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File consists of reports of the museum's activities from 1947 onward. These reports were generally produced at the end of each fiscal year beginning in 1978. Most reports cover a single year, while some span multiple years. In some years, multiple reports were produced. The file does not contain reports for the fiscal years ending in 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2017, or 2018.

The reports in this file give information on the museum's activities, attendance, administration, funding, renovations, security, volunteer associates, curatorial work, exhibitions, acquisitions and donations, interactions with the university, outreach, programs such as the Native Youth Project and the Prison Outreach Program, educational activities, marketing, VIP visitors, and special events, among other topics.

Series consists of books and catalogues pertaining to exhibitions and collections at the Museum of Anthropology. The following exhibitions and collection are covered by publications within the series:

• Bodies of Enchantment: Puppets from Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas
• Charles Edenshaw
• Chinese Art
• Divine Threads: The Visual and Material Culture of Cantonese Opera
• Discerning Eye: The Walter C. Koerner Collection of European Ceramics
• Gawa Gyani
• Heaven, Hell, and Somewhere In Between: Portuguese Popular Art
• ひろしま Hiroshima
• Knowledge Within
• Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories
• Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures
• Luminescence: The Silver of Peru (English)
• Luminiscencia: La Plata del Perú (Spanish)
• People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point
• Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian, and Turkish Artists
• Savage Graces
• The H.R. MacMillan Collection
• The Marvellous Real: Art from Mexico, 1926 - 2011
• The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
• The Potter's Art: Contributions to the Study of the Koerner Collection of European Ceramics
• The Transforming Image
• The Walter and Marianne Koerner Collection
• Theatrum Mundi: Masks and Masquerades in Mexico and the Andes
• Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
• Under Different Moons: African Art in Conversation
• Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art

File consists of brochures that advertise exhibitions and events at the museum, including short blurbs about each. Each calendar covers a four-month period (January-April, May-August, or September-December).

Types of events described include exhibitions, opening receptions, lectures, artist talks, guided gallery walks, behind-the-scenes tours, events for youths and seniors, site visits and other excursions, conferences, workshops, identification clinics, performances, courses, school programs, calls for volunteers, sales at the gift shop, and reports on research and community-based projects. The calendars also contain museum announcements and news as well as general visitor information and lists of donors.

This collects all MOA Museum Notes. Museum Notes are produced by MOA staff and artists to accompany a particular exhibition or installation. Each Museum Note expands on the information provided to visitors in the exhibition, shining a light on individual works, processes, and artists. They provide supplementary content for museum visitors and serve as a documentation of research.

List of Museum Notes by #:
[0] Beginnings: An Exhibition of the silkscreen prints of Roy Henry Vickers
[1] Norman Tait Nishga Carver
[2] Joe David
[3] Totem Poles: An Illustrated Guide
[4] Pursuing the Past: A General Account of British Columbia Archaeology
[5] Image and Life: 50,000 years of Japanese Prehistory
[6] The Raven Rattle
[7] Cycles: The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson, Haida
[8] The Haida Legend of the Raven and the First Humans as retold by Bill Reid
[9] Sculpture and Engraving of the Central Coast Salish Indians
[10] A Guide to Buying Contemporary Northwest Coast Indian Arts
[11] Blood from Stone
[12] Ninstints: Haida World Heritage Site
[13] Changing Tides: the Development of Archaeology in B.C.’s Fraser Delta
[14] Ouroboros: A Major Work by Vancouver Artist Stephen Clark
[15] New Visions: Serigraphs by Susan A. Point, Coast Salish Artist
[16] Hands of Our Ancestors: The Revival of Salish Weaving at Musqueam
[17] Robes of Power: Totem Poles on Cloth
[18] Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image
[19] Bill Reid: Beyond the Essential Form
[20] From the collections: UBC Museum of Anthropology cookbook
[21] Cowichan Indian Knitting
[22] The Third Eye: The Scientific Investigation of Museum Objects
[23] Bob Boyer: A Blanket Statement
[24] Translations of Tradition: Joanna Staniszkis’ Recent Work
[25] La Légende Haïda du Grand Corbeau et des Premiers Hommes Racontée par Bill Reid
[26] A Family Affair: Making cloth in Taquile, Peru
[27] The Leary Collection of Cypriot Antiquities
[28] Lyle Wilson: When Worlds Collide
[29] Our Chiefs and Elders: Photographs by David Neel, Kwagiutl
[30] The Koerner Ceramics Gallery
[31] Fragments: Reflections on Collecting
[32] Eulachon: A Fish to Cure Humanity
[33] Labour of Love: The Making of the Museum
[34] Recalling the Past: A Selection of Early Chinese Art from the Victor Shaw Collection
[35] Objects and Expressions: Celebrating the Collections of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
[36a] Nunavutmiutanik Elisasiniq: A Tribute to the Peoples of Nunavut
[36b] Raven’s Reprise: Contemporary Works by First Nations Artists
[37] From the Collections: UBC Museum of Anthropology Cookbook, 50th Anniversary Edition
[38] Robert Davidson: The Abstract Edge
[38F] Robert Davidson: le Bord Abstrait
[39] Peter Morin’s Museum: An Installation with Performances
[40] Hiroshima by Ishiuchi Miyako
[41] Pleased to Meet You: Introductions by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
[42] Paradise Lost?: Contemporary Works from the Pacific
[43] (In)visible: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art
[44] In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man: Memories, Myths and contemporary art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
[n/a] Layers of Influence
[45] In Her Words: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia
[46] Shadows, Strings & Other Things: Puppet Makers & Puppeteers
[47] Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary
[n/a] Kent Monkman: Shame and Prejudice
[48] A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake

7 posters in this file include:

• Sound House
• Persian Summer Breeze: Mystic Music and Sufi Dance at the Chan Centre
• WAM! World Art Market
• Edward Curtis Meets the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw
• MOA Mash Up
• Coastal first nations dance festival
• Ghosts in the Machine
• Family day
• MOA Blackout festival
• Commonwealth Drum Festival (October 6-14, 1987)