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The quest to fly like a bird, unaided by machine has captured the imagination of humankind as long as we have been gazing upon the world’s natural flyers. Wingsuit flight provides us with the chance to experience what it would be like to fly like a bird. Along with the world’s top wingsuit flyers and with the help of ever evolving wingsuit technology, audiences will be able to take flight from the highest points in Europe, soar over landscapes in Moab that resemble Mars, fly above the Great Barrier Reef and then land on it. The film will feature incredible footage from POV helmet cameras, drones, and specially designed helicopter rigs. From 18000 feet, we will also dive off into principles of flight, aerodynamics and materials engineering.

Run time 45min. Rated G.

Explore the Wonders of the World's Greatest Machine! Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels explores the inner workings of the human body and the incredible breakthroughs in science and bioengineering that are changing the course of human health. Told through the inspiring stories of the people behind these groundbreaking innovations, Superhuman Body will inspire you, move you and empower you  you'll be amazed what your superhuman body can do!

Run time 40min. Not Rated

Explore the Wonders of the World's Greatest Machine! Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels explores the inner workings of the human body and the incredible breakthroughs in science and bioengineering that are changing the course of human health. Told through the inspiring stories of the people behind these groundbreaking innovations, Superhuman Body will inspire you, move you and empower you – you'll be amazed what your superhuman body can do!

Run time 40min. Not Rated

Imagine stepping 50 years into the future and finding smart cities designed to be totally sustainable. Renewable energy is our primary power source, space-based solar power provides solar energy 24 hours a day, everything is recycled, and you travel in individualized pods that run on little or no energy. This isn´t science fiction. Engineers are making plans for a sustainable world right now, and it's coming to the giant screen!

Run time 40min. CC. Rated G.

Imagine stepping 50 years into the future and finding smart cities designed to be totally sustainable. Renewable energy is our primary power source, space-based solar power provides solar energy 24 hours a day, everything is recycled, and you travel in individualized pods that run on little or no energy. This isn’t science fiction. Engineers are making plans for a sustainable world right now, and it’s coming to the giant screen!

Run time 40min. CC. Rated G.

Jane Goodall - Reasons for Hope, is an uplifting journey around the globe to highlight good news stories that will inspire people to make a difference in the world around them. Jane revolutionized how we view the world around us. Join her on this adventure of inspiration and hope.

Run time 45min. CC. Rated G.

See the film, experience the exhibition. Immerse yourself in the experience with an IMAX® and exhibition combo ticket!

Special French Screening of A Beautiful Planet - A bord de la Station Spatiale Internationale, la planète Terre prend une autre dimension et la vie un autre sens. Les spectateurs de La Géode deviennent les occupants provisoires de l’ISS. Astronautes émerveillés,fascinés et pensifs en regardant la Terre, ils partagent l’expérience de leurs alter ego à 350 km d’altitude, imaginant alors vivre les conditions extrêmes de leur séjour… pendant 47 minutes, intenses, en immersion totale au sein de la thermosphère et dans la station spatiale.

Run Time 47 min. Rated G

See the film, experience the exhibition. Immerse yourself in the experience with an IMAX® and exhibition combo ticket!

Special Screening - Journey to a land of grizzlies, coastal wolves, sea otters and the all-white spirit bear - the rarest bear on earth - in the film Great Bear Rainforest. Hidden from the outside world, the Great Bear Rainforest is one of the wildest places left on earth. Found on Canada's remote Pacific coast, it is the last intact temperate rainforest in the world - a place protected by the region's indigenous people for millennia. Now, for the first time ever, experience this magical world in IMAX and giant screen theatres, and discover the land of the spirit bear.

Run time 41min. CC. Rated G.

See the film, experience the exhibition. Immerse yourself in the experience with an IMAX® and exhibition combo ticket!

Available for scheduled feature films on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

See the film, experience the exhibition. Immerse yourself in the experience with an IMAX® and exhibition combo ticket!

Available for scheduled 3D feature films on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Get more out of your Royal BC Museum and IMAX® Victoria experience with a Family Combo Pass!

Get more out of your Royal BC Museum and IMAX® Victoria experience with a Combo Pass!

Special Screening - The monarch butterfly is a true marvel of nature. Weighing less than a penny, it makes one of the longest migrations on Earth across a continent to a place it has never known.

Follow the monarchs' perilous journey and join hundreds of millions of real butterflies in the remote mountain peaks of Mexico. With breathtaking cinematography, be captivated by the true and compelling story of an intrepid scientist's 40-year search to find the monarchs secret hideaway. Unravel the mysteries and experience the Flight of the Butterflies..

Run time 45min. CC. Rated G.

Target Audience: Grade k-12

Spend an hour with a museum educator in the Natural History gallery and focus on a related subject of your choice. Anything from insects, life in a tidepool, changing climates to adaptations in a rainforest.

Target audience: K-12
Tuesday's at 1:00pm

Select from one of our French themes for your digital visit: Rencontrez le mammouth (Meet the Mammoth) or Ruée vers l'or en Colombie-Britannique (Gold Rush of BC)

Target audience: K-3
Tuesdays at 9:30am, Thursdays at 1:00pm

Plants and animals have features (body parts) and behaviours that help them survive. These are called adaptations. Learn about some BC animals and the amazing ways they survive and thrive in our local environments through this visit to the natural history gallery.

Target audience: Grade K-2
Thursdays at 11:30am

Explore the different ways dinosaurs used their bodies to survive in their habitats millions of years ago. Through the inspection of plant and dinosaur fossils, students will discover how dinosaurs found food and interacted with their environments. They'll even learn how animals on earth now give us clues about how dinosaurs looked and behaved.

Target audience: Grade 4 (can be adapted for adult audience)
Tuesdays at 2:00pm, Thursdays at 10:30am

In 1858, when gold was discovered in the Fraser River, what is now known as British Columbia became a destination for hopeful miners from around the world. For every gold seeker who rushed here, there were factors that drove them from their homelands and dreams that enticed to a new and foreign place. The impacts of the gold rush on British Columbia were large, and lasting.