This list of museums in British Columbia

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Name	Town/City	Regional District Regional districts of British Columbia The Canadian province of British Columbia is divided into regional districts. Like counties in other parts of Canada, regional districts serve only to provide municipal services as the local government in areas not incorporated into a municipality, and in certain regional affairs of shared concern...	Type	Summary
3 Valley Gap Heritage Ghost Town	Three Valley Gap Three Valley Gap, British Columbia Three Valley Gap is an unincorporated settlement and small resort and heritage-themed amusement park on the Trans-Canada Highway located on and adjacent to the lake of the same name, southwest of Revelstoke just west of the summit of Eagle Pass...	Columbia-Shuswap	Open air	website, includes over 25 historic buildings, antique automobile museum, railway roundhouse, mining company, wagon and buggy shop
5th (BC) Regiment Museum	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Military	website, history of coast artillery and associated units from 1861 to the present day
12 Service Battalion Museum	Richmond Richmond, British Columbia Richmond is a coastal city, incorporated in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Part of Metro Vancouver, its neighbouring communities are Vancouver and Burnaby to the north, New Westminster to the east, and Delta to the south, while the Strait of Georgia forms its western border...	Metro Vancouver	Military	website
83 Mile House Farm Equipment Museum and Historic Site	70 Mile House 70 Mile House, British Columbia 70 Mile House is situated on Highway 97 in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. Its name is derived from its distance from Lillooet, which was Mile 0 of the Old Cariboo Road. Other examples of towns named by their distance from Lillooet on the Old Cariboo Road are 93 Mile House, 100 Mile...	Cariboo	Multiple	website, antique horse-drawn farm equipment, wagons, carriages, buggies, tools, household items and more
108 Heritage Site	108 Mile Ranch 108 Mile Ranch, British Columbia 108 Mile Ranch is a residential community of 700 homes situated in the South Cariboo region of British Columbia located in a historic area of ranches and lakes.Historically, en route to the great Cariboo Gold Rush, a few of the travellers settled here....	Cariboo	Open air	website
Agassiz-Harrison Museum	Agassiz Agassiz, British Columbia Agassiz is a small community located in British Columbia's Fraser Valley. The only town within the jurisdiction of the District Municipality of Kent, it contains the majority of Kent's population.-References:...	Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²...	History	information
Akerman Museum	Saltspring Island Saltspring Island Saltspring Island is one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia between mainland British Columbia, Canada and Vancouver Island. It is the largest, the most populous, and the most frequently visited of the Gulf Islands...	Capital	History	website, pioneer and native artifacts
Alaska Highway House	Dawson Creek Dawson Creek, British Columbia Dawson Creek is a small city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The municipality of had a population of 11,529 in 2009. Dawson Creek derives its name from the creek of the same name that runs through the community. The creek was named after George Mercer Dawson by a member of his land...	Peace River	History	information, history and technology of the construction of the Alaska Highway Alaska Highway The Alaska Highway was constructed during World War II for the purpose of connecting the contiguous U.S. to Alaska through Canada. It begins at the junction with several Canadian highways in Dawson Creek, British Columbia and runs to Delta Junction, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon...
Alberni Valley Museum	Port Alberni Port Alberni, British Columbia Port Alberni is a city located in the province of British Columbia in Canada. It is the location of the head offices of the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District. The city has a total population of 17,743, and the census agglomeration area a total of 25,396....	Metro Vancouver	History	website, local history and culture, including collection of First Nations artifacts
Alder Grove Telephone Museum	Aldergrove Aldergrove, British Columbia Aldergrove is a small town within the jurisdiction of the The Township of Langley, a municipality within Greater Vancouver. Located at the southeastern edge of both Langley and Greater Vancouver, and nearby to the metropolitan area of Abbotsford, British Columbia just east, Aldergrove has a...	Metro Vancouver	Technology	website, operated by the Alder Grove Heritage Society, historic telephone switching equipment
Alert Bay Public Library & Museum	Alert Bay Alert Bay, British Columbia Alert Bay is a village on Cormorant Island, British Columbia, Canada. According to the 2006 census, 556 people live within the village.-Population:Slightly more than half of the village's 556 residents are First Nations people...	Mount Waddington	History	website, local history and culture
Armstrong-Spallumcheen Museum and Art Gallery	Armstrong Armstrong, British Columbia The City of Armstrong is located in the North Okanagan of the Canadian province of British Columbia, between Vernon and Enderby. It overlooks the Spallumcheen Valley, which forms a broad pass between the Okanagan Valley to the south and the Shuswap Country to the north, and is about from each of...	North Okanagan	Multiple	website, local history and art
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Art Gallery of Greater Victoria The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is a Canadian art gallery located in Victoria, British Columbia. Opened in 1951, the gallery possesses notable works by artists such as Emily Carr, and has one of Canada's most significant collections of Asian art...	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Art	Features Asian, Canadian and contemporary art
Artspeak	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Art	website, contemporary art centre
Ashcroft Museum	Ashcroft	Thompson-Nicola	History	website, local history
Ashton Garrison Museum	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Military	website
Atlin Historical Museum	Atlin Atlin, British Columbia Atlin is a community in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on the eastern shore of Atlin Lake. In addition to continued gold-mining activity, Atlin is a tourist destination for fishing, hiking and Heliskiing. As of 2004, there are 450 permanent residents.The name comes from Áa Tlein,...	Stikine Stikine Region The Stikine Region is an unincorporated area in northwesternmost British Columbia, Canada and is the only area in B.C. not in a regional district...	History	information, information, local history
Barkerville Historic Town Barkerville, British Columbia Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada and is preserved as a historic town. It is located on the north slope of the Cariboo Plateau near the Cariboo Mountains east of Quesnel along BC Highway 26, which follows the route of the original access to...	Barkerville Barkerville, British Columbia Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada and is preserved as a historic town. It is located on the north slope of the Cariboo Plateau near the Cariboo Mountains east of Quesnel along BC Highway 26, which follows the route of the original access to...	Cariboo	Open air	19th century gold mining town
Beaty Biodiversity Museum Beaty Biodiversity Museum The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is a natural history museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Its collections include over two million specimens, including a 25-metre skeleton of a female blue whale buried in Tignish, Prince Edward Island.-Location:...	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Natural history	website, part of University of British Columbia University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
BC Farm Machinery and Agricultural Museum	Langley Langley, British Columbia (district municipality) The Township of Langley is a district municipality immediately east of the City of Surrey in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It extends south from the Fraser River to the U.S. border, and west of the City of Abbotsford...	Metro Vancouver	Agriculture	website, farm equipment and machinery
BC Forest Discovery Centre BC Forest Discovery Centre The BC Forest Discovery Centre, located in Duncan, chronicles the history of logging in British Columbia, Canada. Its mission is to be British Columbia's foremost interpreter and presenter of the forest community – past, present and future. It is a 100 acre site with 3 km of operational...	Duncan Duncan, British Columbia Duncan is a city on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.-History:The community is named after William Chalmers Duncan . He arrived in Victoria in May 1862, then in August of that year he was one of the party of a hundred settlers which Governor Douglas took to Cowichan Bay...	Cowichan Valley	Industry	Logging industry equipment and artifacts, railroad equipment
BC Golf Museum and Hall of Fame	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Sports	website
BC Interior Forestry Museum	Revelstoke Revelstoke, British Columbia Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River...	Columbia-Shuswap	Industry	website, forestry industry
BC Orchard Industry Museum	Kelowna Kelowna Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"...	Central Okanagan	Industry	website, includes irrigation, fruit picking, packing, and 50-foot working model railway
BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum BC Sports Hall of Fame For over 40 years, the community has entrusted the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum with the responsibility to collect, preserve, study, and interpret materials that relate to British Columbia’s rich sport history...	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Sports	Located at BC Place Stadium BC Place Stadium BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium located at the north side of False Creek, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the home field for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League and the Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer . Originally opened on June 19, 1983 as the...
BC Wine Museum	Kelowna Kelowna Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"...	Central Okanagan	Industry	website, wine making and local history
Bella Coola Valley Museum	Bella Coola Bella Coola, British Columbia Bella Coola is a community of approximately 600 at the western extremity of the Bella Coola Valley. Bella Coola usually refers to the entire valley, encompassing the settlements of Bella Coola proper , Lower Bella Coola, Hagensborg, Saloompt, Nusatsum, Firvale and Stuie...	Cariboo	History	website, local history
Black Nugget Museum	Ladysmith Ladysmith, British Columbia Ladysmith is a town located on the 49th parallel on the east coast of Vancouver Island British Columbia, Canada. The local economy is based on forestry, tourism and agriculture. A hillside location adjacent to a sheltered harbour form the natural characteristics of the community., the population...	Cowichan Valley	History	information, information, former hotel with historic mining town artifacts
Blubber Bay Museum	Texada Island Texada Island Texada Island is the largest island in the Strait of Georgia of British Columbia, Canada. Its northern tip is located about southwest of the city of Powell River and west of the Sechelt Peninsula on the Sunshine Coast. A former mining and logging area, the island still has a few quarries and old...	Sunshine Coast	Multiple	website, local history
Bowen Island Community Museum	Bowen Island Bowen Island Bowen Island, British Columbia, is an island municipality in Howe Sound, is part of the Greater Vancouver Regional District, and is an island included within the jurisdiction of the Islands Trust . Approximately 6 km wide by 12 km long, the island at its closest point is about 2 km...	Metro Vancouver	History	website, local history and Higgens Cabin, a 1948 period logger's cabin with tools and period rooms
Boundary Museum	Grand Forks Grand Forks, British Columbia -Schools:Schools in the region are operated by School District 51 Boundary which has its main office in Grand Forks but also serves Midway, Greenwood, Beaverdell, and Rock Creek....	Kootenay Boundary Regional District of Kootenay Boundary The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary is a regional district in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the population was 30,742. The area is 8,095.62 km² . The regional district's offices are in the city of Trail...	History	website, local history
Bralorne Pioneer Museum	Bralorne Bralorne, British Columbia Bralorne is an historic underground gold mining community in the Bridge River District, some sixty dirt road miles west of the town of Lillooet.-Background:...	Squamish-Lillooet	History	information, local history
Britannia Heritage Shipyard	Richmond Richmond, British Columbia Richmond is a coastal city, incorporated in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Part of Metro Vancouver, its neighbouring communities are Vancouver and Burnaby to the north, New Westminster to the east, and Delta to the south, while the Strait of Georgia forms its western border...	Metro Vancouver	Maritime	website, historic shipyard with ongoing restoration of vessels
Britannia Mine Museum	Britannia Beach Britannia Beach, British Columbia Britannia Beach is a small unincorporated community in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District located approximately 30 kilometers north of Vancouver, British Columbia on the Sea-to-Sky Highway on Howe Sound. It has a population of about 300....	Squamish-Lillooet	Mining	website, former copper mine with buildings, mine tunnel and equipment. Also includes Mill No. 3, a National Historic Site
British Columbia Aviation Museum British Columbia Aviation Museum The British Columbia Aviation Museum is located in Sidney, Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is on the grounds of the Victoria International Airport at 1910 Norseman Road on the north edge of the airport....	Sidney Sidney, British Columbia Sidney is a town located at the northern end of the Saanich Peninsula, on Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is one of the 13 Greater Victoria municipalities. It has a population of approximately 11,300. Sidney is located just east of Victoria International Airport,...	Capital	Aerospace	website, aircraft, engines, pictures, models and artifacts
Bug Lab	New Westminster	Metro Vancouver	Natural history	website, live insects, activities and exhibits
Bulkley Valley Museum	Smithers Smithers, British Columbia Smithers is a town located in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, approximately halfway between Prince George and Prince Rupert. Smithers is located in the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako....	Bulkley-Nechako	History	website, natural history, social and technological development of the Bulkley Valley
Burnaby Art Gallery	Burnaby	Metro Vancouver	Art	website
