Arts & Culture
Get Lost in the Vancouver Art Gallery
A former courthouse holding the world's largest Emily Carr collection, and free from 4 to 8pm on the first Friday of every month.
Downtown (Robson Square)
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A former courthouse holding the world's largest Emily Carr collection, and free from 4 to 8pm on the first Friday of every month.
Downtown (Robson Square)
More infoThe Vancouver Art Gallery is a former courthouse haunted by magnificent art, and it's not a bad trade. It holds the largest Emily Carr collection on earth, plus sharp contemporary and Indigenous work and touring shows people queue around the block for. The budget move: admission is free on the first Friday of each month, 4 to 8pm, and booking ahead guarantees entry. Walk in free, walk out with opinions.
If you're watching the budget, the free first-Friday window (4 to 8pm) is the insider move; otherwise just walk in and dive into the largest Emily Carr collection on earth plus the ambitious touring shows. Go slow, skip the wall text you find boring, and find the one painting you'd fight each other to take home; budget about two hours. There's plenty to argue about over coffee after, right in the heart of downtown.
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