranda, correspondence, negatives, color photographs, b&w photographs, thumbnail photographs, transparencies, French and English exhibition captions and didactic panels, travel receipts, pencil and ink drawings, published articles, artifact lists, project summaries, budgets, a fish stamp, conservation records, exhibit catalogue drafts, colored photocopies of photographic images, exhibit diagrams, exhibit instructions, exhibit layouts installations, and designs.

The sub-series contains materials relating to the exhibit Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy, for which Duffek was the exhibition coordinator and Robert Houle was the guest curator. The exhibition took place from December 1993 through May of 1994. The exhibition featured works by contemporary First Nations artists who question the concept of the “other.” Records consist of articles, exhibit text and labels, internal reports, correspondences, artist biographies, and a report based on visitor interviews.