Visit Royal BC Museum

With numerous three-dimensional displays offering a feast of views, scents, and sounds, British Columbia's provincial museum and archives is one of the top museums of natural and cultural history in Canada.

Walk through a rainforest, observe wildlife on West Coast beaches and in tidal wetlands, sit among aboriginal ceremonial poles and masks, and hear about the challenges of First Nations people following European settlement. A replica of the HMS Discovery, the ship that carried Captain Vancouver to these shores, and a street of shops in Old Town are also interactive features. Thunderbird Park has a traditional carved memorial and house poles outside. Helmcken House, a small mid-nineteenth-century home nearby, is British Columbia's oldest residence still standing on its original site.