A Haft-sin table is now on display for Nowruz, the Iranian New Year.

Haft-sin tables are traditionally decorated with seven items – since seven is considered a lucky number. Each item begins with the letter sin (s) in Persian, and each item is a symbol of spring and renewal, including:

1. Seeb (apple), representing beauty
2. Seer (garlic), representing good health
3. Serkeh (vinegar), representing patience
4. Sonbol (hyacinth), representing spring
5. Samanu (sweet pudding), representing fertility
6. Sabzeh (sprouts), representing rebirth
7. Sekeh (coins), representing prosperity

Stop by MONOVA: Museum of North Vancouver to see what we have on our Haft-sin table this year!

Audience: All Ages

Campfire Capers: Outstanding Otters is a fun, 30-minute pre-school program about sea otters. We will sing a welcome song, read a story, do a paper craft, and look at a special museum object.

Audience: Children ages 2 to 5 and their caregivers.

Fun science activities for all ages. Test your knowledge of animal adaptations with a bird beak challenge the science of snow shoes.

Audience: All Ages

A Haft-sin table is now on display for Nowruz, the Iranian New Year.

Haft-sin tables are traditionally decorated with seven items – since seven is considered a lucky number. Each item begins with the letter sin (s) in Persian, and each item is a symbol of spring and renewal, including:

1. Seeb (apple), representing beauty
2. Seer (garlic), representing good health
3. Serkeh (vinegar), representing patience
4. Sonbol (hyacinth), representing spring
5. Samanu (sweet pudding), representing fertility
6. Sabzeh (sprouts), representing rebirth
7. Sekeh (coins), representing prosperity

Stop by MONOVA: Museum of North Vancouver to see what we have on our Haft-sin table this year!

Audience: All Ages

Campfire Capers: Outstanding Otters is a fun, 30-minute pre-school program about sea otters. We will sing a welcome song, read a story, do a paper craft, and look at a special museum object.

Audience: Children ages 2 to 5 and their caregivers.

Explore shipbuilding history on the North Shore, guess the mystery artifacts, take a Shipyard inspired selfie, examine historical photographs, and colour a picture of Shipyard Sal. You can also participate in our Shipyard Pals Geocache Adventure while you are in the Shipyards.

Audience: All Ages

A Haft-sin table is now on display for Nowruz, the Iranian New Year.

Haft-sin tables are traditionally decorated with seven items – since seven is considered a lucky number. Each item begins with the letter sin (s) in Persian, and each item is a symbol of spring and renewal, including:

1. Seeb (apple), representing beauty
2. Seer (garlic), representing good health
3. Serkeh (vinegar), representing patience
4. Sonbol (hyacinth), representing spring
5. Samanu (sweet pudding), representing fertility
6. Sabzeh (sprouts), representing rebirth
7. Sekeh (coins), representing prosperity

Stop by MONOVA: Museum of North Vancouver to see what we have on our Haft-sin table this year!

Audience: All Ages

Sensory Friendly Sundays offer neurodivergent individuals, their families and caregivers the ability to visit the museum on the first Sunday of every month. Visitors will enjoy a calm, relaxed atmosphere where they can take part in fun, safe activities.

Graciously supported by the Ames Family Foundation.

Audience: All Ages

Drop into our museum lobby to visit Streetcar 153 and hear stories from it’s colourful past. From the early days of public transit to WWII and the advent of buses and cars, our interpreter will introduce you to some of the people who worked on and rode the streetcars, and the impact they had on North Vancouver’s changing community.

Audience: All Ages

Learn more about the B.C. Electric Railway and our iconic Streetcar 153.

Audience: All Ages

A curated selection of short films and videos produced by MONOVA: Museum and Archives of North Vancouver.

Audience: All Ages

Learn more about the history of mountaineering, guess the mystery artifacts, and make a little hiker puppet.

Audience: All Ages

Create memories for generations to come during this scrapbooking drop-in program with Indigenous Cultural Programmer Tsawaysia Spukwus.

Relax, trigger your creative ideas, listen to music, chat with staff, and enjoy tea and refreshments while you scrapbook your personal photographs and memorabilia. Bring your pictures and creativity. All art supplies included.