Burnaby Village Museum Burnaby Village Museum The Burnaby Village Museum, previously known as the Heritage Village, is an open air museum in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada located at Deer Lake Park. It is a reconstructed 1920s village, containing 31 full scale buildings, as well as costumed staff demonstrating traditional trades. The museum...	Burnaby	Metro Vancouver	Open air
Canadian Military Education Centre	Chilliwack Chilliwack, British Columbia Chilliwack is a Canadian city in the Province of British Columbia. It is a predominantly agricultural community with an estimated population of 80,000 people. Chilliwack is the second largest city in the Fraser Valley Regional District after Abbotsford. The city is surrounded by mountains and...	Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²...	Military	website
Canadian Museum of Flight Canadian Museum of Flight thumb|right|De Havilland DH100 Vampire Mk.3 at Canadian Museum of FlightThe Canadian Museum of Flight is an aviation museum at the Langley Regional Airport in Langley, British Columbia, Canada...	Langley Langley, British Columbia (district municipality) The Township of Langley is a district municipality immediately east of the City of Surrey in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It extends south from the Fraser River to the U.S. border, and west of the City of Abbotsford...	Metro Vancouver	Aerospace
Canadian Museum of Rail Travel Canadian Museum of Rail Travel The Canadian Museum of Rail Travel, or its brand name "Trains Deluxe", is located in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, a city of about 25,000 on the west side of the Rocky Mountains. The city was developed by the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1898, as the administrative centre for...	Cranbrook Cranbrook, British Columbia Cranbrook, British Columbia is a city in southeast British Columbia, located on the west side of the Kootenay River at its confluence with the St. Mary's River, It is the largest urban centre in the region known as the East Kootenay. As of 2006, Cranbrook's population is 18,267, and the...	East Kootenay	Railway	Also known as Trains Deluxe
Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) Regimental Museum The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) The Canadian Scottish Regiment is a Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces based on Vancouver Island British Columbia.The regiment is located in Victoria, Nanaimo, and Courtenay, British Columbia...	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Military
Centre of the Universe Dominion Astrophysical Observatory The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, located on Observatory Hill, in Saanich, British Columbia, was completed in 1918 by the Canadian government. Proposed and designed by John S...	Saanich Saanich, British Columbia The District of Saanich is a municipality on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It is located north of the provincial capital, Victoria. It has a population of 108,265 people, making it the most populous municipality on Vancouver Island, and the seventh most populous in the province...	Capital	Science	Astronomy and the work of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum	Esquimalt Esquimalt, British Columbia The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and Royal Roads, to the northwest by the...	Capital	Military	website, history and heritage of the naval presence on Canada’s West Coast and of the military on Southern Vancouver Island
Chase & District Museum and Archives	Chase Chase, British Columbia Chase is a village located in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It has a population of roughly 2,500, and its main industries are forestry and tourism. It is located at the outlet of Little Shuswap Lake, which is the source of the South Thompson River...	Thompson-Nicola	History	website, local history
Chemainus Valley Museum	Chemainus Chemainus, British Columbia Chemainus is a community on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.Founded as a logging town in 1858, the town is now famous for its 39 outdoor murals. This outdoor gallery has given birth to 300 businesses, including a theatre, antiques dealers, and eateries. The tourist...	Cowichan Valley	History	information, local history
Cherryville Museum	Cherryville Cherryville, British Columbia Cherryville is an unincorporated community in the foothills of the Monashee Mountains in British Columbia with a population of approximately 614...	North Okanagan	History	website, local history
Chilliwack Antique Powerland	Chilliwack Chilliwack, British Columbia Chilliwack is a Canadian city in the Province of British Columbia. It is a predominantly agricultural community with an estimated population of 80,000 people. Chilliwack is the second largest city in the Fraser Valley Regional District after Abbotsford. The city is surrounded by mountains and...	Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²...	Technology	information, operated by the Atchelitz Threshermen's Association, includes old cars, trucks, horse equipment, tractors, steam engines, gas engines and local artifacts
Chilliwack Museum	Chilliwack Chilliwack, British Columbia Chilliwack is a Canadian city in the Province of British Columbia. It is a predominantly agricultural community with an estimated population of 80,000 people. Chilliwack is the second largest city in the Fraser Valley Regional District after Abbotsford. The city is surrounded by mountains and...	Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²...	Multiple	website, local history and art, a National Historic Site of Canada
Chinese Cultural Center Museum	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Ethnic	website, also includes Chinese Canadian Military Museum
Clinton Museum	Clinton Clinton, British Columbia Clinton is a village in British Columbia, Canada, located approximately 40 km northwest of Cache Creek and 30 km south of 70 Mile House.It is considered by some to straddle the southern edge of the Cariboo country of British Columbia, although others consider Ashcroft-Cache Creek, Lillooet, Savona,...	Thompson-Nicola	History	information, local history; also known as South Cariboo Historical Museum
Comox Air Force Museum Comox Air Force Museum The Comox Air Force Museum collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits artifacts relating to CFB Comox, its squadrons and its units. The museum is located at the main gate of CFB Comox, located in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The museum opened its doors in the current...	Comox Comox, British Columbia Comox is a town of 12,000 people located on a small peninsula in the Georgia Strait on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The warm dry summers, mild winters, fertile soil and abundant sea life attracted First Nations thousands of years ago, who called the area kw’umuxws...	Comox Valley	Aerospace	History of CFB Comox CFB Comox Canadian Forces Base Comox , commonly referred to as CFB Comox, is a Canadian Forces Base located north northeast of Comox, British Columbia. It is primarily operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force and is one of two bases in the country using the CP-140 Aurora...  and military aviation on the west coast of Canada
Comox Valley Art Gallery	Courtenay Courtenay, British Columbia Courtenay is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is the largest city in the area commonly known as the Comox Valley, and it is the seat of the Comox Valley Regional District which replaced the Comox-Strathcona Regional District...	Comox Valley	Art	website
Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) The Contemporary Art Gallery is the only independent, non-profit public art gallery in downtown Vancouver. The CAG exhibits local, national, and international artists, primarily featuring emerging local artists producing Canadian contemporary art...	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Art
Cortes Island Museum	Cortes Island	Strathcona	Multiple	website, art, natural and cultural history of the island
Cottonwood House Historic Site	Quesnel Quesnel, British Columbia -Demographics:Quesnel had a population of 9,326 people in 2006, which was a decrease of 7.1% from the 2001 census count. The median household income in 2005 for Quesnel was $54,044, which is slightly above the British Columbia provincial average of $52,709....	Cariboo	History	website, historic road house along the Cariboo Road Cariboo Road The Cariboo Road was a project initiated in 1860 by the colonial Governor of British Columbia, James Douglas...
Courtenay and District Museum and Palaeontology Centre	Courtenay Courtenay, British Columbia Courtenay is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is the largest city in the area commonly known as the Comox Valley, and it is the seat of the Comox Valley Regional District which replaced the Comox-Strathcona Regional District...	Comox Valley	Multiple	website, area's natural and cultural history and art
Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre	Cowichan Bay Cowichan Bay, British Columbia Cowichan Bay is a bay and community located near Duncan, in British Columbia. The mouth of the Cowichan River is near Cowichan Bay. The bay is known for its fishing and scenic value...	Cowichan Valley	Maritime	website
Cowichan Valley Museum & Archives	Duncan Duncan, British Columbia Duncan is a city on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.-History:The community is named after William Chalmers Duncan . He arrived in Victoria in May 1862, then in August of that year he was one of the party of a hundred settlers which Governor Douglas took to Cowichan Bay...	Cowichan Valley	History	website, local history
Craig Heritage Park, Museum and Archives	Parksville Parksville, British Columbia -Demographics:Parksville had a population of 10,993 people in 2006, which was an increase of 6.5% from the 2001 census count. The median household income in 2006 for Parksville was $55,524, which is below the British Columbia provincial average of $62,346....	Nanaimo	Open air	website
Craigdarroch Castle Craigdarroch Castle Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, British Columbia, is a historic, Victorian-era Scottish Baronial mansion. The mansion was designated a National Historic Site of Canada due to its landmark status in Victoria.-Description:...	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Historic house	Victorian-era mansion
Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse The Craigflower Manor and Craigflower Schoolhouse are National Historic Sites of Canada located in View Royal, British Columbia near Victoria. The centerpiece of each historic site is a 19th century building — a manor and schoolhouse commissioned by the Hudson's Bay Company to provide education...	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Historic house	19th century manor and schoolhouse
Creston Museum	Creston Creston, British Columbia Creston is a town of 4,826 people in the Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The town is located just a few kilometers north of the Porthill, Idaho border crossing into the United States and about a three-hour drive north from Spokane, Washington. It is about a one-hour drive...	Central Kootenay	History	website, local history
Crofton Old School House Museum	Crofton Crofton, British Columbia Crofton, British Columbia, Canada, is a small coastal town that is part of the District of North Cowichan on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The population is estimated at 2,500 people...	Cowichan Valley	Education	information, information, historic one room school
Cumberland Museum & Archives	Cumberland Cumberland, British Columbia Cumberland is a town in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.-History:The village was originally named Union, British Columbia after the Union Coal Company, which was in turn named in honour of the 1871 union of British Columbia with Canada. The town was renamed after...	Comox Valley	History	website, local history, coal mining, historic telephones
Dawson Creek Art Gallery	Dawson Creek Dawson Creek, British Columbia Dawson Creek is a small city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The municipality of had a population of 11,529 in 2009. Dawson Creek derives its name from the creek of the same name that runs through the community. The creek was named after George Mercer Dawson by a member of his land...	Peace River	Art	website
Deep Creek Tool Museum	Salmon Arm Salmon Arm, British Columbia -Climate:- Education :Public schools in Salmon Arm are part of School District 83 North Okanagan-Shuswap; within the city limits, there are currently five elementary schools , one middle school , and a secondary school with two campuses...	Columbia-Shuswap	Technology	information, information, collection of tools, engines, and equipment dating back to the early 20th century
Delta Museum and Archives	Delta Delta, British Columbia Delta is a district municipality in British Columbia, and forms part of Metro Vancouver. Located south of Richmond, it is bordered by the Fraser River to the north, the United States to the south and the city of Surrey to the east...	Metro Vancouver	History	website, local history
Denman Island Museum	Denman Island	Comox Valley	History	information, information, local history
Dixon Entrance Maritime Museum	Masset Masset, British Columbia Masset , formerly Massett, is a village in Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the northern coast of Graham Island, the largest island in the archipelago, and is approximately west of mainland British Columbia. It is the western terminus of the Yellowhead Highway...	Skeena-Queen Charlotte	Maritime	information
Doukhobor Discovery Centre	Castlegar Castlegar, British Columbia Castlegar is the second largest city in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located within the Selkirk Mountains at the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers. It is a regional trade and transportation centre, with a local economy fueled by forestry, mining and tourism...	Central Kootenay	Culture	website, arts, crafts, and daily life of the Doukhobor Doukhobor The Doukhobors or Dukhobors , earlierDukhobortsy are a group of Russian origin.The Doukhobors were one of the sects - later defined as a religious philosophy, ethnic group, social movement, or simply a "way of life" - known generically as Spiritual Christianity. The origin of the Doukhobors is... s of the Kootenays in 1908-1938
Eagle Valley Museum	Sicamous Sicamous, British Columbia Sicamous, British Columbia is a town in British Columbia located adjacent to the Trans-Canada Highway at the Highway 97A junction of Mara Lake and the Shuswap Lake system. It is known as a popular all season tourist destination attracting visitors from throughout Canada and around the world...	Columbia-Shuswap	Technology	information, local history
Emily Carr House Emily Carr House Emily Carr House is a National Historic Site of Canada located in Victoria, British Columbia. It was the childhood home of Canadian painter Emily Carr, and had a lasting impression on her paintings and writings.-Early history:...	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Historic house	Childhood home of Canadian painter Emily Carr Emily Carr Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a post-impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until later in her life...
