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• September 25, 1991 - January 26, 1992 (Gallery 10)
• This exhibition of the Dene was also organized by the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, N.W.T. The 25 black and white photographs in the show have been chosen from the Native Press Collection and curated by Dene photographer Dorothy Chocolate.

• April 20 – July 3, 2011 (Satellite Gallery, 560 Seymour)
• Through singing drums, family heirlooms, a talking basket, and cups of tea, artist Peter Morin sets the idea of the museum on the kitchen table. Peter Morin’s Museum weaves together familiar practices of museum display with a series of performances and an evolving installation to create a space in which to share Tahltan knowledge. As elements of the “museum” change and transform over time, visitors are invited to reflect on history, objects, and places of connection. Peter Morin, of the Tahltan Nation of northern British Columbia, is a Victoria-based performance artist. His ideas about museums and their transformation through indigenous ways of knowing began in his cousin’s cabin, where visits with friends, relatives, and elders offered him a gradual understanding of Tahltan history and means of sharing it with one another. For this exhibition, Peter locates the table—the place of gathering, of Tahltan sovereignty, of his grandmothers’ knowledge—within the space of an urban gallery. There are objects in cases and on the walls: family photos, precious tools, images of Tahltan territory, video, and drums painted with the songs they have sung. Just as visual access to these elements will change through their wrapping and unwrapping over the course of the exhibition, so too will visitors’ relationships to the work as the artist reveals his stories.

• April 30 – June 1991

• June 21, 2003 - May 9, 2004
• This major exhibition focused on the Museum’s founding collection. It was shown at MOA for a year, and then travelled for two more years to venues across Canada. Comprising more than 100 objects from Micronesia, Polynesia, and Melanesia, the exhibit was enhanced by historical and contemporary photographs, and documentation amassed first by the collector and one hundred years later by MOA curator Dr. Carol Mayer.

Use for: Renewal Project, Partnership of the Peoples

• Museum renovations that took place between 2006 and 2010, funded in large part by a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant named Partnership of Peoples that was awarded to the Museum of Anthropology in 2007. Renovations included a new research wing, new offices, laboratories, a culturally sensitive research room, recording studio, and a new exhibition hall (The Audain Gallery). Other enhancements included MOA's new Multiversity Galleries, the creation of the Reciprocal Research Network (RRN), expansion of the Museum Shop, a new cafe, and courtyard and outdoor events area.

• July 24 - September 29, 2013
• July 24 – August 31, 2013 (Satellite Gallery)
• The Pacific Islands occupy a place in the Western imagination as a paradise filled with idyllic beaches and lush, tropical landscapes inhabited by dusky maidens. With historical precedents in the accounts of European explorers, these perceptions were later re-invented and popularized by Hollywood films in the 1920s through the ’50s. Contemporary artists from the Pacific Islands frequently play with and invert such perceptions, and their work provides an alternate, more complex vision of the region. Paradise Lost?: Contemporary Works from the Pacific features works by artists from Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. Working in video, installation, sculpture, painting, and photography, the artists show the Pacific Islands from an insider’s perspective. Their artworks explore environmental concerns, cultural heritage issues, questions relating to the experience of migration and diaspora, and the intersection of Indigenous belief systems and Western religions. The artists featured are George Nuku, Te Rongo Kirkwood, Greg Semu, Pax Jakupa Jr., Michael Timbin, Tom Deko, Cathy Kata, Shigeyuki Kihara, Ralph Regenvanu, Rosanna Raymond, Moses Jobo, Eric Natuoivi, and David Ambong. Curated by Dr. Carol Mayer (Curator, Africa/Pacific), and organized to coincide with the Pacific Arts Association Symposium at MOA, the exhibition will feature works displayed throughout MOA’s public spaces and at our downtown Satellite Gallery.

• March 3 - September 30, 2009 (Lobby)
• This magnificent panel by Coast Salish artist John Marston was accompanied by excerpts from “Killer Whale and Crocodile,” a documentary about John’s journey to Papua New Guinea, where he met and was inspired by Sepik carver Teddy Balangu to carve this work. Curatorial liaison Carol Mayer, Curator, Africa/Pacific.

• 1964

• July 4 - November 2, 1986 (Theatre Gallery)
• This exhibition presented a selection of twelve portrait photographs of Indian elders accompanied by quotes and short biographies.

• August 17, 1990 - June 30, 1991
• This exhibition will consist of some 50 framed prints of David Neel’s portraits of B.C. Native Chiefs and Elders. Included with the portraits are statements made by the sitters and selected by the artist.

• July 1982

• Through May 13, 2001 (Lobby)
• As part of their “Topics in World Ceramics” course at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, students in MOA curator Dr. Carol Mayer’s class have created and installed original ceramic pieces themed to words they chose to describe themselves. In this unusual display, the words “Extreme,” “Sensitive,” “Articulate,” “Determined,” and “Creative” describe not only the students’ sense of self, but also the works they have created.