The report outlines the museum's activities and finances for the previous fiscal year, including listing staff, attendance figures, acquisitions, exhibitions, educational activities, public programming, events, loans, research projects, and publications of the museum and its staff. It includes descriptions of the artist in residence, 2012 Native Youth Program, and updates from the Audrey & Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives, Reciprocal Research Network (RRN) and the Laboratory of Archaeology (LOA). Other topics include the First Nations initiatives, Canadian Conservation Institute workshop on wet-site basketry, and a grant to support Asian research and curation.