What Can You Find in Vancouver’s Museums and Galleries?

What Can You Find in Vancouver’s Museums and Galleries?

Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery

750 Hornby Street, Vancouver B.C.

The Vancouver Art Gallery is the largest art gallery in Western Canada. It is located in the downtown core of Vancouver. The Vancouver Art Gallery is one of the most respected in Canada. This is the home to international traveling pieces from various artists. It also houses 200 permanent pieces by the noteworthy Emily Carr, a local British Columbian.

Because of this deep collection of historical pieces, people refer The Vancouver Art Gallery as an art museum rather than just an art gallery. It is the Time-honored architecture and a centralized location that surely makes the Vancouver Art Gallery a popular host to indoor & outdoor public events.

This characteristic add to the city's beauty along with all sorts of creative types entertain that can be seen everyday.

Vancouver: Equinox

2321 Granville Street, Vancouver B.C.

More galleries? Equinox is the most popular gallery in Vancouver. This is because Equinox’s only goal is to display art of the highest quality. These artworks are from internationally renowned Canadian sculptors, printmakers, photographers, and painters. Artworks that can bee seen here, although not overtly controversial or tense, displays from high realism to abstract. You can find Equinox through the address above.

Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery

555 Nelson Street, Vancouver B.C.

From 1971, Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery has grown from a Canadian Government. This is the only non-profit public art gallery in downtown Vancouver. In 2005 the Contemporary Art Gallery collaborated with Rethink Communications to create a "Button Wall." You can find over 50,000 buttons pinned to the gallery's exterior. Each of these pin has an individual word which represents one of a hundred possible responses to contemporary art. Having to see such great event, people who visit are allowed to take as many buttons as they want. This is one of their ways of promoting contemporary art.

Also, the Contemporary Art Gallery stands from other Vancouver galleries. This is because not only exhibits visual art can be seen here but it also facilitates education and outreach programs. Public talks, publications generation, and more can be held here.

Vancouver: Museum of Anthropology

6393 Northwest Marine Drive, Vancouver B.C.

You can find the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. The Museum of Anthropology focuses on local First Nations art. You can find inside a stunning collection of First Nation totem poles, tools, and weaponry. Some of these items are held at the Museum's Visible Storage Gallery. The Museum's Visible Storage Gallery houses over 15,000 historic artifacts. You can find here the world's largest collection of works by Bill Reid, an internationally recognized Haida artist. You can also find here Reid’s most popular piece, "Raven and the First Men."

Vancouver: Roedde House Museum

1415 Barclay Street, Vancouver B.C.

This Roedde House Museum is built in 1893. It is a late-Victorian home restored to represent the day-to-day life of a middle class family at the turn of the last century. You can find here that unlike other house museums, the rooms here are not roped off neither it is behind glass. By visiting here you can touch some of the house's objects just be careful to handle it with care. 

During your tour here, there is a tour guide that will be guiding you that offers lecture series and elementary school packages. Also, the house and park area that surrounds it where other heritage houses can be found dating from 1890 to 1908, can be rented for weddings, meetings, receptions, photo shoots, and other private events.

Vancouver: Museum of Vancouver

1100 Chestnut Street Vancouver, BC

Finally, the Museum of Vancouver! This museum is the largest civic museum in Canada. This museum houses over 100,000 objects. You can easily head there for its location is just across the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver's Vanier Park. The Museum of Vancouver is proud of its permanent exhibits which date back to the early 1900's. These items are very important to Vancouver’s history for these illustrate Vancouver's story. Vancouver's past, present, and future can be seen here.

Indeed, The Museum of Vancouver will make your vacation a lot worthwhile.