Prospective Students
Prospective students and their families can go to the Undergraduate Programs and Admissions website or contact Student Recruitment & Advising by phone at 604.822.2699 or by email at ubc.tours@ubc.ca for a tour that includes information on academics and student life.
Visitors
The Summer Campus Tours for tourists and other community guests that were previously based in the Studeent Union Building (SUB) are no longer offered.
Tour Information for UBC Attractions
A UBC Attractions Map is available.
Museum of Anthropology
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 .
Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research
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.
Greenheart Canopy Walkway at UBC Botanical Garden
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.
Nitobe Memorial Garden
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.
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
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 fromhttp://www.belkin.ubc.ca/outdoor/. For more information, dates, and times call 604.822.3640 or naomi.sawada@ubc.ca.
Chan Centre
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.
Pacific Museum of the Earth
The Pacific Museum of the Earth offers 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 the PME Outreach Coordinator at pme@eos.ubc.ca or call 604.822.6992 for more details or to book a visit.
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
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.
UBC Sustainability
Sustainability tours at UBC are a great way to see sustainability in action. There is a self-guided Sustainability Walking Tour, or you can request a guided Green Building Tour, for a behind-the-scenes look at specific green buildings. .
Campus & Community Planning Self-Guided Walking Tours of UTown@UBC
Campus and Community Planning offers four self-guided walking tours of UBC’s different neighborhoods, each focusing on a different region of campus and highlighting attractions, housing and community amenities in UTown@UBC, UBC’s vibrant residential community. The maps and brochures are available though the Campus & Community Planning website.