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Archival description
Building Projects
106-03 · Series · 1988 - 2005
Part of Darrin Morrison fonds

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.

Building projects and plans
35-4-C · Subseries · 1945-1978
Part of Audrey Hawthorn (MOA Curator) fonds

Subseries consists primarily of material relating to the construction of a new museum building in the mid-1970s. There are also records regarding earlier proposals for new museum facilities which never materialized. There is material relating to the design and installation of the ‘Ksan doors and the Koerner Gallery. Record forms include correspondence, design plans (housed in the map cabinet), design team meeting minutes, budget notes and contracts.

Darrin Morrison fonds
106 · Fonds · 1988 - 2005

Fonds consists of material related to Morrison’s involvement with several exhibits at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, as well as his work planning and implementing preventative conservation measures, and his work design the Museum Research Centre. The fonds consists of one series of Exhibitions with sub-series corresponding to separate exhibits. Another series consists of information on a book on textiles and costumes. The last series consists of information about building projects that Morrison was involved with. Material consists of correspondence, handwritten notes, exhibit catalogs, poster and invitation proofs, budgets, slides, copy and 35 mm negatives, floppy disks, project descriptions, postcards, video cassettes and artist histories.

The fonds is arranged in the following series:

  1. Exhibitions
  2. Textiles and Costume
  3. Building Projects
Darrin Morrison
Facilities and services
35-4 · Series · 1945-1978
Part of Audrey Hawthorn (MOA Curator) fonds

This series consists of material relating to the physical environment in which the museum operates. Series is further arranged into subseries, with the records in the subseries arranged chronologically. The records in the series are composed of photographs, work order forms, correspondence, and memoranda. Subseries consists of correspondence, memoranda, plans, financial documents, design plans, minutes, budgets, notes, and contracts.

The series is arranged into three subseries:
Subseries A: General
Subseries B: Building Maintenance
Subseries C: Building Projects and Plans

119-4 · Series · 1972 - 2019
Part of Director's fonds

Series consists of correspondence and memoranda, reports, minutes, blueline prints, architectural plans, handwritten notations, journal articles, newspaper clippings, brochures, photographs and other textual and graphic material relating to Museum of Anthropology facilities and services. The series includes records regarding the museum’s construction plans and projects, including: the initial planning and building of the museum and several of its expansions and renovations. Also included are records relating to building maintenance; this includes records relating to building security and museum grounds.

The series is divided into the following subseries:

A. General Files 1972-1995

B. Building Maintenance Files 1973-1996

C. Building Projects and Plans Files 1972-1988