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The Royal British Columbia Museum is consistently rated one of the best museums in the world. It features a multitude of displays that educate and entertain, all on the topic of BC's history. If your visit time is limited, I suggest focusing on the permanent galleries and saving the temporary exhibits for last.
On the second floor, the Natural History Gallery features exhibits like the life-sized woolly mammoth, life-sized walk-through dioramas of BC's coast and rainforests, and exhibits about local flora and fauna.
The third floor explores BC's Cultural History. The highlight is the walk-through model of Old Town Victoria, where you can walk through a hotel and look into the rooms, watch a silent movie, see the train go by and look into the windows of the stores in Chinatown. Sounds and smells included! There is also a replica of one of the ships that explored BC hundreds of years ago and exhibits about BC's fishing, farming and mining history. A large portion of the third floor is devoted to the First People's Gallery, showcasing the arts and history of BC's natives.
In April 2007, a special exhibit featuring artifacts from the Titanic opened to the public. Upon entering the gallery visitors will receive a boarding pass with the name of a real passenger; the fate of that passenger is revealed upon exit of the gallery. Admission to the Titanic exhibit is included with regular museum entrance during the summer; a related IMAX film can be seen for an additional charge. Summer 2007 will also mark the opening of a second special exhibit featuring a new collection of First Nations art.
Admission depends on age and whether or not you would like to see an IMAX movie as well. Open seven days a week (9:00 to 5.00 nightly, plus later Friday and Saturday nights during the summer), the museum on it's own takes about two hours to view, plus another ninety minutes for the special exhibit. The lower floor has a gift shop and a great new cafeteria. Leave a Comment Phone: 888 447 7977Directions: At the corner of Belleville and Douglas Street, close to both the Parliament Buildings and the Empress Hotel in downtown Victoria.Website: http://rbcm1.rbcm.gov.bc.ca/
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Even if you are not a Museum fan, you will enjoy this one. The exhibits are nicely organized. There are temporary exhibits, which are very special and permanent exhibits, with lot of thought and imagination invested in them.
We loved especially the FIRST PEOPLES' GALLERY. The culture of the natives of the area, is presented in a very attractive and colorful display
The IMAX Theater is in the museum, and you can buy a combined ticket, and save money Leave a Comment Directions: At the corner of Belleville and Douglas Street, close to both the Parliament Buildings and the Empress Hotel in downtown Victoria.Website: http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
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I toured through the Royal British Columbia Museum for a few hours and was impressed by all its exhibits. The museum showcases British Columbia's natural history, the history of its First Peoples, and its modern history. The natural history section recreates the different outdoor environments of B.C. There's also a First Peoples gallery with totem poles, dwellings, and other artifacts. And, the modern history section displays how people have lived in B.C. from the 1800s to the present. IMAX is on the premises too. An excellent museum! Leave a Comment
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The Royal British Columbia Museum is a place of discovery. Through three unique galleries, the Museum showcases the human and natural history of British Columbia, and features periodic exhibitions of international renown.
Highly realistic and inviting displays, such as the Ice Age and Coastal Forest dioramas, provide visitors with a sense of having truly experienced the authentic settings of many exhibits. Leave a Comment Directions: At the corner of Belleville and Douglas Street, close to both the Parliament Buildings and the Empress Hotel in downtown Victoria.Website: http://rbcm1.rbcm.gov.bc.ca/
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This great museum document's the province's natural and cultural history, from its early Ice Age days when mammoths walked around ice-sheeted plains, to the First Nations tribes, and finally to the modern day. Each exhibit is extensive and documents the many eras very well.
There are also travelling exhibits here, which come and go with monthly frequency.
Finally, the museum is home to Vancouver Island's only IMAX theatre, operated by the National Geographic Society.
The museum is open Monday through Sunday from 9 to 5. Check out their great website for admission prices and other information. Leave a Comment Phone: 1-888-447-7977Directions: Directly across the street from the BC Parliament.Website: http://rbcm1.rbcm.gov.bc.ca/ Other Contact: (250) 356-7226
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What an interesting museum! It's located right downtown beside the provincial buildings on one side and the grand old Empress hotel on the other. In behind the museum is Thunderbird Park where there are about a half dozen or so totem poles. When i was there, there was a special exhibition at the museum called Out of the Mists, the special treasures of the Chiefs of the Nuu-chah-nulth but the English word for the tribes is Nootka. Some of the other west coast tribes are the Haida, Saanich and Tlingit. There were a lot of wooden decorated ceremonial masks and "curtains" in particular.
There is a natural history section with a full size replica of a wooly mammoth.
The third part was focussed on the history of Victoria and B.C. in the last hundred years with reproductions of shops, and businesses, artifacts and costumes and even a half-model of the Cook ship Discovery. Captain Cook was said to have landed in the Vancouver/Victoria area although the cities weren't really established until the mid 19th century. There were settlers, loggers and trappers here and there of course. You couild spend all day in this museum! Leave a Comment
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There are three floors of displays depicting human and natural history of the area. Includes a large room of British Royalty and visits to Victoria, a frontier town, old-growth rain forest with live plants and ocean animals, a fishery, logging mill, etc. Excellent displays and a GEM attraction per the triple A guide.
An IMAX theatre is on site.
High tea is served for $20 per person. Leave a Comment Phone: 1-888-447-7977Directions: Next to the Parliament Building
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The Royal British Columbia Museum has displays of natural landscapes and full-scale reconstructions of Victorian storefronts. It also features outstanding displays on the province's history and culture, as well as national and international touring exhibits. Of particular interest is the northwest Coast Indian exhibit which gives you a great appreciation for the Indian art of the area.
If museums aren't your thing, then it might not be as interesting to you- but it was definitely time well spent in my opinion. Leave a Comment Other Contact: Phone Number: (250) 356-7226 Fa
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Royal British Columbia Museum,
Traces natural history of BC from pre-Ice Age to present day. Leave a Comment
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Excellent permanent exhibits, including local natural history; wicked multi-media marine biology exhibit; awesome exhibit stolen from the First Peoples of the west coast; great kids programmes; excellent environmental research and programming; IMAX theatre. Reasonably-sized museum laid out in an extremely engaging and accessible way. Leave a Comment Other Contact: http://rbcm1.rbcm.gov.bc.ca/ (2
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