MONOVA: MUSEUM OF NORTH VANCOUVER
HOURS:
Thursday to Sunday
11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Victoria Day (May 23)
11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Programs at the Museum
Included with admission
Discovery Session: Streetcars
Learn more about North Vancouver streetcars and our iconic Streetcar 153 with MONOVA staff and volunteers.
Audience: All ages.
Time: 11:00am to 4:00pm
Discovery Session: Mountaineering
Learn more about the history of mountaineering with MONOVA staff and volunteers, guess the mystery artifacts, and make a little hiker puppet.
Audience: All ages.
Time: 11:00am to 4:00pm
Campfire Capers: Bears
Campfire Capers is a preschool story-time program for children aged 2-5 focused different themes. In each 30-minute program, we will learn about a topic, read a story, sing a song, look at a special museum object and do a fun activity.
Audience: Ages 2 to 5 and their caregivers
Time: 11:15am
Gallery Tour with Tanner Zerr
Join actor-interpreter Tanner Zerr for a guided tour of the Museum’s permanent exhibit gallery.
Audience: All ages
Time: 1:00pm
Discovery Session: Name that Plant
How many plants indigenous to the North Shore do you know about?
Play the “Name that Plant” guessing game with our staff and volunteers in an activity developed with Indigenous Cultural Programmers Senaqwila Wyss and Tsawaysia Spukwus.
Audience: All ages.
Time: 11:00am to 4:00pm
Campfire Capers: Bears
Campfire Capers is a preschool story-time program for children aged 2-5 focused different themes. In each 30-minute program, we will learn about a topic, read a story, sing a song, look at a special museum object and do a fun activity.
Audience: Ages 2 to 5 and their caregivers
Time: 11:15am
Gallery Tour with Tsawaysia Spukwus
Join Indigenous Cultural Programmer Tsawaysia Spukwus for a guided tour of the Museum’s permanent exhibit gallery.
Audience: All ages
Time: 1:00pm
Coast Salish Drum Making with Tsawaysia Spukwus
Indigenous Cultural Programmer Tsawaysia Spukwus shares her knowledge on Coast Salish drum making.
Audience: All ages
Time: 2:30pm
Sensory Friendly Mornings
Sensory Friendly Mornings offer neurodiverse individuals, their families and caregivers the ability to visit the museum two hours before scheduled opening. Visitors will enjoy a calm, relaxed atmosphere where they can take part in fun, safe activities with their own ‘bubble’.
Audience: Families and neurodiverse individuals
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm
Discovery Session: Amazing Animals
Fun science activities for all ages! Test your knowledge of animal adaptations with a bird beak challenge and learn about the science of snow shoes.
Audience: All ages.
Time: 11:00am to 4:00pm
Science Show: Making Mountains
The North Shore Mountains are the result of forces happening deep under the ground. This landscape was once covered in ice glaciers which created many of the shapes we see in the mountains today.
Come along and see science in action and discover how the landscape is changing.
Audience: All ages
Time: 12:00pm
Gallery Tour with Charlie Cook
Join actor-interpreter Charlie Cook for a guided tour of the Museum’s permanent exhibit gallery.
Audience: All ages
Time: 1:00pm
