The Museum of Anthropology was founded in 1949 to collect, preserve, research, and display archaeological and ethnographic material from British Columbia and the rest of the world. Today, it is Canada’s largest teaching museum and one of its most popular public museums, located within the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Winner of the 1989 Canadian Tourism Commission’s “Tourist Attraction of the Year – Canada” Award, the museum annually attracts 148,000 visitors. The Museum houses one of the world’s finest collections of Northwest Coast First People’s art in a spectacular building overlooking mountains and sea.
