The report outlines the museum's activities and finances for the previous fiscal year, including listing staff, attendance figures, acquisitions, exhibitions, educational activities, public programming, events, loans, research projects, and publications of the museum and its staff. It includes descriptions of MOA 70th anniversary celebration, the plan to implement UNDRIP, the 40th anniversary of the Native Youth Program, the establishment of the Indigenous Internship Program, the hosting of International Council of Monuments and Sites, and the success of the exhibits “Shadows, Strings and Other Things: The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets” and “Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary”, as well as the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes updates from the Native Youth Program, Audrey & Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives, Reciprocal Research Network (RRN), Oral History and Language Lab (OHLL) and the teaching and training of university students.

This issue contains articles on current and upcoming exhibitions, the Great Hall seismic upgrades, the UBC President's Staff Award for Community Engagement recipient Salma Mawani, the beginning of a project to decolonize MOA's Africa collections, funding from Canadian Heritage's Museum Assistance Program, Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary, the history of the museum and the Hawthorns, fast fashion and sustainable textiles, highlights from the Multiversity Galleries, the return of a Haida mortuary pole, the Native Youth Program, the MOA shop, artist-in-residence Sharon Reay, and the MOA Director's Advisory Council.