Tours
Onsite learning
We offer free exhibition introductions for university classes, school classes, and community groups of all ages. Group visits with a short introduction to the exhibition(s).
Engagement with works of art encourages students to investigate ideas. It fosters critical and interdisciplinary thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. Above all, a museum experience is designed to nurture wonder and curiosity in students of all ages.
Please contact us legacy@uvic.ca to book your free visit.
Please include the following information in your email or phone call:
- Organization/Group name
- Expected number of participants
- Exhibition(s) you’d like to view
- Preferred date and time
- Special needs your group might have
See what is currently on view on the Exhibitions page.
Indigenous Art on Campus
These resouces give visitors an opportunity to visit with the Indigenous art located across the UVic campus. The goal is to educate students, staff, faculty and visitors about the important values, stories, history and messages carried by the Indigenous art on campus.
These tours can be used as an interdisciplinary teaching resource to provide transformative learning through storytelling related to land, peoples, and culture told through the art we see around us everyday at UVic.
Online Resources:
Guided Tour for UVic classes
90 minutes
This tour gives students and faculty the opportunity to learn about the teachings and worldviews of the Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast through their art. Themes include the importance of passing on ancestral knowledge through art and story; Indigenous connections to land and place; and the interdependence of all things. We are now accepting bookings for 90-minute walking tours for UVic classes.
Contact Lorilee Wastasecoot, Curator of Indigenous Art & Engagement
lwastase@uvic.ca | 250 721-8299
Image: lessLIE (Coast Salish; Quw Utsun, Penelakut, Esquimalt), Salish Community, 2010.