Rainy Day
Step Back in Time at the Maple Ridge Museum & Haney House
A by-donation heritage museum with a world-class model railway, and a real 1880s home next door to wander through.
Port Haney, Fraser River waterfront
More infoRainy Day
A by-donation heritage museum with a world-class model railway, and a real 1880s home next door to wander through.
Port Haney, Fraser River waterfront
More infoThe Maple Ridge Museum and Haney House suit two people who are wet, indecisive, and agreed only on 'not far.' The museum runs from First Nations prehistory through logging history and springs a world-class model-railway diorama of old Port Haney you will not see coming. Next door on the Fraser waterfront, walk room by room through a preserved 1880s home. Admission to both is by donation.
Time it right, the museum and Haney House are only open Thursday through Sunday, 10am to 4pm, so this is a weekend-or-late-week date, not a Monday backup plan. Start in the museum, where admission is by donation (drop something real in the box, it's a community-run nonprofit) and the local history runs from First Nations prehistory to the railway-logging era. Don't miss the world-class model-railway diorama of Port Haney at the height of the logging boom, it's the surprise hit that even people who 'don't do museums' end up leaning over. Then walk to neighbouring Haney House, the preserved 1880s family home, and poke through actual period rooms rather than glass cases. Timing trick: it sits down in Port Haney near the Fraser waterfront, so on a clear-ish day pair it with a short riverfront stroll, and on a properly wet one warm up afterward at a downtown cafe a couple of minutes away.
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