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• June 5, 2006 (Gallery 8)
• The Museum has recently embarked upon a major Renewal Project known as “A Partnership of Peoples”. In this exhibit, MOA displays its plans for expansion and renovation, a scale model, and samples of architectural details, finishings, and furnishings.

• September 27, 2011—April 8, 2012 (The O’Brian Gallery)
• Do objects remember? Or are they wrapped in the memories we bring to them, like layers of stories folded around a picture, a voice, or a worn-out shoe? In this exhibit, created to complement ひろしま hiroshima by Ishiuchi Miyako, opening in The Audain Gallery on October 13, visitors are invited to experience selected objects and media from MOA’s worldwide collection. Some are ancient, some are new. Some are inscribed with their histories, while others are uprooted – their origins, makers, and journeys erased or forgotten. Some, like the green dress of the title, speak to memories and relationships not contained by the Museum but still part of living communities. Please join us for this intimate, yet revealing, look at the collections, curated by Karen Duffek, Krisztina Laszlo, Carol Mayer, and Susan Rowley.

• February 11 – September 19, 2021
• CURATOR: Fuyubi Nakamura
• On March 11, 2011, Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake that caused extensive damage to the Great Eastern region. The ensuing tsunami swallowed up coastal towns, and caused irrevocable damage to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In the 10th anniversary year of the Great East Japan Earthquake, or 3.11, A Future for Memory addresses how we deal with memory when our physical surroundings are drastically altered. It focuses on the changing physical and psychological landscapes in the aftermath of 3.11 and shows that regional disasters have global relevance. Events such as 3.11 force us to rethink our ways of life in relation to nature. Even in the midst of disasters, people have the desire to create and to express themselves—as does nature. The works in the exhibition trigger memories, emotions and imaginations. They serve as more than objects of memory; they remind us of the force of nature and the continuous efforts of survivors to rebuild their lives. There is a future for memory through the creation of connections that will be passed on for generations to come.
• Featuring works by: • Masao Okabe • Chihiro Minato • Atsunobu Katagiri • The Rias Ark Museum of Art • The center for remembering 3.11 • The Lost & Found Project • The “Lost Homes” Scale Model Restoration Project • The Tsunami Ladies film project team

• May 9 - October 1, 1989 (Gallery 5)
• Making cloth is a vital, everyday activity in Taquile, where everyone makes and uses cloth according to tradition. This exhibit presents examples of the cloth and clothing made by a four-generation family over a five-year period. The family’s cloth parallels their lives, reflecting changes in the community as well as the stages and momentous events in their lives between 1982 and 1987. Their portraits and biographies, their simple tools and images of their island home will accompany the exhibit.

Use for: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Victor Shaw Donation

• May 30, 2001 - March 10, 2002
• With this exhibition, the Museum of Anthropology celebrates the recent gifts of The Victor Shaw Collection of Chinese Arts to the University of British Columbia. Created over a period of 5000 years, the objects in the collection are made of ceramic, bronze, and precious metals. Each piece reflects the collector’s sensitive eye and discriminating taste and, in turn, a long tradition of Chinese art connoisseurship.

• September 6 - November 17, 1991 (Gallery 5)
• The history of the Jewish experience in Canada was brought to life with 300 objects, from the common to the extraordinary, and the personal stories of individuals, from the famous to the unknown. The exhibition explored relations between Jews and non-Jews in Canada-relations that have been touchingly warm and disturbingly harsh. By mirroring the experiences of other ethnic and cultural communities in Canada, “A Coat of Many Colours” offered visitors a very timely understanding of the strengths of our national cloth.

• April 7 - September 6, 1999
• Student exhibition: An exhibit of recently donated prints and drawings by ten Inuit artists organized by the students of Anthropology 432 (The Anthropology of Public Representation) to reflect ideas about community history and identity.