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Broke & Bougie
Chase Murals Through Mount Pleasant
300-plus murals mapped free on the VMF app around Main Street. A treasure hunt with very large prizes.
Broke & Bougie
300-plus murals mapped free on the VMF app around Main Street. A treasure hunt with very large prizes.
Mount Pleasant is essentially a free art gallery that forgot to put up walls, and nobody has corrected the oversight. Over years of the Vancouver Mural Festival, 300-plus large-scale murals have accumulated on the brick and stucco around Main Street, Mount Pleasant, Chinatown, and Strathcona, and you can walk the whole lot for $0. The move: download the free VMF app, which maps 400-plus geolocations with routes and artist stories, then pick a loop and turn the walk into a competitive treasure hunt. Who spots the next giant face? Who finds the best hidden detail? Who picks the superior selfie backdrop? Every August, new murals go up live, so the 'we've done this walk before' conversation ends with 'not quite.' Bring coffee, wear comfortable shoes, and plan to spend more time than you expected.