Emily Carr University of Art and Design Galleries	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Art	website, Charles H. Scott, Media and Concourse Galleries
Enderby and District Museum	Enderby Enderby, British Columbia The City of Enderby is in the North Okanagan of the Canadian province of British Columbia, between Armstrong and Salmon Arm. It is approximately 80 km north of Kelowna and 130 km east of Kamloops...	North Okanagan	History	website, local history
The Exploration Place	Prince George Prince George, British Columbia Prince George, with a population of 71,030 , is the largest city in northern British Columbia, Canada, and is known as "BC's Northern Capital"...	Fraser-Fort George	Multiple	website, science, natural history, paleontology, regional sports history, local history, First Nations; also known as Fraser-Fort George Regional Museum
Falkland & District Heritage Park Museum	Falkland Falkland, British Columbia Falkland is a small community located in the Okanagan-Shuswap region of British Columbia, Canada between Vernon and Kamloops.Falkland is recognized for one Canada's largest Canadian flags, which is located on Gyp Mountain and can be seen up to 7 km away. The Falkland area has a wide array of...	Columbia-Shuswap	Open air	website
Fintry Estate Fintry Provincial Park and Protected Area Fintry Provincial Park and Protected Area, also known as Fintry Estate, is a provincial park located in the town of Fintry, British Columbia, Canada...	Fintry	Central Okanagan	Historic house
Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site in Colwood, British Columbia, on Fisgard Island at the mouth of Esquimalt Harbour, is the site of Fisgard Lighthouse, the first lighthouse on the west coast of Canada.-History:...	Colwood Colwood, British Columbia Colwood is a city located on Vancouver Island to the southwest of Victoria, capital of British Columbia. Colwood was incorporated in 1985 and has a population of approximately 15,000 people. Colwood lies within the boundaries of the Victoria Census Metropolitan area or Capital Regional District,...	Capital	Maritime	Lighthouse keeper's residence and maritime exhibits
Fort Langley Heritage CN Station	Fort Langley Fort Langley, British Columbia Fort Langley is a village with a population of 2,700 and forms part of the Township of Langley. It is the home of Fort Langley National Historic Site, a former fur trade post of the Hudson's Bay Company.-History:...	Metro Vancouver	Railroad	website
Fort Langley National Historic Site Fort Langley National Historic Site Fort Langley is a former trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company, now located in the village of Fort Langley, British Columbia. Commonly referred to as "the birthplace of British Columbia", it is designated a National Historic Site of Canada and administered by Parks Canada.-A new fort:After John...	Fort Langley Fort Langley, British Columbia Fort Langley is a village with a population of 2,700 and forms part of the Township of Langley. It is the home of Fort Langley National Historic Site, a former fur trade post of the Hudson's Bay Company.-History:...	Metro Vancouver	Open air	Former trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company with historic crafts and demonstrations
Fort Nelson Heritage Museum	Fort Nelson Fort Nelson, British Columbia Fort Nelson is a town of approximately 5000 residents in British Columbia's northeastern corner. It is the administrative centre of the newly formed Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, a first for BC. The majority of Fort Nelson's economic activities have historically been concentrated in the...	Northern Rockies	Multiple	website, antique cars and trucks, road building equipment, license plates, historic buildings, tools, minerals, toys, household items
Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site is a 19th-century coastal artillery fort on the Colwood, British Columbia side of Esquimalt Harbour, . The site is adjacent to Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site, the first lighthouse on the west coast of Canada...	Colwood Colwood, British Columbia Colwood is a city located on Vancouver Island to the southwest of Victoria, capital of British Columbia. Colwood was incorporated in 1985 and has a population of approximately 15,000 people. Colwood lies within the boundaries of the Victoria Census Metropolitan area or Capital Regional District,...	Capital	Military	19th-century coastal artillery fort
Fort Saint James National Historic Site	Fort St. James Fort St. James, British Columbia Fort St. James is a district municipality and former fur trading post in north-central British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the south-eastern shore of Stuart Lake in the Omineca Country, at the northern terminus of Highway 27, which connects to Highway 16 at Vanderhoof...	Bulkley-Nechako	Open air	website, restored Hudson's Bay Company post with 1896 living history guides in the summer
Fort St. John North Peace Museum	Fort St. John Fort St. John, British Columbia The City of Fort St. John is a city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. A member municipality of the Peace River Regional District, the city covers an area of about 22 km² with 22,000 residents . Located at Mile 47, it is one of the largest cities along the Alaska Highway. Originally...	Peace River	History	website, local history
Fort Steele Heritage Town	Fort Steele Fort Steele, British Columbia Fort Steele is a heritage town in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located north of the Crowsnest Highway along Highways 93 and 95, northeast of Cranbrook.-History:...	East Kootenay	Open air	Historic ghost town with preserved buildings and historic displays
Fraser River Discovery Centre	New Westminster	Metro Vancouver	Multiple	website, natural history, ecology, industry, and history of the Fraser River and its local impact
Gabriola Historical Museum	Gabriola Island Gabriola Island Gabriola Island is one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia, in British Columbia , Canada. Gabriola lies about east of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, to which it is linked by ferry...	Nanaimo	History	website, local cultural and natural history
Galiano Museum	Galiano Island Galiano Island Galiano Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Located on the west side of the Strait of Georgia, it is 27.5 km long, 6 km at its widest point, and 1.6 km across at its narrowest point and is separated...	Capital	History	website, local history
Glacier National Park (Canada) Glacier National Park (Canada) Glacier National Park is one of seven national parks in British Columbia, and is part of a system of 43 parks and park reserves across Canada. It protects a portion of the Columbia Mountains. It also contains the Rogers Pass National Historic Site, designated for its importance in the construction...	Revelstoke Revelstoke, British Columbia Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River...	Columbia-Shuswap	Multiple	Rogers Pass Discovery Centre exhibits include natural history of the park, Canadian Pacific Railway, Trans-Canada Highway and the route through the Rogers Pass
Golden Museum	Golden Golden, British Columbia Golden is a town in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located west of Calgary, Alberta and east of Vancouver.-History:Much of the town's history is tied into the Canadian Pacific Railway and the logging industry...	Columbia-Shuswap	History	website, local history
Grand Forks Art Gallery	Grand Forks Grand Forks, British Columbia -Schools:Schools in the region are operated by School District 51 Boundary which has its main office in Grand Forks but also serves Midway, Greenwood, Beaverdell, and Rock Creek....	Kootenay Boundary Regional District of Kootenay Boundary The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary is a regional district in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the population was 30,742. The area is 8,095.62 km² . The regional district's offices are in the city of Trail...	Art	website
Greater Vernon Museum and Archives	Vernon Vernon, British Columbia Vernon is a city in the south-central region of British Columbia, Canada. Named after Forbes George Vernon, a former MLA of British Columbia who helped found the famed Coldstream Ranch, the City of Vernon was incorporated on December 30, 1892. The City of Vernon has a population of 35,944 , while...	North Okanagan	History	website, local history, includes gallery with art by Allan Brooks Allan Brooks Allan Cyril Brooks was an ornithologist and bird artist who lived in Canada.He went to school in England and studied the bird life of the Northumberland moors. He interacted with Henry Seebohm and learnt egg-collection and butterfly collection from John Hancock...  and other North Okanagan artists
Greenwood Museum (Canada)	Greenwood Greenwood, British Columbia Greenwood is a small city in south central British Columbia.It was incorporated in 1897 and was formerly one of the principal cities of the Boundary Country smelting and mining district. It earned "city" status and has retained that stature despite the population implosion following the closure of...	Kootenay Boundary Regional District of Kootenay Boundary The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary is a regional district in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the population was 30,742. The area is 8,095.62 km² . The regional district's offices are in the city of Trail...	History	website, local history
Gulf of Georgia Cannery Gulf of Georgia Cannery The Gulf of Georgia Cannery is a National Historic Site of Canada located in Steveston village in Richmond, British Columbia.Built in 1894, the Cannery echoes the days when it was the leading producer of canned salmon in British Columbia...	Steveston Steveston, British Columbia Steveston was originally a small town near Vancouver, British Columbia, but has since been absorbed into the city of Richmond, British Columbia....	Metro Vancouver	Maritime	History of the West Coast fishing industry and the cannery
H. R. MacMillan Space Centre	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Science	Exhibits about space and science
Haida Heritage Centre	Skidegate	Skeena-Queen Charlotte	First Nations	website
Hatley Park National Historic Site Hatley Park National Historic Site Hatley Park National Historic Site is located in Colwood, British Columbia in Greater Victoria. It is the site of Hatley Castle, a Classified Federal Heritage Building. Since 1995, the mansion and estate have been used for the public Royal Roads University...	Colwood Colwood, British Columbia Colwood is a city located on Vancouver Island to the southwest of Victoria, capital of British Columbia. Colwood was incorporated in 1985 and has a population of approximately 15,000 people. Colwood lies within the boundaries of the Victoria Census Metropolitan area or Capital Regional District,...	Capital	Historic house	Early 20th century Scottish Baronial-style castle mansion
Hardy Mountain Doukhobor Village Historic Site	Grand Forks Grand Forks, British Columbia -Schools:Schools in the region are operated by School District 51 Boundary which has its main office in Grand Forks but also serves Midway, Greenwood, Beaverdell, and Rock Creek....	Kootenay Boundary Regional District of Kootenay Boundary The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary is a regional district in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the population was 30,742. The area is 8,095.62 km² . The regional district's offices are in the city of Trail...	Open air	website, operated by The Land Conservancy of British Columbia, former Doukhobor Doukhobor The Doukhobors or Dukhobors , earlierDukhobortsy are a group of Russian origin.The Doukhobors were one of the sects - later defined as a religious philosophy, ethnic group, social movement, or simply a "way of life" - known generically as Spiritual Christianity. The origin of the Doukhobors is...  village
Hazelton Pioneer Museum & Archives	Hazelton Hazelton, British Columbia Hazelton is a small town located at the junction of the Bulkley and Skeena Rivers in northern British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1866 and has a population of 293...	Stikine Stikine Region The Stikine Region is an unincorporated area in northwesternmost British Columbia, Canada and is the only area in B.C. not in a regional district...	History	[ website], local history, part of the Hazelton District Public Library
Hedley Heritage Museum	Hedley Hedley, British Columbia Hedley is an unincorporated town in southern British Columbia, Canada, named after Robert R. Hedley, the manager of the Hall Smelter in Nelson. Hedley is located at the foot of Nickel Plate Mountain in the Similkameen. The town had a population of approximately 400 as of 2005. In the early...	Okanagan-Similkameen	History	website, local history
Helmcken House Helmcken House Helmcken House is a museum in Victoria, British Columbia, located in Thunderbird Park. It was built by Dr. John Sebastian Helmcken, the first doctor in Victoria, in 1852, a surgeon with the Hudson's Bay Company. It is currently claimed to be the oldest house in British Columbia that is open to the...	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Historic house	19th century doctor's house
Heritage Acres	Saanich Saanich, British Columbia The District of Saanich is a municipality on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It is located north of the provincial capital, Victoria. It has a population of 108,265 people, making it the most populous municipality on Vancouver Island, and the seventh most populous in the province...	Capital	Open air	website, operated by the Saanich Historical Artifacts Society, includes historic buildings, working steam engines, tractors, agricultural machinery, and household and industrial artifacts
Heritage Display Centre	Port Coquitlam	Metro Vancouver	History	website, local history
Heritage Park Museum	Terrace Terrace, British Columbia Terrace is a city on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada. The Kitselas people, a tribe of the Tsimshian Nation, have lived in the Terrace area for thousands of years. The community population fell between 2001 and 2006 from 12,109 with a regional population of 19,980 to 11,320 and...	Kitimat-Stikine	Open air	website, pioneer buildings
Historic Hat Creek Ranch	Cache Creek Cache Creek, British Columbia Cache Creek is a junction community northeast of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is on the Trans-Canada Highway in the province of British Columbia at its junction with northbound Highway 97...	Thompson-Nicola	Open air	website
Historic O'Keefe Ranch	Vernon Vernon, British Columbia Vernon is a city in the south-central region of British Columbia, Canada. Named after Forbes George Vernon, a former MLA of British Columbia who helped found the famed Coldstream Ranch, the City of Vernon was incorporated on December 30, 1892. The City of Vernon has a population of 35,944 , while...	North Okanagan	Open air	website, 19th century ranch and community buildings
