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Vancouver Maritime Museum

The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a maritime museum devoted to presenting the maritime history of , , Canada, and the Canadian Arctic.
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  • Opening hours:
    10:00 AM—5:00 PM
    September—May: Monday closed; Sunday noon—5:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: maritime museum
  • Also known as: “vancouvermaritimemuseum.com”
  • Address: 1905 Ogden Avenue, Vancouver, V6J 1A3
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include H. R. MacMillan Space Centre and Bard on the Beach.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, is an astronomy museum located at in , British Columbia. The museum was opened on October 28, 1968, containing a Planetarium Star Theatre. is situated 230 metres southeast of Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Theater building
Photo: Irene Kehler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is Western Canada's largest professional Shakespeare festival. The theatre festival runs annually from early June through September in , , Canada. is situated 400 metres east of Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Beach
Photo: dronepicr, CC BY 2.0.
is one of the most popular beaches in , especially in the warm summer months. Located at the north edge of the neighbourhood, the beach faces out onto English Bay.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kitsilano and Kitsilano-Granville Island.

Suburb
Photo: Flying Penguin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, South Granville and Granville Island form most of the northern part of the 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.

Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kitsilano, South Granville and Granville Island form most of the northern part of the 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.

Neighborhood
Photo: Jeff Hitchcock, CC BY 2.0.
is a neighbourhood in the of , , Canada. It is the home of the city's LGBT subculture, and, as such, is often considered a gay village, or gaybourhood.

Vancouver Maritime Museum

Latitude
49.27749° or 49° 16′ 39″ north
Longitude
-123.14757° or 123° 8′ 51″ west
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Inception
1959
Open location code
84XR7VG2+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 174530913
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
11836210
Wiki­data ID
Q1139295
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Vancouver Maritime Museum” goes by many names.

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