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Are you visiting from Oct 15, 2013 - May 16, 2014? Purchase this day pass for the Royal BC Museum exhibits.

Purchase a day pass for the Royal BC Museum exhibits including We Call Them Vikings on display May 16 - November 11, 2014.

If one day is not enough, you may purchase this two day pass for the Royal BC Museum exhibits.

Pick up a copy of What's Insight magazine.

What's Insight is realeased four times a year by the Royal BC Museum Membership Department. Purchase your copy today, or sign up to become a member instead and it's just one of the many benefits included.

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Family maximum five, two persons 19+ and up to three persons six to 18

*Prices are subject to change and include all applicable taxes.

You will receive your membership cards by mail within 5-10 business days.

For information please contact: (250) 356-7226 or
1-888-447-7977 (Toll Free)
membership@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca

NOTE: For privacy and security reasons, credit card information is not stored on our system at any time. It is encrypted and passed directly to the bank for payment processing.

Are you renewing your membership? Please log in here first.

*Prices are subject to change and include all applicable taxes.

You will receive your membership cards by mail within 5-10 business days.

For information please contact: (250) 356-7226 or
1-888-447-7977 (Toll Free)
membership@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca

NOTE: For privacy and security reasons, credit card information is not stored on our system at any time. It is encrypted and passed directly to the bank for payment processing.

The most thoughtful card you'll ever send. A Royal BC Museum membership unlocks a world of discovery, making it the ideal gift for anyone, any time. With millions of years of history one visit is never enough.

*Prices are subject to change and include all applicable taxes. Memberships are non-transferable and non-refundable.

Purchase this Combination for the Royal BC Museum exhibits and one IMAX 45-minute film.

This combination includes the Royal BC Museum exhibits and one IMAX Feature length film.

Includes a two (2) day pass to the Royal BC Museum and one IMAX 45-minute film.

Includes a two (2) day pass to the Royal BC Museum and one IMAX Feature length film.

View two IMAX 45 minute films on the same day.

Overview: The three films tell a continuous story set in Middle-earth 60 years before "The Lord of the Rings", which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar®-winning "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King". 

The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece "The Hobbit", by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellan) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.

Having survived the beginning of their unexpected journey, the Company continues East, encountering along the way the skin-changer Beorn and a swarm of giant Spiders in the treacherous forest of Mirkwood. After escaping capture by the dangerous Wood-elves, the Dwarves journey to Lake-town, and finally to the Lonely Mountain itself, where they must face the greatest danger of all a creature more terrifying than any other; one which will test not only the depth of their courage but the limits of their friendship and the wisdom of the journey itself the Dragon Smaug.

Ian McKellen returns as Gandalf the Grey, with Martin Freeman in the central role of Bilbo Baggins, and Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield. The international ensemble cast is led by Benedict Cumberbatch, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt, and Orlando Bloom as Legolas. The film also stars (in alphabetical order) John Bell, Manu Bennett, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John Callen, Ryan Gage, Mark Hadlow, Peter Hambleton, Stephen Hunter, William Kircher, Lawrence Makoare, Sylvester McCoy, Graham McTavish, Dean O Gorman, Mikael Persbrandt, and Aidan Turner.

The IMAX release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of An IMAX Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images coupled with IMAX's customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie. Rated PG-13. Run Time: 2hr, 41min

It's a symbol of terror and extreme ferocity. It evokes nightmares among those who perceive it as a devouring machine, seeking its next prey. The great white shark, however, is itself on the verge of extinction, the victim of a merciless predator: Man.

Shot on location in South Africa, New Zealand, Mexico and California, the film looks to find the truth behind the mythic creature forever stigmatized by its portrayal in the world's first blockbuster movie, Jaws.

Great White Shark aims to reveal the strength and beauty of these animals by looking through the eyes of those who have been touched by their shark encounters: Mike Rutzen, South African shark expert, who swims with great whites in the aptly named Shark Alley; Chris Lowe, who has been tagging juvenile great whites off the coast of Los Angeles and discovering more and more of their secret life; and two record-breaking freedivers, Frederic Buyle and William Winram, who tag Great Whites by simply holding their breath and freediving with the sharks.

The film culminates in a direct encounter between man and shark.