Historic Stewart Farm	Surrey Surrey, British Columbia Surrey is a city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member municipality of Metro Vancouver, the governing body of the Greater Vancouver Regional District...	Metro Vancouver	Farm	website, restored 1894 farmhouse, pole barn, root cellar and heirloom gardens and orchard
Hope Museum	Hope Hope, British Columbia Hope is a district municipality located at the confluence of the Fraser and Coquihalla rivers in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Hope is at the eastern end of both the Fraser Valley and the Lower Mainland region, and is at the southern end of the Fraser Canyon...	Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²...	History	information
Huble Homestead Historic Site	Giscome Portage Giscome Portage The Giscome Portage was a portage between the Fraser River and Summit Lake in British Columbia, Canada. The south end of the portage is now the location of a heritage site, the Huble Homestead, which is located on the Fraser River, 40 km north of Prince George and 6 km off Highway...	Fraser-Fort George	Open air	website, includes Huble House, Salmon Valley Post Office, general store, trapper's Cabin, barns, blacksmith shop and the First Nations fish camp
Hudson's Hope Museum	Hudson's Hope Hudson's Hope, British Columbia Hudson's Hope is a district municipality in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, in the Peace River Regional District. It covers an area of with a population of 1,157 people. Having been first settled in 1805, it is the third oldest community in the province, although it was not incorporated...	Peace River	Multiple	website, local history, fossils, natural history,
Iris Griffith Centre	Pender Harbour Pender Harbour, British Columbia “”Pender Harbour is a large, multi-inleted bay on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, on the east side of Malaspina Strait. Once a steamer stop, a fishing village and an important logging and medical waypoint, it is now an unincorporated community within the Sunshine Coast Regional District .Pender...	Sunshine Coast	Natural history	website
Irving House	New Westminster	Metro Vancouver	Historic house	website, mid-19th century period house
Jack Lynn Memorial-Pioneer Museum	Horsefly Horsefly, British Columbia Horsefly, formerly known as Harper's Camp, is an unincorporated community in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located between the Cariboo Mountains and Quesnel Lake and borders Wells Gray Provincial Park....	Cariboo	History	information, information
Japanese Canadian Museum	Kaslo Kaslo, British Columbia Kaslo is a village in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada, located on the west shore of Kootenay Lake. Known for its great natural beauty, it is a member municipality of the Central Kootenay Regional District...	Central Kootenay	History	website, located in The Langham Cultural Society, history of the Japanese Canadian families who were interned in the former hotel during World War II
Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Ethnic	website
Jim's Ford Corral Museum	Sorrento Sorrento, British Columbia Sorrento is an unincorporated settlement located on the south shore of Shuswap Lake in the Southern Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is located on the Trans-Canada Highway, and is 16 miles northeast of the town of Chase and 28 miles northwest of the city of Salmon Arm...	Columbia-Shuswap	Commodity	website, includes gas-station memorabilia, farm equipment and scale-model toys
Kaatza Station Museum	Lake Cowichan Lake Cowichan, British Columbia Cowichan Lake is a large freshwater lake located on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is located along the Cowichan Valley in the Cowichan Valley Regional District, with its eastern shore about west of Duncan, British Columbia. Cowichan Lake is about in length, running...	Cowichan Valley	History	website, local history, include a store, post office, mine shaft and logging displays, also railroad cars and equipment; located in a railroad station
Kamloops Art Gallery	Kamloops	Thompson-Nicola	Art	website
Kamloops Museum & Archives City of Kamloops Museum and Archives The Kamloops Museum and Archives is a museum and archives located in the city of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Located at 207 Seymour Street in downtown Kamloops, at the corner of Second Avenue...	Kamloops	Thompson-Nicola	History	Local history
Kelowna Art Gallery Kelowna Art Gallery The Kelowna Art Gallery is a Canadian public art gallery located in Kelowna, British Columbia founded in 1976. The gallery has become a leading public art gallery serving the central Okanagan region. The gallery was incorporated as a not-for-profit charitable society in 1977...	Kelowna Kelowna Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"...	Central Okanagan	Art
Keremeos Grist Mill	Keremeos Keremeos, British Columbia Keremeos is a village in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The name originated from the Similkameen dialect of the Okanagan language word "Keremeyeus" meaning "creek which cuts its way through the flats" referring to Keremeos Creek which flows down from the Upper Benchlands to the...	Okanagan-Similkameen	Mill	website, also known as The Grist Mill and Gardens
Kettle River Museum	Midway Midway, British Columbia Midway is a village located in southern British Columbia in the West Kootenay region.It is located 13 km west of Greenwood and 51 km east of Osoyoos along Highway 3.-History:...	Kootenay Boundary Regional District of Kootenay Boundary The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary is a regional district in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the population was 30,742. The area is 8,095.62 km² . The regional district's offices are in the city of Trail...	History	information, local history
Kilby General Store Museum Kilby Provincial Park Kilby Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Kilby Park is located in Harrison Mills, on the Harrison River overlooking Harrison Bay in the Upper Fraser Valley of southwestern British Columbia. It comprises 3 hectares with 22 camp sites and a boat launch...	Harrison Mills	Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²...	History	1890s general store
Kimberley Heritage Museum	Kimberley Kimberley, British Columbia Kimberley is a small city in southeast British Columbia, Canada along Highway 95A between the Purcell and Rocky Mountains. Kimberley was named in 1896 after the Kimberley mine in South Africa. From 1917 to 2001, it was the home to the world's largest lead-zinc mine, the Sullivan Mine...	East Kootenay	History	information, local history
Kimberley's Underground Mining Railway	Kimberley Kimberley, British Columbia Kimberley is a small city in southeast British Columbia, Canada along Highway 95A between the Purcell and Rocky Mountains. Kimberley was named in 1896 after the Kimberley mine in South Africa. From 1917 to 2001, it was the home to the world's largest lead-zinc mine, the Sullivan Mine...	East Kootenay	Railroad	website, heritage railroad and mining tour; operated by the Sullivan Mine Sullivan mine Sullivan Mine was an underground conventional–mechanized mine located in Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada; it has a complex, diatreme-hosted orebody, made up primarily of zinc sulfide, lead sulfide, and iron sulfides....  and Railway Historical Society
Kitimat Centennial Museum	Kitimat Kitimat, British Columbia Kitimat is a coastal city in northwestern British Columbia, in the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine. The Kitimat Valley, which includes the adjacent community of Terrace, is the most populous urban district in Northwest British Columbia...	Kitimat-Stikine	Multiple	website, local history, multiculturalism, turn-of-the-20th-century settlement, Haisla arts and technology, natural history
Kootenay Gallery	Castlegar Castlegar, British Columbia Castlegar is the second largest city in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located within the Selkirk Mountains at the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers. It is a regional trade and transportation centre, with a local economy fueled by forestry, mining and tourism...	Central Kootenay	Art	website
'Ksan Historical Village and Museum 'Ksan Ksan is a historical village and living museum of the Gitxsan people in the Skeena Country of northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located near Hazelton at the confluence of the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers.- See also :...	Hazelton Hazelton, British Columbia Hazelton is a small town located at the junction of the Bulkley and Skeena Rivers in northern British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1866 and has a population of 293...	Stikine Stikine Region The Stikine Region is an unincorporated area in northwesternmost British Columbia, Canada and is the only area in B.C. not in a regional district...	First Nations	Museum and replica ancient village
Ktunaxa Interpretive Centre	Cranbrook Cranbrook, British Columbia Cranbrook, British Columbia is a city in southeast British Columbia, located on the west side of the Kootenay River at its confluence with the St. Mary's River, It is the largest urban centre in the region known as the East Kootenay. As of 2006, Cranbrook's population is 18,267, and the...	East Kootenay	First Nations	information, information
Lake Country Museum	Lake Country Lake Country, British Columbia Lake Country is a District Municipality with a population of approximately 10,000 in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada. The city of Kelowna lies to the south, while the city of Vernon lies to the north. As its name suggests, there are a number of lakes in the vicinity of Lake Country,...	Central Okanagan	History	website, local history
Lakes District Museum	Burns Lake Burns Lake, British Columbia thumb|309px|right|Burns Lake's welcome signBurns Lake is a rural village in the North-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, incorporated in 1923...	Bulkley-Nechako	History	information, local history
Langley Centennial Museum	Langley Langley, British Columbia (district municipality) The Township of Langley is a district municipality immediately east of the City of Surrey in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It extends south from the Fraser River to the U.S. border, and west of the City of Abbotsford...	Metro Vancouver	Multiple	website, local history and temporary art, history or science exhibitions
Legacy Art Gallery and Cafe	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Art	website, part of University of Victoria University of Victoria The University of Victoria, often referred to as UVic, is the second oldest public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It is a research intensive university located in Saanich and Oak Bay, about northeast of downtown Victoria. The University's annual enrollment is about 20,000 students... , contemporary art
Log Cabin Museum and Archives	Saanichton Saanichton, British Columbia Saanichton, British Columbia is a village, in the municipality of Central Saanich, located between Victoria and the BC Ferry Terminal, west of the Pat Bay Highway , at the junction of Mount Newton Cross Road and East Saanich Road.-Climate:...	Capital	History	website, operated by the Saanich Pioneer Society, pioneer and First Nations artifacts
Lumby Historical Museum	Lumby Lumby, British Columbia Lumby is a small community of 1,804, located at the northeast corner of the Okanagan Valley, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is mainly a logging, manufacturing and agriculture community, but tourism is a growing trend within the area....	North Okanagan	History	website, local history, agricultural and logging machinery
Lillooet Museum	Lillooet Lillooet, British Columbia Lillooet is a community on the Fraser River in western Canada, about up the British Columbia Railway line from Vancouver. Situated at an intersection of deep gorges in the lee of the Coast Mountains, it has a dry climate- of precipitation is recorded annually at the town's weather station,...	Squamish-Lillooet	History	information, local history
London Heritage Farm	Richmond Richmond, British Columbia Richmond is a coastal city, incorporated in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Part of Metro Vancouver, its neighbouring communities are Vancouver and Burnaby to the north, New Westminster to the east, and Delta to the south, while the Strait of Georgia forms its western border...	Metro Vancouver	Historic house	website, 1880s period farmhouse
Lytton Museum	Lytton Lytton, British Columbia Lytton in British Columbia, Canada, sits at the confluence of the Thompson River and Fraser River on the east side of the Fraser. The location has been inhabited by the Nlaka'pamux people for over 10,000 years, and is one of the earliest locations settled by non-natives in the Southern Interior of...	Thompson-Nicola	History	website, local history
Mackenzie and District Museum	Mackenzie Mackenzie, British Columbia Mackenzie is a District Municipality within the Fraser-Fort George Regional District in central British Columbia, Canada. The settlement is located at the south end of Williston Lake. The townsite, established by Alexandra Forest Industries, was named for Sir Alexander MacKenzie . Mackenzie's two...	Fraser-Fort George	History	website, local history
Mackie Lake House	Coldstream Coldstream, British Columbia Coldstream is a district municipality in British Columbia, Canada, located at the northern end of Kalamalka Lake in the Okanagan Valley. Incorporated on December 21, 1906, Coldstream celebrated its centennial in 2006. The municipality is directly southeast of Vernon and is considered part of...	North Okanagan	Historic house	website, 1910 Arts & Crafts style house
Mackin Heritage Home & Toy Museum	Coquitlam	Metro Vancouver	Historic house	website, operated by the Coquitlam Heritage Society, 1910 period house, toy displays and local history
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery The Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery is located at the University of Victoria in Saanich, British Columbia. The museum is home to the University of Victoria Art Collections, which contains in excess of 30,000 art objects ranging from ancient Chinese artifacts to works by well-known contemporary...	Saanich Saanich, British Columbia The District of Saanich is a municipality on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It is located north of the provincial capital, Victoria. It has a population of 108,265 people, making it the most populous municipality on Vancouver Island, and the seventh most populous in the province...	Capital	Art	website, part of University of Victoria University of Victoria The University of Victoria, often referred to as UVic, is the second oldest public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It is a research intensive university located in Saanich and Oak Bay, about northeast of downtown Victoria. The University's annual enrollment is about 20,000 students...
