Free Gallery and Heritage at PoMoArts

A slow, easy plan for two: Emily Carr's That Green Ideal at the Vancouver Art Gallery, indoors and downtown, on view until November 8, 2026.

A former courthouse holding the world's largest Emily Carr collection, and free from 4 to 8pm on the first Friday of every month.

Thirty-one reconstructed 1920s buildings, a 1912 carousel, and the quiet suspicion you'd actually thrive back then.

A quarter-century-old Vancouver Halloween tradition: costumed processions with lanterns and live performance move through Strathcona hourly after dark on October 31.

A moving museum of Japanese-Canadian history with real artifacts and oral histories, plus a tranquil Japanese garden with a pond and maples.

An intimate downtown gallery for Haida master Bill Reid and contemporary Indigenous artists, where the jewellery cases invite actual leaning-in.

An easy, low-pressure early date: about an hour and a quarter with Vancouver Now! Emily Hermant on the Vancouver Art Gallery's third floor, until November 22, 2026.

Suzhou artisans, no nails, Ming Dynasty methods, and National Geographic's vote for the world's top city garden, in Chinatown.

Surrey's free interactive museum in Historic Cloverdale, with touchscreens, a working textile studio, and walkable antique shops for after.

A 1929 Granville Street ballroom with a dance floor literally built on tires, and Billboard's vote for one of North America's most influential clubs.

Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form is on the Chinese Canadian Museum's second floor through August 15, 2027, and for once nobody will tell you to put the comic down.

Free rotating art galleries in a century-old French-Canadian mansion in Maillardville, with a heritage square and museum out back.

A cavernous 1894 salmon cannery on the Steveston waterfront, with modest admission, clattering machinery, and fish and chips on the dock after.

Over 40 local artisans inside Shaughnessy's Edwardian Hycroft mansion for four days. You'll arrive like a royal on a walkabout and leave like someone who actually has to pay.