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Arts & Culture
Time-Travel the City at the Museum of Vancouver
A flying-saucer building in Vanier Park filled with neon signs, 1950s living rooms, and the city's own messy, fascinating story.
Arts & Culture
A flying-saucer building in Vanier Park filled with neon signs, 1950s living rooms, and the city's own messy, fascinating story.
The Museum of Vancouver is housed in a building shaped like a flying saucer in Vanier Park, which sets expectations correctly from the moment you arrive. Inside, the city tells its own story in the most charming way: you move from 1950s living rooms to a glowing room of salvaged vintage neon signs to sharp shows about counterculture, immigration, and whatever Vancouver is arguing about with itself at the moment. It's a great date because it's full of 'oh my god, my grandma had THAT' moments that naturally make you trade stories about your own pasts. Pay-what-you-can happens on the first Sunday of the month if you're watching the budget. Then walk straight out the door and down to Kits Beach, which is right there, and you've got a whole afternoon sorted.
