Museum of Vancouver

Founded in 1894, the Museum of Vancouver is the city’s oldest museum and a major civic history institution in Vanier Park. It grew from an early collection assembled by the Art, Historical, and Scientific Association of Vancouver, moved into the Carnegie Library in 1905, and into its current Gerald Hamilton-designed building in 1968, part of the complex shared with the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. Its holdings now include about 80,000 objects, among them significant First Nations material and Egyptian antiquities. Over time, it has shifted from eclectic collecting toward a more reflective role focused on Vancouver’s history, Indigenous collaboration, repatriation, and community connection.

British Columbia · Canada