Museum of Vancouver
The Museum of Vancouver is a civic history museum located in Vanier Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. The MOV is the largest civic museum in Canada and the oldest museum in Vancouver.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include H. R. MacMillan Space Centre and Vancouver Maritime Museum.
H. R. MacMillan Space Centre
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
Vancouver Maritime Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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
Photo: Zhatt, Public domain.
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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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”
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