Maple Ridge Museum	Maple Ridge Maple Ridge, British Columbia Maple Ridge is a District Municipality in British Columbia, located in the northeastern section of Metro Vancouver. Maple Ridge has a population of approximately 68,949.-History:...	Metro Vancouver	History	website, local history, also Haney House Museum, a late 19th century period house
Maritime Museum of British Columbia Maritime Museum of British Columbia The Maritime Museum of BC reflects the Pacific maritime history and culture of Canada's west coast, with an exhibits and public program mandate for research, education, and partnership.-History:...	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Maritime
Mascot Gold Mine Hedley Mascot Mine The Hedley Mascot Mine was a gold mine in Hedley, British Columbia, Canada. Gold was first discovered in the Nickel Plate Mountain area in 1897 and several small mines were developed over the years...	Hedley Hedley, British Columbia Hedley is an unincorporated town in southern British Columbia, Canada, named after Robert R. Hedley, the manager of the Hall Smelter in Nelson. Hedley is located at the foot of Nickel Plate Mountain in the Similkameen. The town had a population of approximately 400 as of 2005. In the early...	Okanagan-Similkameen	Mining	Seasonal tours of the mine and mine buildings
Mayne Island Museum	Mayne Island Mayne Island Mayne Island is a rustic 21-km² island in the southern Gulf Islands chain of British Columbia. It is situated midway between the Lower Mainland of BC and Vancouver Island, and has a population of around eleven hundred.-History:...	Capital	History	information, local history
McLean Mill National Historic Site McLean Mill National Historic Site McLean Mill National Historic Site is a steam-operated sawmill on Vancouver Island, officially open to tourists since July 1, 2000.-History:The mill originally ran as a family operated saw-milling business from 1926 to 1965...	Port Alberni Port Alberni, British Columbia Port Alberni is a city located in the province of British Columbia in Canada. It is the location of the head offices of the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District. The city has a total population of 17,743, and the census agglomeration area a total of 25,396....	Metro Vancouver	Industry	Historic sawmill
Metchosin School Museum	Metchosin Metchosin, British Columbia The District of Metchosin is a small, coastal community in the metro Greater Victoria region of British Columbia. It is part of the Western Communities and one of the 13 regional municipalities. Many Metchosinites are small farmers . Most are retired or work outside the community...	Capital	History	website, housed in a one room schoolhouse, local history and historic items
Michif Métis Museum	Vavenby	Thompson-Nicola	First Nations	website
Miniature World	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Toy	website, miniature dioramas
Mission Museum	Mission Mission, British Columbia Mission, the core of which was formerly known as Mission City, is a district municipality in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is situated on the north bank of the Fraser River overlooking the City of Abbotsford and with that city is part of the Central Fraser Valley. Mission is the...	Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²...	History	website, local history
Miyazaki House Miyazaki House The Miyazaki House in Lillooet, British Columbia is an elegant house built by Caspar Phair in the 1880s. It was partially modelled after Mrs. Phair's previous home, Eyrecourt Castle, in County Galway, Ireland. The gardens originally reached down to Lillooet's Main Street. A.W.A...	Lillooet Lillooet, British Columbia Lillooet is a community on the Fraser River in western Canada, about up the British Columbia Railway line from Vancouver. Situated at an intersection of deep gorges in the lee of the Coast Mountains, it has a dry climate- of precipitation is recorded annually at the town's weather station,...	Squamish-Lillooet	Multiple	Historic house, local history and art
Moricetown Interpretive Centre	Moricetown	Bulkley-Nechako	First Nations	website
MSA Museum	Abbotsford Abbotsford, British Columbia Abbotsford is a Canadian city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, adjacent to Greater Vancouver. It is the fifth largest municipality in British Columbia, home to 123,864 people . Its Census Metropolitan Area, which includes the District of Mission, is the 23rd largest in Canada,...	Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²...	Multiple	website, includes the 1920s period Trethewey House Heritage Site, and changing exhibits of local history
Museum at Campbell River	Campbell River Campbell River, British Columbia Campbell River is a coastal city in British Columbia on the east coast of Vancouver Island at the south end of Discovery Passage, which lies along the important coastal Inside Passage shipping route...	Strathcona	History	website, culture and history of Northern Vancouver Island
Museum of Anthropology at UBC Museum of Anthropology at UBC The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is renowned for its displays of world arts and cultures, in particular works by First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations...	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	First Nations	Native American culture and artifacts
Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology	Burnaby	Metro Vancouver	Archaeology	website, part of Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...
Museum of Northern British Columbia	Prince Rupert Prince Rupert, British Columbia Prince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is the land, air, and water transportation hub of British Columbia's North Coast, and home to some 12,815 people .-History:...	Skeena-Queen Charlotte	First Nations	website
Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin	Williams Lake Williams Lake, British Columbia Williams Lake, is a city in the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Located in the central part of a region known as the Cariboo, it is the largest urban centre between Kamloops and Prince George, with a population of 11,150 in city limits....	Cariboo	Cowboy	website, ranching and cowboy culture, includes BC Cowboy Hall of Fame
Museum of Vancouver	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	History	City history
Nakusp & District Museum	Nakusp Nakusp, British Columbia The Village of Nakusp is a small community located on the shores of Upper Arrow Lake, a portion of the Columbia River, in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia...	Central Kootenay	History	information, local history
Nanaimo Art Gallery	Nanaimo	Nanaimo	Art	website
Nanaimo Bastion	Nanaimo	Nanaimo	History
Nanaimo Museum	Nanaimo	Nanaimo	History	website, local history
Naramata Heritage Museum	Naramata Naramata, British Columbia -External links:*...	Okanagan-Similkameen	History	information, local history
National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre	Burnaby	Metro Vancouver	Ethnic	website, includes National Nikkei Heritage Centre and the Japanese Canadian National Museum; Japanese Canadian culture and contributions to Canada
New Westminster Museum	New Westminster	Metro Vancouver	History	website, local history
New Westminster Police Museum	New Westminster	Metro Vancouver	Law enforcement	website
Nicola Valley Museum and Archives Nicola Valley Museum and Archives The Nicola Valley Museum and Archives is in Merritt, British Columbia. it was built and is operated by the Nicola Valley Museum and Archives Association, which was formed at a meeting at Merritt City Hall on May 26, 1976, and was registered as a Society on September 23, 1976...	Merritt Merritt, British Columbia Merritt is a city in the Nicola Valley of the south-central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Situated at the confluence of the Nicola and Coldwater rivers, it is the first major community encountered after travelling along Phase One of the Coquihalla Highway and acts as the gateway to all...	Thompson-Nicola	History	Local history
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre The Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre is a museum and interpretive centre in New Denver, British Columbia, Canada, dedicated to the history of the Japanese Canadians that were relocated to internment camps during World War II by the Canadian government .The site consists of five buildings, of which...	New Denver New Denver, British Columbia New Denver is a village in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, along the shore of Slocan Lake. New Denver was founded as a mining town in 1892, and briefly known as Eldorado City before being renamed after Denver, Colorado. It was incorporated as a village in 1929 and currently has approximately...	Central Kootenay	Military	History of the Japanese Canadians that were relocated to internment camps during World War II
Nisga'a Memorial Lava Beds Provincial Park Nisga'a Memorial Lava Beds Provincial Park Nisga'a Memorial Lava Bed Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Nass River valley in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, about 80 kilometres north of Terrace, and near the Nisga'a Villages of Gitlakdamix and Gitwinksihlkw.The park was established by Order in Council on April 29, 1992,...	Gitlakdamix Gitlakdamix, British Columbia Gitlakdamix or Gitlaxt'aamiks or New Aiyansh is a Nisga'a Village about 100km north of Terrace, in the heart of the Nass River valley, Canada. It is one of four Nisga'a villages...	Kitimat-Stikine	Natural history	Visitor center exhibits include natural history of the park, Nisga'a Nisga'a The Nisga’a , often formerly spelled Nishga and spelled in the Nisga’a language as Nisga’a, are an Indigenous nation or First Nation in Canada. They live in the Nass River valley of northwestern British Columbia. Their name comes from a combination of two Nisga’a words: Nisk’-"top lip" and...  culture, tours of the lava beds
Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre	Osoyoos Osoyoos, British Columbia Osoyoos is a town in the southern part of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia near the border with Washington state. The town is also adjacent to the Indian Reserve of the Osoyoos Indian Band. The origin of the name Osoyoos was the word suius meaning "narrowing of the waters" in the local...	Okanagan-Similkameen	Multiple	website, Okanagan Okanagan The Okanagan , also known as the Okanagan Valley and sometimes as Okanagan Country is a region located in the Canadian province of British Columbia defined by the basin of Okanagan Lake and the Canadian portion of the Okanagan River. As of 2009, the region's population is approximately 350,927. The...  People, natural history of the desert
North Pacific Cannery	Port Edward Port Edward, British Columbia The District of Port Edward is a town of approximately 577, located on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada.It is situated on the Tsimpsean Peninsula, opposite Ridley Island, 15 km south of Prince Rupert.-Directions:...	Skeena-Queen Charlotte	Open air	website, tours of historic fish cannery buildings; also known as North Pacific Historic Fishing Village
North Thompson Museum	Barriere Barriere, British Columbia Barriere is a district municipality in central British Columbia, Canada, located 66 km north of the larger city of Kamloops on Highway 5. It is situated at the confluence of the Barriere and North Thompson Rivers in the Central North Thompson Valley...	Thompson-Nicola	History	information, local history
North Vancouver Museum & Archives	North Vancouver North Vancouver, British Columbia (city) The City of North Vancouver is a waterfront municipality on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, directly across from Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the smallest of the three North Shore municipalities, and the most urbanized as well...	Metro Vancouver	Multiple	website, local history and art
Notch Hill Historic Site	Sorrento Sorrento, British Columbia Sorrento is an unincorporated settlement located on the south shore of Shuswap Lake in the Southern Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is located on the Trans-Canada Highway, and is 16 miles northeast of the town of Chase and 28 miles northwest of the city of Salmon Arm...	Columbia-Shuswap	Open air	information
Nuyumabales Cultural Centre	Quadra Island Quadra Island Quadra Island is an island off the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, part of the Discovery Islands. It is separated from Vancouver Island by Discovery Passage, and from Cortes Island by Sutil Channel...	Strathcona	First Nations	information, information, formerly the Kwagiulth Museum, located in Cape Mudge
Okanagan Heritage Museum	Kelowna Kelowna Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"...	Central Okanagan	History	website, area's history and culture
Okanagan Military Museum	Kelowna Kelowna Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"...	Central Okanagan	Military	website
