Museum of Vancouver

The Museum of Vancouver is a civic history museum located in Vanier Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. MOV is the largest urban museum in Canada and the oldest museum in Vancouver.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include H. R. MacMillan Space Centre and Vancouver Maritime Museum.

H. R. MacMillan Space Centre

Museum

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The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, is an astronomy museum located at Vanier Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. The museum was opened on October 28, 1968, containing a Planetarium Star Theatre.

The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a maritime museum devoted to presenting the maritime history of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the Canadian Arctic. Vancouver Maritime Museum is situated 280 metres northwest of Museum of Vancouver.

Bard on the Beach

Theater building

Photo: Irene Kehler, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bard on the Beach is Western Canada's largest professional Shakespeare festival. The theatre festival runs annually from early June through September in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Bard on the Beach is situated 160 metres east of Museum of Vancouver.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Granville Island and Davie Village.

Granville Island

Neighborhood

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Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, across False Creek from Downtown Vancouver, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge.

Davie Village

Neighborhood

Photo: Jeff Hitchcock, CC BY 2.0.

Davie Village is a neighbourhood in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the home of the city's LGBT subculture, and, as such, is often considered a gay village, or gaybourhood.

Kitsilano

Suburb

Photo: Flying Penguin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kitsilano, South Granville and Granville Island form most of the northern part of the Vancouver west side. In the 1960s Kits was a neighbourhood where hippies "tuned in and dropped out" but today it has some of Vancouver's most expensive properties.

Museum of Vancouver

Type: Museum
Description: museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

49.27619° or 49° 16′ 34″ north

Longitude

-123.14427° or 123° 8′ 39″ west

Elevation

9 metres (30 feet)

Open location code

84XR7VG4+F7

GeoNames ID

11523438

Wikidata ID

Q1478298

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Russian—“Museum of Vancouver” goes by many names.

Belarusian: “Музей Ванкувера”
Chinese: “温哥华博物馆”
Dutch: “Museum of Vancouver”
French: “Museum of Vancouver”
German: “Museum of Vancouver”
German: “Vancouver Museum”
Japanese: “バンクーバー博物館”
Russian: “Музей Ванкувера”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Kits Point and English Bay.

Nearby Places

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