Museum of Northern British Columbia

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Contact Lindsey Martin 624-3207 ext 23. Please inform us of the date you would like to visit, grade and class size. Please reserve as early as possible to ensure that your dates can be accommodated.

School groups are welcome to visit the Museum, accompanied by their teachers, without participating in a tour. Please call the museum to inform us of the date and time of your visit and we will offer your class a brief introduction to the museum.

Programs listed in this brochure are part of an ongoing initiative of the Museum of Northern BC to offer quality, innovative educational programs that are accessible to schools within District 52 and to other districts/institutions within the region.

If your school district/institution has an institutional membership, there is no program or admission fee. Adult chaperones are free.

If your school district/institution does not have an institutional membership, there is a $2.00 charge per student to cover the cost of the program and admission to the Museum. Adult chaperones are free. Institutional memberships are available for school districts and institutions on an annual basis. The membership offers all classes from the institution or school district free admission for the year. For more information or to purchase an institutional membership contact Robin Weber at 250-624-3207 ext 22.

Lindsey Martin,
Museum of Northern British Columbia,
100 1st Avenue West
Prince Rupert, British Columbia,V8J 1A8
Phone: 250-624-3207 ext. 23
Fax: 250-627-8009
e-mail: publicprograms@citytel.net

Children search for animals while exploring the Museum, then make their own animal "puppet" to take home.
Length 1 hour

Children explore the museum and search for shapes amongst the artifacts, then make a shape fish to take home.
Length 1 hour

An introduction to the Museum that includes a visual treasure hunt, drawing and the construction of a miniature museum to take back to the classroom.
Length 1 hour +

An introduction to the traditional ways of the Tsimshian. Students learn what ancient villages were like through discussion, hands on artifacts, a gallery search and a story.
Length 50 minutes

What was it like to arrive in Prince Rupert in the early 1900's? Follow Erna and Ernst as they travel from Germany to Prince Rupert. Students follow their travels on simple maps to learn about different types of transportation available in 1905 and find out what home life was like in the early days of a new city.
Length 60 minutes

Why do we visit an art gallery? What can we learn? These are some of the topics students explore and discuss during a tour of the current Art Gallery exhibit. Students then create an art project to take home.
Length 90 minutes

Not just an ordinary box! Delve into how the Tsimshian made the remarkable bentwood box and learn of its many uses! Students discover through images and hands on artifacts, then make and decorate their own "bentwood" box!
Length 1 hour

Fort Simpson to Port Essington to Prince Rupert. Students learn about the early businesses and technologies that shaped the area, then build their own city with photographs of early Prince Rupert buildings.
Length 50 minutes

Students learn about the richness of Tsimshian culture from daily life activities and seasonal rounds to the hosting of winter feasts. Hands-on artifacts and activities give students a chance to review their knowledge, develop observation skills and explore their own favourite artifacts.
Length 1 hour +

Why was Prince Rupert the "port of progress on the pacific coast" rather than Port Essington? How did the arrival of new technology affect communities? Students learn the early history of the area then sleuth through clues of photographs, newspaper articles, journal entries and artifacts to identify a pioneer.
Length 1 hour

Students learn from ancient stories while exploring the museum. After a tour and gallery activity, students make a puppet to take home.
Length 1 hour +

Why do we visit an art gallery? What can we learn? Students explore and discuss the current exhibition in the Art Gallery, then work on an art project to take home.
Length 1 hour +

Students learn about the traditional uses of masks through discussion of the Museum’s collection. After a short tour and museum activity students make their own mask of paper.
Length 1 hour +

Why do we visit an art gallery? What can we learn? Students explore and discuss the current exhibition in the Art Gallery, then work on an art project to take home.
Length 1 hour +

Students learn basic weaving techniques and vocabulary while exploring cedar, Chilkat and Raven’s Tail weaving. The tour includes gallery activity.
Length 1 hour +

Why do we visit an art gallery? What can we learn? Students explore and discuss the current exhibition in the Art Gallery, then work on an art project to take home.
Length 1 hour +

Archaeology in our backyard? Students learn how Northwest coast archaeologists identify a site, how a dig site is set up and then become archaeologists as they analyse and identify artifacts.
Length 1 hour

Students view and discuss the current exhibition in the art gallery. Exhibitions change throughout the year and feature a variety of artists.
Length 20 minutes

Students learn about equipment and techniques used in photography in the early part of the 20th century. Slide show of early Prince Rupert photographs follows the tour.
Length 20 minutes