Model Trains Museum & Model Ships Museum

Of the twin museums discreetly housed here under one roof, the train museum wins hands down. With one of the world’s largest toy locomotive collections – there are so many that only a lucky few get to rattle around the giant BC railway layout – it will be rare if you don’t spot a reminder or two from your childhood. There are no similarly exciting moving displays in the downstairs ship museum, but there are still some intriguing, highly detailed model freighters, frigates and submarines – check out that Nautilus. Expect to see several excited fathers trying unsuccessfully to interest their kids in schooner rigging and double-O gauges here.