Walking tour: Musqueam house posts and Indigenous art

Walking tour: Musqueam house posts and Indigenous art

June 20, 2025, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

We invite members of the Microbial Cell Systems for Sustainable Living (MCELLS) Research Cluster to deepen their understanding of the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Musqueam territory on which we learn, work, and play.
 
Join us Friday June 20 for a walking tour to visit Musqueam house posts and Indigenous art on UBC campus. The tour will start at 10:30 AM and will conclude with lunch provided by MCELLS at 12:30 PM. 
 
Our pathing is adapted from a guidebook titled “A walking tour of Musqueam House Posts at UBC” by Jordan Wilson. Jordan is a member of the Musqueam First Nation and his guidebook was first published by the Belkin Art Gallery during his time there as an intern curator in 2018 while he was a UBC graduate student.
 
As a research cluster studying land, food, air, and water systems to enable a future for sustainable living, it is especially important for us to set aside time outside the laboratory to gain a greater appreciation of the land we occupy and the community we are part of as a reminder of the purpose and impact of our work.
 
Throughout the walking tour we will be introduced to educational resources such as the X̱wi7x̱wa library and the Museum of Anthropology. We hope this tour will provide the basis for further discussions and learnings within MCELLS about what it means to thoughtfully engage with Indigenous histories and futures.
 
Event details:
On Friday June 20, we will meet at 10:30 AM outside Perugia Café at the Life Sciences Centre (https://g.co/kgs/VUa6u5x) to start the walking tour together and we will end at the UBC AHVA Gallery at 12:30 PM where we will have lunch as a cluster.
 
If you have dietary restrictions for lunch, please contact Nicholas Lin (nlin@sala.ubc.ca) and MCELLS will be happy to accommodate.
 
Accessibility considerations: This walking tour is designed to be casual. Almost all of it is on flat grounds with no steep incline and we will not leave the UBC campus. For reference, throughout the walk we will pass by 10 different locations across campus:
  1. Thunderbird Stadium
  2. Reconciliation Pole
  3. Faculty of Forestry building
  4. Orchard Commons Student Residence
  5. X̱wi7x̱wa Library
  6. Museum of Anthropology
  7. Peter Allard School of Law
  8. UBC Student Services building
  9. The Musqueam post by UBC Bookstore
  10. UBC AHVA Gallery
 
 
 
If you’d like to know more about how UBC more broadly is participating in Indigenous History Month, you can read more here: https://indigenous.ubc.ca/indigenous-engagement/musqueam-and-ubc/ and here: https://apsc.ubc.ca/indigenous-history-month

First Nations land acknowledegement

UBC’s Point Grey Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The land on which we work and learn has always been a place where Musqueam people for millennia have passed on their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next.

Microbial Cell Systems for Sustainable Living (MCELLS) Research Excellence Cluster

2350 Health Sciences Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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