Okanagan Science Center	Vernon Vernon, British Columbia Vernon is a city in the south-central region of British Columbia, Canada. Named after Forbes George Vernon, a former MLA of British Columbia who helped found the famed Coldstream Ranch, the City of Vernon was incorporated on December 30, 1892. The City of Vernon has a population of 35,944 , while...	North Okanagan	Science	website
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum Hastings Mill Hastings Mill was a sawmill on the south shore of Burrard Inlet and was the first commercial operation around which the settlement that would become Vancouver developed in British Columbia, Canada....	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	History	Native American, pioneer and immigrant artifacts
Old School House Arts Centre	Qualicum Beach Qualicum Beach, British Columbia Qualicum Beach is a town in the Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the town had 8,502 people.On the Strait of Georgia on the north-eastern coast of Vancouver Island in the shadow of Mount Arrowsmith, the community has been a popular tourist destination,...	Nanaimo	Art	website
Oliver and District Museum	Oliver Oliver, British Columbia Oliver is a community at the south end of the Okanagan Valley in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, with a population of 4370. The community of Oliver is made up of land governed by three different bodies: the Town of Oliver, the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen and the...	Okanagan-Similkameen	History	website, local history
Osoyoos Desert Centre	Osoyoos Osoyoos, British Columbia Osoyoos is a town in the southern part of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia near the border with Washington state. The town is also adjacent to the Indian Reserve of the Osoyoos Indian Band. The origin of the name Osoyoos was the word suius meaning "narrowing of the waters" in the local...	Okanagan-Similkameen	Natural history	website
Osoyoos Desert Model Railroad	Osoyoos Osoyoos, British Columbia Osoyoos is a town in the southern part of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia near the border with Washington state. The town is also adjacent to the Indian Reserve of the Osoyoos Indian Band. The origin of the name Osoyoos was the word suius meaning "narrowing of the waters" in the local...	Okanagan-Similkameen	Railroad	website, model railroad layouts
Pacific Museum of the Earth	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Natural history	website, operated by the University of British Columbia University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley... , rocks, minerals, fossils
Peace Canyon Dam Visitor's Center Peace Canyon Dam The Peace Canyon Dam is a large hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia, Canada. It is located southwest of Hudson's Hope, downstream from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam....	Hudson's Hope Hudson's Hope, British Columbia Hudson's Hope is a district municipality in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, in the Peace River Regional District. It covers an area of with a population of 1,157 people. Having been first settled in 1805, it is the third oldest community in the province, although it was not incorporated...	Peace River	Multiple	Area history, natural history, building of the dam and hydroelectricity
Peachland Museum	Peachland Peachland, British Columbia Peachland is a district municipality of approximately 5000 residents in the Okanagan Valley, on the west side of Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1899 by John Moore Robinson, although the region had long been home to the Okanagan people...	Central Okanagan	History	website, local history
Pemberton Museum	Pemberton Pemberton, British Columbia Pemberton is a village north of Whistler in the Pemberton Valley of British Columbia in Canada, with a population of 2,192. Until the 1960s the village could be accessed only by train but that changed when Highway 99 was built through Whistler and Pemberton.-Climate:The climate of Pemberton is...	Squamish-Lillooet	History	website, local history
Penticton Art Gallery	Penticton	Okanagan-Similkameen	Art	website, formerly the Art Gallery of the South Okanagan
Penticton Museum	Penticton	Okanagan-Similkameen	Multiple	website, local history, culture, natural history and art
Pitt Meadows Museum	Pitt Meadows	Metro Vancouver	History	website, local history
Port Clements Museum	Port Clements Port Clements, British Columbia Port Clements is a village situated at the east end of Masset Inlet in Haida Gwaii off the coast of the Province of British Columbia in Canada. Founded by Eli Tingley in 1907, it was once known under the name Queenstown, but renamed to Port Clements in 1914 after Herb S...	Skeena-Queen Charlotte	History	website, includes logging equipment, machinery and pioneer items
Port Hardy Museum	Port Hardy Port Hardy, British Columbia Port Hardy is a district municipality in British Columbia, Canada located on the north-eastern coast of Vancouver Island. Port Hardy has a population of 3822 at last census...	Mount Waddington	History	website, local history
Port McNeill Heritage Museum	Port McNeill Port McNeill, British Columbia Port McNeill is a town in the North Island region of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada with a population of 2,623 . Located on Vancouver Island's north-east shore on Queen Charlotte Strait, it was originally a base camp for loggers, Port McNeill became a settlement in 1936...	Mount Waddington	History	information, local history
Port Moody Station Museum Port Moody Station Museum The Port Moody Station Museum is owned and operated by the Port Moody Heritage Society and is part of their effort to promote increased awareness and knowledge of Port Moody, British Columbia's heritage and history.- History :...	Port Moody	Metro Vancouver	History	Local history, located in a historic railway station building
Pouce Coupe Museum	Pouce Coupe Pouce Coupe, British Columbia The Village of Pouce Coupe is a small town in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Peace River Regional District. It was originally named 'Pouskapie's Prairie', after the name of the local native band chief...	Peace River	History	website, includes Heritage House, trapper's cabin, caboose and the original NAR train station
Powell River Historical Museum	Powell River Powell River, British Columbia Powell River is a city on the northern Sunshine Coast of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Most of its population lives near the eastern shores of Malaspina Strait, that part of the larger Georgia Strait between Texada Island and the Mainland...	Sunshine Coast	History	website, local history
Presentation Gallery	North Vancouver North Vancouver, British Columbia (city) The City of North Vancouver is a waterfront municipality on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, directly across from Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the smallest of the three North Shore municipalities, and the most urbanized as well...	Metro Vancouver	Art	website, photography gallery
Prince George Railway and Forestry Museum Prince George Railway and Forestry Museum The Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum is in Prince George, British Columbia. Its collection consists of over sixty pieces of rolling stock , nine historical buildings and numerous smaller artifacts on an site...	Prince George Prince George, British Columbia Prince George, with a population of 71,030 , is the largest city in northern British Columbia, Canada, and is known as "BC's Northern Capital"...	Fraser-Fort George	Railway
Prince Rupert Fire Museum	Prince Rupert Prince Rupert, British Columbia Prince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is the land, air, and water transportation hub of British Columbia's North Coast, and home to some 12,815 people .-History:...	Skeena-Queen Charlotte	Firefighting	website
Princeton District Pioneer Museum	Princeton Princeton, British Columbia Princeton is a small town in the Similkameen region of southern British Columbia, Canada. It lies just east of the Cascade Mountains, which continue south into Washington, Oregon and California. The Tulameen and Similkameen Rivers converge here...	Okanagan-Similkameen	Multiple	Local history artifacts, fossils
Qualicum Beach Museum	Qualicum Beach Qualicum Beach, British Columbia Qualicum Beach is a town in the Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the town had 8,502 people.On the Strait of Georgia on the north-eastern coast of Vancouver Island in the shadow of Mount Arrowsmith, the community has been a popular tourist destination,...	Nanaimo	Multiple	website, local history and fossils
Quesnel Museum	Quesnel Quesnel, British Columbia -Demographics:Quesnel had a population of 9,326 people in 2006, which was a decrease of 7.1% from the 2001 census count. The median household income in 2005 for Quesnel was $54,044, which is slightly above the British Columbia provincial average of $52,709....	Cariboo	History	website, includes period room and business displays, Chinese artifacts
Quw’utsun Cultural Centre	Duncan Duncan, British Columbia Duncan is a city on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.-History:The community is named after William Chalmers Duncan . He arrived in Victoria in May 1862, then in August of that year he was one of the party of a hundred settlers which Governor Douglas took to Cowichan Bay...	Cowichan Valley	First Nations	website
Regimental Museum of the BC Regiment Beatty Street Drill Hall The Beatty Street Drill Hall is a Canadian Forces armoury located at 620 Beatty Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the home of The British Columbia Regiment , an armoured reconnaissance reserve regiment, the oldest military unit in Vancouver, and the most senior militia in the province...	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Military	History and artifacts of The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own)
Revelstoke Dam Visitor Center Revelstoke Dam The Revelstoke Dam, also known as Revelstoke Canyon Dam, is a hydroelectric dam spanning the Columbia River, 5 km north of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada. The powerhouse was completed in 1984 and has a generating capacity of 2480 MW. Four generating units were installed initially, with one...	Revelstoke Revelstoke, British Columbia Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River...	Columbia-Shuswap	Multiple	History of the dam, science of hydroelectricity, First Nations history and culture
Revelstoke Firehall Museum	Revelstoke Revelstoke, British Columbia Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River...	Columbia-Shuswap	Firefighting	website
Revelstoke Nickelodeon Museum	Revelstoke Revelstoke, British Columbia Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River...	Columbia-Shuswap	Music	website, mechanical music machines including Victorian musical boxes, player pianos, player reed and pipe organs
Revelstoke Museum and Archives	Revelstoke Revelstoke, British Columbia Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River...	Columbia-Shuswap	History	website, local history
Revelstoke Railway Museum	Revelstoke Revelstoke, British Columbia Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River...	Columbia-Shuswap	Railroad	website
Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre	Revelstoke Revelstoke, British Columbia Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River...	Columbia-Shuswap	Art	website
Richmond Art Gallery	Richmond Richmond, British Columbia Richmond is a coastal city, incorporated in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Part of Metro Vancouver, its neighbouring communities are Vancouver and Burnaby to the north, New Westminster to the east, and Delta to the south, while the Strait of Georgia forms its western border...	Metro Vancouver	Art	website
Richmond Museum	Richmond Richmond, British Columbia Richmond is a coastal city, incorporated in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Part of Metro Vancouver, its neighbouring communities are Vancouver and Burnaby to the north, New Westminster to the east, and Delta to the south, while the Strait of Georgia forms its western border...	Metro Vancouver	History	website, local history and culture
RJ Haney Heritage Village & Museum	Salmon Arm Salmon Arm, British Columbia -Climate:- Education :Public schools in Salmon Arm are part of School District 83 North Okanagan-Shuswap; within the city limits, there are currently five elementary schools , one middle school , and a secondary school with two campuses...	Columbia-Shuswap	Open air	website
Rocky Mountain Rangers Museum	Kamloops	Thompson-Nicola	Military	website, located in the JR Vicars Armoury, history of The Rocky Mountain Rangers The Rocky Mountain Rangers The Rocky Mountain Rangers is a Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces. The regimental headquarters are located at JR Vicars Armoury in Kamloops, British Columbia...