Great White Shark concludes the oceanic trilogy begun by Wild Ocean and The Last Reef and brings nature's greatest predator to giant screens as never before... Run time: 45 min Rated G

Hidden Universe takes audiences on an extraordinary journey deep into space in the cinematic medium that transports audiences like no other. With the full power of IMAX cinematography, the deepest reaches of our universe are brought to life with unprecedented clarity through real images captured by the world's most powerful telescopes-seen on-screen. Stunning, high-resolution images of space allow moviegoers to explore the earliest galaxies, watch stars being born in vivid clouds of gas and dust, tour the surface of Mars, and witness images of distant celestial structures including stunning views of the Sun. These dramatic new images offer fresh insight into the origins and evolution of the universe. Run time: 40 min Rated G

Penguins celebrates the destiny of a very special King Penguin, who returns to his birthplace in the sub-Antarctic. Known as Penguin City, the island is home to hundreds of albatrosses, fur seals and brawling elephant seals - as well as six million penguins! Somehow our hero must earn his place among the island inhabitants and fulfill his destiny by finding a mate and raising a family.

What follows is the story of the most challenging time in a King Penguin's life, when he is driven to nurture and defent his offspring against harsh weather and fierce predators. This cosmic drama plays out in one of Earth's last great wildernesses, amid steep mountain ranges and windblown plains half buried beneath snow and ice. Penguins is an unforgetable tale of one King Penguin's journey through his species' central rite of passage. Run Time 39 min. Rated G

Film Festival - A virtual expedition that sends audiences careening down an icy, steep mountain face with snowboarders; twirling on thermals above the clouds with skysurfers; swimming through the oceans with otters and their surrogate human mother; excavating the very heart of a thirty-story tall Giant Sequoia with botanists and emerging from under the spray of one of California's biggest, surfable waves. Run Time 42 min. Rated G.

Film Festival - Horses are and always have been an essential part of mankind's development, culture and the history of human civilation. Our natural connection with and dependence on this most elegant and courageous animal is the stuff of both epic and historical fact through the ages. For literally thousands of years, horses have helped humanity evolve and grow.

Majestic White Horses will use as its centerpiece both the world's most famous horses, the Lippizans of Austria, and their home, the internationally famous Spanish Riding School of Vienna, but will also capture the heart and mystique of this great animal from the time of its youth to the crowning achievement of its entrance into the School. Run time 38 min. Rated G

Film Festival - When visiting Normandy nowadays, it's hard to imagine how these wonderful beaches running along the quiet countryside became, 70 years ago, hell on heart.

D-Day itself is a well-known event, yet only a few people know exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 until August 1944, this region in Western Europe became the most important place in the world.

D-Day: Normandy 1944 takes advantage of the giant screen in order to explain and show, in the most creative and impressive way, how the fate of the present-day world was decided, not only on D-Day but months, even years before; not only on the beaches of Normandy but everywhere in the world, especially in England and North America; not only by hundreds of thousands of soldiers but by civilians too...

From November 1943 to the end of August 1944, audiences will discover how these days changed the world. Rated G. Run Time 45 min.

Film Festival - Adrenaline Rush explores the innards of risk taking in a wide and spectacular way. From the "explosive" science and entrepreneurship of Alfred Nobel to a schoolboy's first day in class, from the boldness and determination of Henry Ford to the shy but affectionate sentiment of a teen for another, Adrenaline Rush brings us on a journey in the multidimensional world of resk, a world where progress of humankind or personal accomplishment aren't necessarily related to the scope or the nature of the endeavor.

Adrenaline Rush also teachers us that humanity can benefit from the unexpected and combined efforts of two very different resk takers whose minds meet across half a millennium and across theboundaries of the Old and New Worlds, as we witness the experiment of Leonaardo Da Vinci's notorious parachute by Adrian Nicholas, world's most respected skydiver and inventor in his own right, monitored closely by Salford scientists who seek answers on critical and life pertaining matters. Incidentally, Adrenaline Rush doesn't hesitate to explain scientific concepts in simple words.

From the soaring and breathtaking cliffs of Norway to the calm and inspiring immensity of the Mojave Desert, from Thomas Edison's laboratory to a simple American schoolyard, Adrenaline Rush is more than a thrilling visual experience, it's an invitation to explore our inner selves and a statement that there is no such thing as having little courage. Run Time 45 min. Rated G