Best Free Museums In Vancouver Near Me

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"One of the best museums in VANCOUVER!"

Business: MOV | The Museum of Vancouver. Canada’s premier civic history museum. Permanent galleries, exhibitions, events, French and English educational programs.

4worldlovers: After thirteen years and twenty-one exhibitions, rennie museum announces our final presentation in the historic Wing Sang building. The exhibition opens August 13 and concludes October 29, 2022.

Featuring fifty-one artworks by thirty-six prominent artists from A(bdessemed) to Y(iadom-Boakye), the farewell exhibition breaks the museum’s self-imposed rule of not titling its shows. 51 @ 51 references the number of artworks in the exhibit as well as the address of the museum—51 East Pender Street. Read the full press release here.

Timed-entry tickets for self-guided visits will be released on August 5. Tickets are released in two-week blocks, every two weeks. Sign up for our newsletter to receive notifications of when new tickets are released.

Rennie museum is proud to share that Bob Rennie and his family’s historic landmark in Vancouver’s Chinatown, the Wing Sang building, will soon be home to the first Chinese Canadian Museum in the country. In a press conference held on February 11th, Premier John Horgan and the Hon. Melanie Mark, BC’s Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport announced the provincial government will provide funding to the Chinese Canadian Museum Society of British Columbia to acquire the building, with additional support by Bob himself. “The rennie foundation will donate a leadership gift of $7,800,000 to ensure the Chinese Canadian Museum is sustainable in its mission”, Bob said following Minister Mark’s remarks. Read the full press release here.

Help support arts education through the Artists in Residence Studio (AIRS) Program with your purchase of a Kerry James Marshall printed, luxury cashmere scarf.

“The ‘Art room’ is one of the few creative safe spaces left where a child cannot be judged or be wrong, especially today where the pressure of “perfection” is demanded in our technological world. The Art room is a place where a papier-mache bird can have three legs and one eye, or where the sun can set in the east.”

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"great museum, wish they would expand it."

4worldlovers: Unleash your inner detective, crack codes, and find a hidden cargo in our thrilling prohibition escape room!

Enter for a chance to win a trip to the Chadian Arctic for two!

Business: Since 1990, the Roedde House Preservation Society has taken painstaking care to restore and furnish Roedde House to reflect the ambience of late-Victorian

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Entry to the Museum is through the front door (ring the old fashion doorbell).

Open Hours are 1pm to 4pm Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.


Tourism Challenge takes place Apr 22 – May 31 2023, during this time the Museum will provide admission by donation and tours will be self guided.

Please be aware the Museum will be closed for tours on Friday May 19th 2023 in preparation for our Magic in the Moonlight Market.

Since 1990, the Roedde House Preservation Society has taken painstaking care to restore and furnish Roedde House to reflect the ambience of late-Victorian family life through the eyes of the Roedde family. Feel free to walk into every room, get close to artefacts, and experience what life was like for the Roedde family in the late 19th century!

Take a virtual tour, listen to our podcast, or follow our photo tour. Ideal for schools and community groups.

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"Highly recommend the free museum tour."

Business: Welcome to the Museum of Anthropology, a place of world arts and cultures with a special emphasis on the First Nations peoples and other cultural communities of British Columbia, Canada.

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"One of the best City Museum ive ever seen!"

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Explore stories of entrepreneurship, resilience, and intergenerational lessons through two exhibitions at our location in Vancouver Chinatown. “Seeds to Success: Story of the H.Y. Louie Family” and “A Tale of Two Families” on view until the end of May 2023.

Chinese Canadian Museum’s new temporary exhibition site in the historic Fan Tan Alley of Victoria Chinatown features two exhibitions: “First Steps: Chinese Canadian Journeys in Victoria” and “Gold Mountain Dream!”

Business: The Vancouver Police Museum is one of Vancouver's best museums! Enter our authentic heritage building and explore popular true crime and city history exhibits, or discover rare artefacts, documents and rooms—including the former city morgue and autopsy suite!

Business: The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre - To educate, inspire, and evoke a sense of wonder about the universe, our planet, and space exploration. Canada's Premiere Space Centre located in Vancouver, British Columbia