Roedde House Museum	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Historic house	website, late Victorian period house
Rossland Historical Museum	Rossland Rossland, British Columbia Rossland is a city in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia.Tucked high in the Monashee Mountains, Rossland is at an elevation of 1023 metres . Population today is approximately 3500; a number that fluctuates from season to season. The population is at its peak during the winter...	Kootenay Boundary Regional District of Kootenay Boundary The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary is a regional district in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the population was 30,742. The area is 8,095.62 km² . The regional district's offices are in the city of Trail...	Multiple	website, local history museum, historic park with mine buildings and tour of Le Roi Gold Mine
Royal British Columbia Museum Royal British Columbia Museum The Royal British Columbia Museum is a natural history and human history museum in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, founded in 1886. The "Royal" title was approved by Queen Elizabeth II and bestowed by HRH Prince Philip in 1987, to coincide with a Royal tour that year...	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Multiple	History, natural history, First Nations culture
Royal London Wax Museum	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Wax	website
Royal Westminster Regiment Historical Society and Museum	New Westminster	Metro Vancouver	Military
Salmo Museum	Salmo Salmo, British Columbia Salmo is a village in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the Salmo River Valley, surrounded by the Selkirk Mountain range....	Central Kootenay	History	information, local history
Salt Spring Island Museum	Ganges, British Columbia Ganges, British Columbia Ganges, British Columbia is an unincorporated community on Salt Spring Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada.-History:Ganges Harbour, from which Ganges takes its name, was originally called Admiralty Bay but was renamed by Captain Richards in 1859 for the , which was at the Pacific...	Capital	History	information, information, local history
Samson V Maritime Museum	New Westminster	Metro Vancouver	Maritime	website, sternwheel snagpuller museum ship
Sandon Historical Museum	Sandon Sandon, British Columbia Sandon is a ghost town in British Columbia, Canada. It is also the birthplace of hockey Hall of Fame member Cecil "Tiny" Thompson.-Location:Sandon is located in the Selkirk Mountains, about ten kilometers east of the town of New Denver.-History:...	Central Kootenay	History	website, local history of the mining ghost town
Science World at Telus World of Science Science World at TELUS World of Science Science World at Telus World of Science, Vancouver is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Science
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum and Archives Seaforth Armoury The Seaforth Armoury is a Canadian Forces armoury located at 1650 Burrard Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the home of The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, a Primary Reserve Infantry unit...	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Military
Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park The Secwepemc Museum & Heritage Park is located in Kamloops, British Columbia. The inside of the museum has four different galleries showcasing the cultural and traditional lives of the Secwepemc People...	Kamloops	Thompson-Nicola	First Nations	History & culture of the Shuswap People
Shawnigan Lake Museum	Shawnigan Lake Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Shawnigan Lake is a village on British Columbia's Vancouver Island. The name Shawnigan is an adaptation of the Hunquminum name for the Shawnigan Lake, the lake the village is situated at, Shaanii'us...	Cowichan Valley	History	website, local history
Sidney Museum and Archives Sidney Museum and Archives The Sidney Museum and Archivesis a non-profit community organization located in Sidney, BC which is dedicated to the history of Sidney and North Saanich. Run by the Society of Saanich Peninsula Museums, the museum promotes awareness of local heritage through exhibits, programs, and collections...	Sidney Sidney, British Columbia Sidney is a town located at the northern end of the Saanich Peninsula, on Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is one of the 13 Greater Victoria municipalities. It has a population of approximately 11,300. Sidney is located just east of Victoria International Airport,...	Capital	Multiple	website, local history, Saanich pioneers, includes period kitchen and school room
Silverton Historical Society Interpretive Centre	Silverton Silverton, British Columbia Silverton is a village in the Slocan Valley area of the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the eastern shore of Slocan Lake south of New Denver. It is British Columbia's smallest municipality in both population and area....	Central Kootenay	History	website, local history
Silvery Slocan Museum	New Denver New Denver, British Columbia New Denver is a village in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, along the shore of Slocan Lake. New Denver was founded as a mining town in 1892, and briefly known as Eldorado City before being renamed after Denver, Colorado. It was incorporated as a village in 1929 and currently has approximately...	Central Kootenay	History	website, local history
Simon Fraser University Gallery	Burnaby	Metro Vancouver	Art	website, part of Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...
Simon Fraser University Gallery	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Art	website, part of Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000... , Teck Gallery
Snaza’ist Discovery Centre	Hedley Hedley, British Columbia Hedley is an unincorporated town in southern British Columbia, Canada, named after Robert R. Hedley, the manager of the Hall Smelter in Nelson. Hedley is located at the foot of Nickel Plate Mountain in the Similkameen. The town had a population of approximately 400 as of 2005. In the early...	Okanagan-Similkameen	First Nations	website, history and culture of the Similkameen Similkameen Similkameen is the name of a river in the Canadian province of British Columbia which has several possible local meanings:* the Similkameen River...  people, tours of the Mascot Gold Mine Hedley Mascot Mine The Hedley Mascot Mine was a gold mine in Hedley, British Columbia, Canada. Gold was first discovered in the Nickel Plate Mountain area in 1897 and several small mines were developed over the years...
Sointula Museum	Sointula Sointula, British Columbia Sointula is an isolated village on Malcolm Island in British Columbia, Canada. Lying between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland, northeast of Port McNeill and not far from Alert Bay, the island is part of the historic and present territory of the 'Namgis First Nation...	Mount Waddington	History	website, local history
Sooke Region Museum	Sooke Sooke, British Columbia Sooke is a district municipality situated on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada. About a 45 minute drive from the city of Victoria , Sooke is considered the westernmost of the Greater Victoria region's "Western Communities." It is situated to the north and west of the Sooke...	Capital	Open air	website, includes museum with local history and culture exhibits, blacksmith shop, lighthouse equipment, machinery and equipment for agriculture and industry, 1902 period pioneer cottage
South Peace Historical Society Railway Station Museum	Dawson Creek	Peace River	History	information, also known as N.A.R. Station Museum, includes pioneers, natural history, railroads and building of the Alaska Highway
South Similkameen Museum	Keremeos Keremeos, British Columbia Keremeos is a village in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The name originated from the Similkameen dialect of the Okanagan language word "Keremeyeus" meaning "creek which cuts its way through the flats" referring to Keremeos Creek which flows down from the Upper Benchlands to the...	Okanagan-Similkameen	History	website, local history, housed in a former police office and jail
Sparwood Museum	Sparwood Sparwood, British Columbia -Newspapers:* Fernie Free Press - Weekly Paper* Elk Valley Herald - Weekly Paper* Kootenay News Advertiser - Weekly Paper* The Valley - Weekly Paper* Fernie Fix - Monthly Glossy Magazine* Black Rock News - Semimonthly-Radio stations:...	East Kootenay	History	website, local history
Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre	Whistler Whistler, British Columbia Whistler is a Canadian resort town in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the province of British Columbia, Canada, approximately north of Vancouver...	Squamish-Lillooet	First Nations	website
S.S. Moyie National Historic Site Moyie (sternwheeler) The Moyie is a paddle steamer sternwheeler that worked on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada from 1898 until 1957.After her nearly sixty years of service, she was sold to the town of Kaslo and restored...	Kaslo Kaslo, British Columbia Kaslo is a village in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada, located on the west shore of Kootenay Lake. Known for its great natural beauty, it is a member municipality of the Central Kootenay Regional District...	Central Kootenay	Maritime	Passenger sternwheeler museum ship
Stave Falls Visitor Centre Stave Falls Dam Stave Falls Dam is a dual-dam power complex on the Stave River in Stave Falls, British Columbia, Canada . The dam was completed in 1912 for the primary purpose of hydroelectric power production. To increase the capacity of Stave Lake, the dam was raised in 1925 and the Blind Slough Dam constructed...	Stave Falls Stave Falls, British Columbia Stave Falls is a rural community located in northwestern Mission, British Columbia, Canada.-External links:****...	Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²...	Science	website, hydroelectricity and the dam
Stewart Historical Museum	Stewart Stewart, British Columbia Stewart is a small town, incorporated as a district municipality at the head of the Portland Canal in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. In 2006, its population was about 496.-History:...	Stikine Stikine Region The Stikine Region is an unincorporated area in northwesternmost British Columbia, Canada and is the only area in B.C. not in a regional district...	History	information, local history
Steveston Museum	Richmond Richmond, British Columbia Richmond is a coastal city, incorporated in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Part of Metro Vancouver, its neighbouring communities are Vancouver and Burnaby to the north, New Westminster to the east, and Delta to the south, while the Strait of Georgia forms its western border...	Metro Vancouver	History	website, recreated rooms of a bank, post office, general store, and bedrooms
Summerland Museum	Summerland Summerland, British Columbia Summerland is a community on the west side of Okanagan Lake in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. The district is between Peachland to the north and Penticton to the south...	Okanagan-Similkameen	History	website, local history and development
Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives	Gibsons Gibsons, British Columbia Gibsons is a coastal community of 4,200 located in southwestern British Columbia, Canada on the Strait of Georgia. It is the main marine gateway to the Sunshine Coast....	Sunshine Coast	Multiple	website, local maritime, natural and cultural history
Surrey Museum	Surrey Surrey, British Columbia Surrey is a city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member municipality of Metro Vancouver, the governing body of the Greater Vancouver Regional District...	Metro Vancouver	Multiple	website, local history and culture, changing exhibits of art, culture and science, historic log cabin, textile studio
Tahsis Museum	Tahsis Tahsis, British Columbia Tahsis is a village on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, about 300 km northwest of the provincial capital Victoria at . It has 300 residents and used to be dependent on forestry, although now the economy is moving towards outdoor recreation and tourism.The village is...	Strathcona	History	information, local history
Teck Cominco Interpretive Centre	Trail Trail, British Columbia Trail is a city in the West Kootenay region of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada.-Geography:Trail has an area of . The city is located on both banks of the Columbia River, approximately 10 km north of the United States border. This section of the Columbia River valley is located between the...	Kootenay Boundary Regional District of Kootenay Boundary The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary is a regional district in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the population was 30,742. The area is 8,095.62 km² . The regional district's offices are in the city of Trail...	Mining	information, science of mineral exploration, free tours of the zinc lead smelter
