Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia

• Main Author: Erickson, Arthur Charles
• Other Authors: Arthur Charles Erickson (Canadian architect, born 1924)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1971
• Subjects: architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Art museums; Native North Americans; First Nations people; Twentieth century; Canada; The Ramp; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/91322

Area adjacent to the Great Hall called the Ramp, showing totem poles from the mid-19th century from several Northwest Coast nations; Admirably related to its site is the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1971-1976), where the Northwest Coast post-and-beam structure [of First Nations people] is adapted into an expanding series of flat arches enclosed by glass walls. Visitors enter through a lower portal and descend, rather than ascend as is customary in museums, past successively larger display bays advancing towards the magnificent panorama of the Strait of Georgia, thereby participating in an interaction that is visual and also allegorical in its suggestion of descent through valleys to the sea. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 5/17/2009)