The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia is at 6393 NW Marine Drive in Vancouver. The museum was founded in 1947, and its present building opened in 1976 to a design by Arthur Erickson. The concrete structure draws on the post-and-beam architecture of Northwest Coast First Nations peoples and uses Second World War gun emplacements.
Key features include the Great Hall, Bill Reid's sculpture The Raven and the First Men, and a reflecting pool added in 2010. A renewal from 2006 to 2010 added a research wing and the Audain Gallery. Stantec Architecture designed the Elspeth McConnell Gallery of 2017.
The museum holds close to 50,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects. It reopened on June 13, 2024, after a seismic upgrade.
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