Telkwa Museum	Telkwa Telkwa, British Columbia Telkwa is a village located along British Columbia Highway 16, nearly 15 km southeast of the town of Smithers and 350 km west of the city of Prince George, in northwest British Columbia, Canada....	Bulkley-Nechako	History	information, local history
tems swiya Museum	Sechelt Sechelt, British Columbia The District Municipality of Sechelt is on the lower Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Approximately 50 km northwest of Vancouver, Sechelt is accessible to the mainland of British Columbia via a 40 minute ferry trip between Horseshoe Bay and Langdale, and a 25 minute drive from Langdale...	Sunshine Coast	First Nations	information, culture and history of the Shishalh Shishalh The Shishalh people, at the time of the first European contact had a population near 26,000. Shishalh women were famous for their beautiful cedar woven baskets, using materials gathered from the roots of the cedar tree, cannery grass and birch bark for the design.The Sechelt First Nations...  peoples
Terrace Art Gallery	Terrace Terrace, British Columbia Terrace is a city on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada. The Kitselas people, a tribe of the Tsimshian Nation, have lived in the Terrace area for thousands of years. The community population fell between 2001 and 2006 from 12,109 with a regional population of 19,980 to 11,320 and...	Kitimat-Stikine	Art	website
Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History	Nelson Nelson, British Columbia Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Known as "The Queen City", and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings from its glory days in a regional silver rush,...	Central Kootenay	Multiple	website, art and local history
Toastworks Museum	Stewart Stewart, British Columbia Stewart is a small town, incorporated as a district municipality at the head of the Portland Canal in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. In 2006, its population was about 496.-History:...	Stikine Stikine Region The Stikine Region is an unincorporated area in northwesternmost British Columbia, Canada and is the only area in B.C. not in a regional district...	Technology	website, collection of toasters
Trail Museum	Trail Trail, British Columbia Trail is a city in the West Kootenay region of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada.-Geography:Trail has an area of . The city is located on both banks of the Columbia River, approximately 10 km north of the United States border. This section of the Columbia River valley is located between the...	Kootenay Boundary Regional District of Kootenay Boundary The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary is a regional district in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2006 census, the population was 30,742. The area is 8,095.62 km² . The regional district's offices are in the city of Trail...	History	website, local history
Trev Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Transport	website
Two Rivers Gallery	Prince George Prince George, British Columbia Prince George, with a population of 71,030 , is the largest city in northern British Columbia, Canada, and is known as "BC's Northern Capital"...	Fraser-Fort George	Art	website
U'mista Cultural Centre	Alert Bay Alert Bay, British Columbia Alert Bay is a village on Cormorant Island, British Columbia, Canada. According to the 2006 census, 556 people live within the village.-Population:Slightly more than half of the village's 556 residents are First Nations people...	Mount Waddington	First Nations	website
Valemount Museum	Valemount Valemount, British Columbia Valemount is a village of 1,018 people in east central British Columbia, Canada. It is situated between the Rocky, Monashee, and Cariboo Mountains. It is the nearest community to the west of Jasper National Park, and is also the nearest community to Mount Robson Provincial Park, which features...	Fraser-Fort George	History	website, local history
Valley Museum and Archive	McBride McBride, British Columbia Situated on the Yellowhead Highway , McBride is a small community in the Robson Valley region of British Columbia, Canada, located southeast of Prince George, west of the Alberta border, and west of Jasper, Alberta....	Fraser-Fort George	History	website, local history
Van Anda Museum	Texada Island Texada Island Texada Island is the largest island in the Strait of Georgia of British Columbia, Canada. Its northern tip is located about southwest of the city of Powell River and west of the Sechelt Peninsula on the Sunshine Coast. A former mining and logging area, the island still has a few quarries and old...	Sunshine Coast	Multiple	website, local history
Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver Art Gallery The Vancouver Art Gallery is the fifth-largest art gallery in Canada and the largest in Western Canada. It is located at 750 Hornby Street in Vancouver, British Columbia...	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Art	Collections include major works by Emily Carr Emily Carr Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a post-impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until later in her life... , the Group of Seven Group of Seven (artists) The Group of Seven, sometimes known as the Algonquin school, were a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920-1933, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael , Lawren Harris , A. Y. Jackson , Franz Johnston , Arthur Lismer , J. E. H. MacDonald , and Frederick Varley...  and Marc Chagall Marc Chagall Marc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...
Vancouver Holocaust Education Center	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Holocaust	website
Vancouver Island Military Museum	Nanaimo	Nanaimo	Military	website
Vancouver Maritime Museum Vancouver Maritime Museum The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a Maritime museum devoted to presenting the maritime history of Vancouver, British Columbia, and the Canadian Arctic. Opened in 1959 as a Vancouver centennial project, it is located within Vanier Park just west of False Creek on the Vancouver waterfront. The main...	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Maritime
Vancouver Police Museum	Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...	Metro Vancouver	Law enforcement
Vanderhoof Heritage Museum	Vanderhoof Vanderhoof, British Columbia -External links:**...	Bulkley-Nechako	Open air	website
Vernon Public Art Gallery	Vernon Vernon, British Columbia Vernon is a city in the south-central region of British Columbia, Canada. Named after Forbes George Vernon, a former MLA of British Columbia who helped found the famed Coldstream Ranch, the City of Vernon was incorporated on December 30, 1892. The City of Vernon has a population of 35,944 , while...	North Okanagan	Art	website
Victoria Fire Department Museum	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Firefighting	website
Victoria Police Department Museum Victoria Police Department Victoria Police Department is the municipal police force for the City of Victoria and the Township of Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada. It is the oldest municipal police department in Canada west of the Great Lakes, the first Canadian law enforcement agency to deploy Tasers and creating the...	Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...	Capital	Law enforcement
W. A. C. Bennett Dam Visitor Centre W. A. C. Bennett Dam The W. A. C. Bennett Dam is a large hydroelectric earthfill dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia, Canada. The dam, located 19 kilometres west of Hudson's Hope, and 85 kilometres northwest of Chetwynd, is named after the late former premier W. A. C. Bennett, and came on-line in 1968...	Hudson's Hope Hudson's Hope, British Columbia Hudson's Hope is a district municipality in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, in the Peace River Regional District. It covers an area of with a population of 1,157 people. Having been first settled in 1805, it is the third oldest community in the province, although it was not incorporated...	Peace River	Multiple	Area history, natural history, building of the dam and hydroelectricity
Walter Wright Pioneer Village	Dawson Creek	Peace River	Open air	information, information
Wells Museum	Wells Wells, British Columbia Wells is a small mining and tourist town in the Cariboo District of central British Columbia, located on BC Highway 26, 74 km from Quesnel and 8 km before the highway's terminus at Barkerville...	Cariboo	History	website, local history, hard rock gold mining
West Coast Railway Heritage Park	Squamish Squamish, British Columbia Squamish is a community and a district municipality in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located at the north end of Howe Sound on the Sea to Sky Highway...	Squamish-Lillooet	Railway	website, typical railway facility of the mid-20th century and restored railroad cars
West Vancouver Museum	West Vancouver	Metro Vancouver	Art	website
Westbank Museum	Westbank Westbank, British Columbia Westbank is one of the communities within the district municipality of West Kelowna in the province of British Columbia. It is 12 km to the west of Kelowna. Other communities in West Kelowna include Casa Loma, West Kelowna Estates, Shannon Lake, Smith Creek, Glenrosa, Rose Valley and Lakeview...	Central Okanagan	History	website, local history
The Whale Centre	White Rock White Rock, British Columbia White Rock is a city in British Columbia, Canada, that lies within the Metro Vancouver regional district. It borders Semiahmoo Bay and is surrounded on three sides by the City of Surrey, British Columbia. To the south lies the Semiahmoo First Nation, which is within the city limits of Surrey...	Alberni-Clayoquot	Natural history	website, marine life and tours for watching whales, sea birds and marine mammals
Whistler Museum and Archives	Whistler Whistler, British Columbia Whistler is a Canadian resort town in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the province of British Columbia, Canada, approximately north of Vancouver...	Squamish-Lillooet	Multiple	website, area's natural, cultural history, sports
White Post Auto Museum	Tappen Tappen, British Columbia Tappen is a settlement in British Columbia....	Columbia-Shuswap	Automobile	information
White Rock Museum and Archives	White Rock White Rock, British Columbia White Rock is a city in British Columbia, Canada, that lies within the Metro Vancouver regional district. It borders Semiahmoo Bay and is surrounded on three sides by the City of Surrey, British Columbia. To the south lies the Semiahmoo First Nation, which is within the city limits of Surrey...	Metro Vancouver	History	website, local history
Windermere Valley Museum	Invermere Invermere, British Columbia Invermere is a community in eastern British Columbia, Canada, near the border of Alberta. With its growing permanent population of almost 4,000 , swelling to near 40,000 on summer weekends, it is the hub of the Columbia Valley between Golden, and Cranbrook...	East Kootenay	Open air	information
Xá:ytem Longhouse Interpretive Centre	Mission Mission, British Columbia Mission, the core of which was formerly known as Mission City, is a district municipality in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is situated on the north bank of the Fraser River overlooking the City of Abbotsford and with that city is part of the Central Fraser Valley. Mission is the...	Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²...	First Nations
Yale Museum	Yale Yale, British Columbia Yale is an unincorporated town in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was founded in 1848 by the Hudson's Bay Company as Fort Yale by Ovid Allard, the appointed manager of the new post, who named it after his superior, James Murray Yale, then Chief Factor of the Columbia District...	Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²...	History	information, local history
Zeballos Heritage Museum	Zeballos Zeballos, British Columbia Zeballos is a village located on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. While legend suggests Spanish gold seekers may have explored the area in the late 16th century, Zeballos is now known for its ecotourism and sport fishing.-Location and geography:Zeballos is a...	Strathcona	History	information, local history

Defunct museums

• Granville Island Model Trains Museum, Vancouver
  Vancouver
  Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
  
  , closed in 2008
• Granville Island Sport Fishing Museum, Vancouver
  Vancouver
  Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
  
  
• The Niagara Falls Museum
  The Niagara Falls Museum
  Niagara Falls Museum was a museum most notable for being the oldest Canadian museum , as well as for having housed the mummy of Ramses I for 140 years before its return to Egypt in 2003...
  
  
• Storyeum
  Storyeum
  Storyeum was a short-lived tourist attraction, located at 142 Water Street, Vancouver. Storyeum was located in the largely touristy area of the Gastown neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...
  
  , Vancouver
  Vancouver
  Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
  
  

See also

• Nature centres in British Columbia