 The Museum of Anthropology. The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus near Vancouver, Canada, is one of the foremost museums of Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations culture. As well as being a major tourist destination, the museum is also a teaching museum, used in a number of courses at UBC, and a research museum. The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands adjacent to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. ...
Vancouver (pronounced ) is a Canadian city in the province of British Columbia. ...
First Nations is a term of ethnicity used in Canada. ...
Location The Museum is located at 6393 Northwest Marine Drive. Although the Museum is strongly affiliated with UBC, this site is technically off-campus. The Museum and UBC lie in the University Endowment Lands, which are not officially part of the City of Vancouver. University Hill or the proper University Endowment Lands is a community in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ...
Vancouver (pronounced ) is a Canadian city in the province of British Columbia. ...
History  The Museum of Anthropology's west side. The Museum was founded in 1947 when the various items in UBC's ethnographic collection were put on display in the basement of the Main Library. Dr. Harry Hawthorn served as the first director of the new museum, with his wife, Dr. Audrey Hawthorn, serving as its first curator. Ethnography (from the Greek ethnos = nation and graphein = writing) refers to the qualitative description of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. ...
In 1971 the Museum received funds from the Government of Canada and UBC to begin construction of a new building. In 1976 the new building, designed by renowned Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, opened under new director Michael Ames, who served from 1974 to 1997. Walter and Marianne Koerner's 1975 donation of their extensive collection of Northwest Coast First Nations art to the Museum formed a large part of the new building's contents. Arthur Charles Erickson OC (born June 14, 1924, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian architect of Swedish descent. ...
Michael M. Ames is a Canadian academic and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology of the department of anthropology-sociology at the University of British Columbia. ...
Walter Charles Koerner (1898 - July 21, 1995) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. ...
First Nations is a term of ethnicity used in Canada. ...
In 1997 Dr. Ruth Philipps became Museum director. In 2002 Dr. Michael Ames returned as Acting Director. Dr. Anthony Shelton became Director in 2004.
The Building Arthur Erickson's building was inspired by the post-and-beam Architecture of the Northwest Coast First Nations people. Like much of Erickson's work, the building is made primarily out of concrete. Arthur Charles Erickson OC (born June 14, 1924, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian architect of Swedish descent. ...
Timber framing is the modern term for the traditional half-timbered construction in which timber provides a visible skeletal frame that supports the whole building. ...
First Nations is a term of ethnicity used in Canada. ...
Pouring a concrete floor for a commercial building, (slab-on-grade) Installing rebar in a floor slab during a concrete pour For other uses, see Concrete (disambiguation). ...
The Collections This museum includes a number of large sculptures, totem poles and cultural artifacts. Although the Museum's focus is on the First Nations people of the Northwest Coast, the collection of 35,000 pieces includes objects from all continents. These are mostly located in the visible storage section of the Museum, a gallery where objects that would normally be stored behind the scenes are made accessible to the public. The collections include contemporary works as well as historical objects. Totem Poles are monumental sculptures carved from great trees, typically Western Redcedar, by a number of Native American cultures along the Pacific northwest coast of North America. ...
The Haida are an indigenous people of the west coast of North America. ...
Totem Poles are monumental sculptures carved from great trees, typically Western Redcedar, by a number of Native American cultures along the Pacific northwest coast of North America. ...
Contemporary is an adjective which in its basic form merely means that two individuals, events or movements overlapped in time. ...
Highlights The most iconic object in the Museum is probably the yellow cedar sculpture the Raven and the First Men by Bill Reid, which is depicted on the Canadian twenty-dollar bill. Binomial name Callitropsis nootkatensis (D. Don) Örsted Nootka Cypress (Callitropsis nootkatensis), formerly Cupressus nootkatensis, Xanthocyparis nootkatensis or Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, is a cypress (Cupressaceae) with a chequered taxonomic and nomenclatural history. ...
Bill Reids sculpture The Raven and The New Men, showing part of a Haida creation myth. ...
Front of $20 bill Back of $20 bill The Canadian $20 bill is one of the most common banknotes of Canadian currency. ...
Other notable Bill Reid works include his Bear and Wasco sculptures, some of his gold jewellery, and a prototype of the Haida dugout canoe he carved for Expo 86. Bill Reids sculpture The Raven and The New Men, showing part of a Haida creation myth. ...
Genera Ailuropoda Ailurus Helarctos Melursus Ursus Tremarctos Arctodus (extinct) A bear is a large mammal in the family Ursidae of the order Carnivora. ...
Wasco is the name of two places in the United States: Wasco in California, Wasco in Oregon. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ...
Jewellery (Jewelry in American English) is literally any piece of fine material used to adorn one’s self. ...
The Haida are an indigenous people of the west coast of North America. ...
A dugout is a boat which is basically a hollowed tree trunk. ...
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The Museum contains several large Musqueam artifacts from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, rare because the Musqueam were one of the first Northwest Coast First Nations to be displaced and decimated by European settlement and diseases. (pronounced MUSS-quee-um) also spelled as XmuzkIum pronounced the same. ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
(19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...
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The Museum's Great Hall contains many sections of totem poles from Haida villages abandoned in the late nineteenth century due to disease brought by European traders. A great hall was the main room of a royal palace, a noblemans castle or a large manor house in the Middle Ages, and in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries. ...
A disease is an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person. ...
The Museum has an extensive collection from the South Pacific. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Oceania. ...
The Koerner Ceramics Gallery, which opened in 1990, contains over 600 European ceramics collected by Walter Koerner and donated to the Museum. This article is about the year. ...
The Haida houses outside the Museum were designed by Bill Reid, who also carved, along with Douglas Cranmer, most of the totem poles surrounding them. The original Reid/Cranmer totem pole mounted on the front of the big house was taken inside in 2000 due to deterioration and replaced with the new "Respect to Bill Reid Pole" by Haida artist Jim Hart. This article is about the year 2000. ...
The Renewal Project In 2006, the Museum launched a multi-million dollar project to rebuild and expand parts of the Museum, especially the offices, research labs, and visible storage. The project will be completed in 2009. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2009 (MMIX) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
External links - Museum of Anthropology Official Site
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