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Thank you for your interest in UBC Summer Campus Tours. Our guided walking tours for tourists are now finished for the 2011 season. Tours will be offered again in 2012 during our regular season from May to August. In the meantime, please refer to the QUICKFIND links on the right side of the page for information on UBC Attractions, Events, Maps and Parking.
Prospective students and their families can join us for walking tours. Our Student Ambassadors will proudly show you places of interest while providing fun facts and information about living and learning at UBC. Tours are offered year-round at both UBC’s Vancouver campus and UBC’s Okanagan campus .
A UBC Attractions Map is available.
The Museum of Anthropology offers both group and self-guided tours. Call 604.822.5087 for more information and tour times. Guided group tours are eligible for a group admission rate and a custom tour. To book a guided group tour or to find out about school programs for elementary and secondary school students, contact the Booking Coordinator at 604.822.3825 or bookings@moa.ubc.ca .
The UBC Botanical Garden offers free guided tours, group tours and/or class visits. Call 604.822.4208 for more information. Two weeks’ notice is required, and group rates are available.
The Greenheart Canopy Walkway at UBC Botanical Garden offers fully guided tours daily on the hour from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Perfect for school groups and offers specialized programming to suit grade specific curriculum. Tour groups and conference groups are also welcome. For further information call 1.888.755.3227.
To book a free guided tour of the Nitobe Garden, call 604.822.4208. Two weeks’ notice is required. More information about admission prices and the gardens can be found by visiting www.nitobe.org.
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery offers free guided tours of its current exhibition and selected works from the University of British Columbia’s Outdoor Art Collection. Tours must be booked in advance and the maximum number in a group is 25 people. The Outdoor Art Collection includes over 24 works of art that are located throughout the UBC campus. The tour varies in length from 1 hour — to see works near the Belkin — to 3 hours for every site on the map. A self-guided walking tour can be downloaded from http://www.belkin.ubc.ca/outdoor/. For more information, dates, and times call 604.822.3640 or naomi.sawada@ubc.ca.
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts boasts three unique venues: the superb Chan Shun Concert Hall; the flexible Telus Studio Theatre; and the intimate Royal Bank Cinema. For tours of the Chan Centre, contact Kristi Fuoco at kristi.fuoco@ubc.ca or call 604.822.1241.
The Pacific Museum of the Earth offers three programs to help schools, summer camps, and the general public learn about our planet. Programs include guided tours, a mineral properties workshop, and a rock identification workshop. All programming is free of charge and scheduled by appointment. Contact Mackenzie Parker at pme@eos.ubc.ca or call 604.822.6992 for more details or to book a visit.
The Barber Learning Centre offers tours for current and prospective donors, interested people from the community, former Library workers, esteemed guests from other universities, etc. For more information, call 604.822.3310, email glenn.drexhage@ubc.ca , or visit www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca.
The UBC sustainability office offers a self-guided tour of the eco-friendly buildings on campus. Highlights of this tour include the C.K. Choi Building, and the recently built LEED certified gold Life Science Centre. The map of the tour can be found at: http://www.sustain.ubc.ca/pdfs/sustain_map.pdf .
Campus and Community Planning offers self-guided tours of UBC’s different neighborhoods. Three different tours are offered, each focusing on a different region of campus. Tours offered include the South Campus Tour; the Lower, West and Main Mall tour; and the Chancellor Place Neighbourhood Tour. The map and brochure for this tour are still in their draft phase.
Email: campus.tours@ubc.ca
Web: www.tours.ubc.ca
Twitter: @ubctours
The Summer Campus Tours booth/information desk is now closed until May 2011 (view map).
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