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• April 8, 2004 - August 1, 2005
• Student exhibition: Students of Anthropology 431 are developing an exhibition of photographs that examine why we create sacred places and spaces in our urban environment. They identify locations that might be permanent or transitory, formal or informal, public or private, real or imagined, built or natural.

Use for: Squamish

• September 18, 2013 - May 11, 2014 (The O'Brian Gallery)
• Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael's Residential School grew out of a unique opportunity to present the personal experiences of First Nations children who attended St. Michael's Indian Residential School at Alert Bay, British Columbia. During the late 1930s, one student at the school had a camera and photographed many of her friends and classmates there. She recently donated these images to the Museum of Anthropology’s archive. The photos provide a rare and moving glimpse of residential school life through the eyes of students as they made a life for themselves away from families and home communities. St. Michael’s Indian Residential School operated from 1929 to 1974, and its now-empty building is in deteriorating condition. With the support of the U'mista Cultural Centre (UCC) and the 'Namgis First Nation at Alert Bay, MOA curator Bill McLennan was permitted to enter the building and photograph its interior spaces where the children had lived and worked. The resulting images, together with those of the students, are featured in Speaking to Memory, an exhibition jointly produced by McLennan and the UCC’s director Sarah Holland and curator Juanita Johnston. In Alert Bay, Speaking to Memory hangs around the exterior of the St. Michael’s school building, located beside the cultural centre. At MOA, the exhibition is presented in our O’Brian Gallery. The large photographic panels depict the interior rooms of the school as they now appear, overlaid with historical images of the children. Accompanying the images are personal statements from former students of St. Michael's school, recalling their experiences there. Quotations from a variety of sources express the Canadian government's rationale for Indian residential schools, while excerpts from the 1996 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples recognize the devastating impact of the schools. In addition, one "artifact" is featured in MOA’s exhibit: the institutional food-mixing machine, recently salvaged from the school’s kitchen. The Indian residential school system was implemented in 1879 by the Canadian government to eliminate the "Indian problem"—that is, to absorb the Aboriginal population into the dominant Canadian identity, and to impose Christianity, English or French as the primary languages, and the abandonment of cultural and family traditions. St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay was one of 140 Indian residential schools that operated in Canada.

Use for: Events, special

• May 8, 1982 - January 2, 1983 (Theatre Gallery)

Use for: Religous leaders

• February 15, 1995 – October 19, 1997
• Student exhibition: As a final project, students enrolled in the course “Ethnography of South Asia” mounted five exhibits on Indian religion and culture, with themes ranging from the epic Ramayana to contemporary Punjabi family values. Their exhibits can be seen in the Theatre Gallery and in Visible Storage.

Use for: Lillooet, Stl'atl'imx

Use for: St'at'imcets

Use for: Sto:lo, Stó:lô, Stó:lõ, Staulo, Stahlo

Use for: Stoney, Nakoda

Use for: Shops, Retail stores