Museum of Anthropology at UBC

Museum of Anthropology

The Museum of Anthropology at UBC from the west
Location in Vancouver
Established	1947
Location	6393 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates	49°16′10″N 123°15′35″W / 49.269366°N 123.259596°W / 49.269366; -123.259596
Type	First Nations culture
Visitors	189,661 (2016)[1]
Director	Dr. Susan Rowley
Website	moa.ubc.ca

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Major theorists Tim Asch Gregory Bateson Franz Boas Pierre Bourdieu John Collier Frances Densmore Robert J. Flaherty Robert Gardner Alfred Gell Robert Hugh Layton Claude Lévi-Strauss Alan Lomax John Marshall Margaret Mead Alan Merriam Bruno Nettl Hortense Powdermaker Jean Rouch David MacDougall
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The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada displays world arts and cultures, in particular works by First Nations of the Pacific Northwest.^[2] As well as being a major tourist destination, MOA is a research and teaching museum, where UBC courses in art, anthropology, archaeology, conservation, and museum studies are given. MOA houses close to 50,000 ethnographic objects, as well as 535,000 archaeological objects in its building alone.^[3]