Museums in Vancouver

The Museum of Vancouver explores the city's history from its origins as unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory through colonial settlement to its present-day identity. It occupies a distinctive crab-shaped building in Vanier Park.

The Vancouver Art Gallery is the fifth-largest art gallery in Canada, housed in a 1906 neoclassical former courthouse designed by Francis Rattenbury. It holds more than 12,000 works with a particular strength in the paintings of Emily Carr.

The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia is one of the world's finest collections of Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous art and artifacts. Designed by Arthur Erickson in 1976, the striking post-and-beam concrete-and-glass building mirrors traditional Haida construction.

Science World at TELUS World of Science is a hands-on science museum housed inside the iconic geodesic dome built as the Expo Centre for Expo 86. Its distinctive illuminated sphere on False Creek is one of Vancouver's most recognizable landmarks.

The Vancouver Maritime Museum in Vanier Park celebrates the maritime heritage of the Pacific Coast and the Arctic. Its centrepiece is the St. Roch, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner that was the first vessel to navigate the Northwest Passage in both directions.

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum at UBC houses over two million natural history specimens and is centred around a spectacular suspended 25-metre blue whale skeleton—the largest in Canada.

The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre is a space-science facility in Vanier Park featuring a planetarium, interactive galleries, and live science demonstrations. It shares its domed building with the Museum of Vancouver.