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BC Sports Hall Of Fame & Museum
Located inside BC Place Stadium, the small but perfectly formed Sports Hall of Fame showcases top BC athletes, both amateur and professional, with special galleries devoted to each decade in sports.
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Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives
Check out this museum for a deeper understanding of the often-turbulent history of Vancouver's Chinese immigrants. Changing exhibits are on the main floor, while the 2nd floor's permanent collection highlights Gold Rush history and Chinatown settlement. It also houses the Military Museum, showcasing the sometimes unsung role of Chinese-Canadian soldiers in both world wars.
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Contemporary Art Gallery
Originally the Greater Vancouver Artists' Gallery, this small, off-the-beaten-path art space transformed itself into an independent gallery in 1996, moving to a crisp, purpose-built facility in 2001. It focuses on a wide range of modern art, but photography is particularly well represented here. Exhibitions are ever-changing and include local and international artists - check the gallery's website for artist events and exhibition openings.
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Emily Carr Institute Of Art & Design
Named after BC's most famous historic painter, the institute is well regarded for its visual- and media-arts programs. Housed in a corrugated metal factory building near a cement plant, it has a gritty, angst-worthy vibe that matches that of its young students.
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Gulf Of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site
Once you've perused the boats hawking the day's fresh catch, Steveston's main attraction is the old-school cannery, now transformed into an excellent industrial heritage museum that explores the sights and sounds (and smells) of the region's bygone era of labour-intensive fish processing.
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Hr Macmillan Space Centre
Popular with packs of marauding school kids - expect to have to elbow them out of the way to push the flashing buttons - this high-tech science center illuminates the eye-opening world of space. There's plenty of fun to be had battling aliens, designing a spacecraft or strapping yourself in for a simulator ride to Mars, and there are also movie presentations on all manner of spacey themes.
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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.
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Museum Of Anthropology
As of 2 September, 2008, the Museum of Anthropology will be closed for renovations. It is scheduled to reopen on 3 March, 2009. Public programs will continue to be held offsite - check their website for details.
With Canada's best display of northwest-coast First Nations artifacts in a spectacular waterfront setting, this is Vancouver's best museum. The totem poles alone - displayed against a wall of glass overlooking the coastline - are worth the admission.
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Pendulum Gallery
A creative use for the cavernous atrium of the city's main HSBC Bank Building - you'll be overlooking the cash machines and smiling bank tellers - this gallery offers an ever-changing roster of temporary exhibitions. It's mostly new art, and can range from striking paintings to challenging photographs and quirky arts and crafts.
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Roedde House Museum & Barclay Heritage Square
For a glimpse of what pioneer-town Vancouver looked like before the glass towers, drop by this handsome 1893 Queen Anne-style mansion, now a lovingly preserved museum. Designed by infamous BC architect Francis Rattenbury, the house is packed with period antiques and the surrounding gardens planted in period style. Sunday entry, including tea and cookies in the garden, costs around C$1 extra.
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Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Those interested in the history of the Canadian Pacific Railway should visit the Roundhouse, formerly a CPR repair shed. It now houses handsome Engine No 374 (www.wcra.org/engine374), which brought the first passenger train into the city in 1887. Yaletown was once a busy locomotive hub, and rail lines are still embedded in the streets around the area.
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Science World & Alcan Omnimax Theatre
Nestled under the city's gleaming geodesic dome (or 'silver golf ball' as the locals often call it) are two levels of hands-on science, technology and natural-history exhibits aimed at satisfying the most enquiring of minds. It's an ideal place to bring kids - the gallery that explores sustainability issues is recommended, along with the water course of ball cannons and bridges. Expect to spend at least a few hours here.
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University Town
Although surrounded by undeveloped waterfront and enjoying a verdant, tree-lined location, the UBC campus - complete with 44,000 students - is a bustling, building-packed minicity. If you have the time, it's worth a day out from downtown since there's plenty to do here and lots of easy-to-find lunch and coffee spots. Consider a free walking tour to get your bearings.
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Vancouver Art Gallery
Once a disappointing regional gallery with nothing more than a clutch of Emily Carr canvases to recommend it, the VAG - housed in an old courthouse but rumored to be moving to a new downtown location soon - has dramatically transformed in recent years, becoming a vital part of the city's cultural scene.
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Vancouver Maritime Museum
The final member of the triumvirate - it's a five-minute walk west of the Vancouver Museum - this library-quiet attraction combines dozens of intricate model ships with some detailed recreated boat sections and a few historic vessels. The main draw is the St Roch , a 1928 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Arctic patrol sailing ship that was the first vessel to navigate the legendary Northwest Passage in both directions.
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Vancouver Museum
One of the three well-established educational attractions clustered together in Vanier Park, the Vancouver Museum recounts both distant and recent city history. It includes some colorful displays on 1950s pop culture and 1960s hippy counterculture - a reminder that Kits was once the grass-smoking center of Vancouver's flower-power movement.
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Vancouver Police Centennial Museum
Colorfully charting the city's murky criminal past, displays at this excellent little museum include an autopsy room with pieces of damaged body parts posted on the wall (note the brain with a .22 caliber bullet in it) and an exhibit describing how to determine a corpse's age via insects (blowflies appear in 15 days, cheese-skippers in 40 days).
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Vancouver Public Library
This spectacular, Roman Colosseum-like building must be a temple to the great god of libraries. If not, it's certainly one of the world's most magnificent public library facilities. Built in 1995, it contains 1.2 million books and other items spread out over seven levels, all of them seemingly populated by language students silently learning English from textbooks.
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