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After a trip into the gallery to learn about Stonehenge, students will deepen their understanding of this ancient place by following step-by-step instructions to create a landscape and then a stone megalith (in miniature).

Are you interested in researching your family history in British Columbia but unsure where to start? Discover the many investigative tools and resources the BC Archives offers, and find out how much fun it can be to build your family tree. In this workshop, learn to use our genealogy database as well as our general collections catalogue to trace your family roots in British Columbia.

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Your donations help fund museum operations from collections and research to the digitization of archive photographs, conservation of fossils and artifacts, run learning programs and more. We deeply value your support and generosity.

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Become a museum member and indulge your curiosity in our immersive galleries, engage your mind through our variety of programs, and learn about BC's rich history all for one low annual fee.

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Become a museum member and indulge your curiosity in our immersive galleries, engage your mind through our variety of programs, and learn about BC's rich history all for one low annual fee.

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Get more out of your IMAX® Victoria experience with an annual pass! Purchase or renew an IMAX® Annual Pass.

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E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL is Steven Spielberg’s warm-hearted classic delight for both children and adults. It tells the story of an alien creature, E.T., mistakenly left behind on Earth. When a young boy, Elliott (Henry Thomas), finds E.T. and hides him in his home, both their worlds are changed forever. E.T. teaches Elliott and his two siblings (Drew Barrymore and Robert MacNaughton), whose parents have recently separated, about caring and love while the children protect E.T. from the malevolent world of grown-ups. Elliott and E.T. become so close that they share emotions; as E.T. becomes ill, so does Elliott. The children end up going on a fabulous adventure trying to help E.T. find a way back to his home planet.

Run time 115min. CC. Rated PG.
October 11-13, 17, 2024

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Run Time: 2hrs 24min, CC. Rating 18A.
October 18-20, 24

Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it’s only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.

Run Time: 1hr 45min, CC. Rating 14A
October 25-27, 31

Although they could not be conscripted, when World War II was declared, thousands of Indigenous Canadian men and women enlisted and fought alongside their non-Indigenous countrymen. Ironically, they fought for freedom for others while being denied equality in their own country. As a reward for fighting, the Canadian Soldier Veteran's Settlement Act allowed returning soldiers to buy land at a cheap price. However, many of the Indigenous soldiers were never offered nor told about the land entitlement. Some returned home to find the government had seized parts of their own reserve land to compensate non-Indigenous war veterans. Whole First Nations communities still mourn the loss of the thousands of acres of prime land they were forced to surrender. With narrator Gordon Tootoosis providing an historical overview, Indigenous veterans poignantly share their unforgettable war memories and their healing process. We join them as they travel back to Europe to perform a sacred circle for friends left behind, but not forgotten, in foreign grave sites.

Run time 51 minutes. Rated G.

Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in. The film’s ensemble cast includes Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy and Barry Keoghan, with Kenneth Branagh (“My Week with Marilyn,” “Hamlet,” “Henry V”), Cillian Murphy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy), Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies,” “Wolf Hall”) and Tom Hardy (“The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Inception”).

Following his use of IMAX cameras in The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar, Christopher Nolan designed Dunkirk for IMAX – capturing a large portion of the film with IMAX’s 15perf 65m film cameras, the highest-resolution cameras in the world. Exclusively in IMAX theatres, scenes shot with this camera will expand to fill the entire screen, allowing moviegoers to see up to 40% more of the image with unprecedented crispness, clarity and color saturation for a truly immersive experience.

Run Time: 1hr, 47min, CC, Rating PG.
November 8-10, 14

Special Q&A after film on October 16 - In celebration of its 5th Anniversary, the box office hit Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, is returning to theaters with an enhanced experience in Fantastic Fungi Remastered, which offers audiences an unparalleled viewing experience with enhanced visuals and sound, allowing viewers to immerse themselves fully in the breathtaking beauty and awe-inspiring wonder of the fungal kingdom. Narrated by Brie Larson, Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.

Run Time: 1hr 20min, CC. Not Rated: Please note that this film discusses the medicinal and recreational use of certain types of mushrooms.

October 16, 20

Much of life on Earth is connected by a vast, hidden network that we are only just beginning to understand. Out of sight, between the world of plants and animals, another world exists - the kingdom of fungi.

Run time 41min. CC. Rated G.