Coast Salish programming is generously sponsored by BMO Financial Group.

Audience: All Ages

Campfire Capers is a fun, 30-minute preschool program. We’ll learn about Bears on Grouse through songs, stories, games and looking at a special museum object.

Audience: Children ages 2 to 5 and their caregivers.

How many plants indigenous to the North Shore do you know about?

Play the “Name that Plant” guessing game developed with Indigenous Cultural Programmers Senaqwila Wyss and Tsawaysia Spukwus.

Audience: All Ages

Campfire Capers is a fun, 30-minute preschool program. We’ll learn about Bears on Grouse through songs, stories, games and looking at a special museum object.

Audience: Children ages 2 to 5 and their caregivers.

Learn more about the B.C. Electric Railway and our iconic Streetcar 153.

Audience: All Ages

Drop in to our museum lobby to visit Streetcar 153 and hear stories from its colourful past. From the early days of public transit, to WWII and the advent of buses and cars, our costumed interpreter will introduce you to some of the people who worked on and rode the streetcars, and the impact they had on North Vancouver’s changing community.

Audience: All Ages

Explore shipbuilding history on the North Shore, guess the mystery artifacts, take a Shipyard inspired selfie, examine historical photographs, and colour a picture of Shipyard Sal. You can also participate in our Shipyard Pals Geocache Adventure while you are in the Shipyards.

Audience: All Ages

Come think and drink with Nerd Nite North Van, now hosted at the Museum of North Vancouver.

Each talk includes a fun, interactive question and answer period in a relaxed, pub-style atmosphere to meet other nerds who yearn to learn more about the amazing discoveries being made every day.

Tickets include admission to the Museum’s Permanent and Feature Galleries, along with some entertainingly nerdy presentations.

Thursday, April 13, 2023
Socializing 6:00 pm
Presentations 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Pay what you can ($20 suggested)

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

As part of MONOVA’s Researchers Reveal Speaker Series, join artist Nathan Lee for a talk about his work The Rookery, an open-source paper model diorama that explores the lives of 36 men of Chinese descent who lived and worked at the North Shore’s first settler community of Moodyville.

In 1889, a “Chinese Rookery” was located on the lowlands of the site nearest the exit chute of the mill. Little is known about the lives and working conditions of the people that lived here.

The model is an interpretation of the site conditions based on the available archival information. Find out about Nathan’s research in the Archives of North Vancouver (3203 Institute Road) and about his process of reconstructing the narrative of the Chinese community at Moodyville.

Refreshments will be available, and after the talk visitors will be welcome to stay and tour the Archives with staff.

The
Shipyards in Lower Lonsdale has emerged as one of the most memorable neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver. How was this accomplished?

Join Sheryl Rivers, Richard White and Gary Penway for a discussion on the evolution of The Shipyards. Sheryl Rivers will speak to the First Nations presence, and Richard White and Gary Penway will discuss City of North Vancouver planning efforts that occurred, what went right, what went wrong and what is still to come.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
$20 General Admission, $12 Museum Pass holders, Friends Leadership Circle and
Indigenous

The Connections Speaker Series is generously supported by the Port of Vancouver.

Drop in to our museum lobby to visit Streetcar 153 and hear stories from its colourful past. From the early days of public transit, to WWII and the advent of buses and cars, our costumed interpreter will introduce you to some of the people who worked on and rode the streetcars, and the impact they had on North Vancouver’s changing community.

Audience: All Ages

FREE movie nights…with popcorn, a cash bar, trivia, prizes and more!

View North Vancouver through the lens of this monthly series of feature films and local works filmed all or mostly in North Vancouver! Created for young adults ages 19 to 35 in mind but is open to all adults.

Create memories for generations to come during this scrapbooking drop-in program with Indigenous Cultural Programmer Tsawaysia Spukwus.

Relax, trigger your creative ideas, listen to music, chat with staff, and enjoy tea and refreshments while you scrapbook your personal photographs and memorabilia. Bring your pictures and creativity. All art supplies included.

Coast Salish programming is generously sponsored by BMO Financial Group.

More information at www.monova.ca…