If you have the time, the museum is definitely worth a visit. But even just visiting the museum grounds, admiring the long houses and the view, is worth it. VancouverPlanner has some good info about the Museum of Anthropology.
The grounds behind the museum feature two Haida Houses and six poles created between 1960 and 1962 by the late Haida artist Bill Reid and 'Namgis artist Doug Cranmer.
Constructed between 1958 and 1962, the Haida Village at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver stands today as an impressive showcase of Haida-style poles carved by Bill Reid with the assistance of Kwakwaka’wakw artist Doug Cranmer (1927–2006).
The Haida Village includes a large family dwelling, a smaller mortuary chamber, and examples of interior, frontal, and mortuary poles. It was first installed at Totem Park, at the west end of the University of British Columbia’s campus, and was relocated in 1978 to be near the newly built Museum of Anthropology, which opened in 1980. In 2000 Reid’s House Frontal Pole was moved indoors for preservation and replaced with the Respect to Bill Reid Pole carved by Jim Hart (7idansuu, b.1952). [from: Life and Work by Gerald McMaster]
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