Royal BC Museum, British Columbia, Canada
4.5 (7.124 reviews) Tuesday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #14 in Vancouver Island Speciality Museums
So good I wanted to return
See all of British Columbia at the Royal BC Museum, a world-class museum of natural and human history. Explore our core galleries and immerse yourself in tales of where we've been and where we are going. Marvel at the totems, masks and cultural treasures featured in the world-class First Peoples Gallery. Walk through the colourful "language forest" in Our Living Languages and hear greetings in one of 34 Indigenous BC languages. Experience authentic artifacts and highly realistic settings -- from the Woolly Mammoth in his rocky, icy world to a tar-scented trip on the HMS Discovery.
Address
675 Belleville St, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 1A1 Canada
Mobile
Website
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
Working hours
Monday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Tuesday, May 07, 2024, 1:18
User Ratings
4.5 based on (7.124 reviews)
Reviews
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5Lady Traveller P 5:00 PM Oct 6, 2022
I never knew Canada had such a dark history
This museum is undergoing some work so is not all open at the moment. What we did see was two very moving exhibitions. The first one about covid and the effect it had on the people of Vancouver Island. The second was a much darker side of Canada's history in the way they treated the Japanese immigrant families, who had been settled for many generations in the country after world war 2. I defy anyone to read and hear these stories and not be moved. As I come from the UK I know what it is to be ashamed of your own countries, mistreatment of immigrant families. Our own history is shameful going back many centuries. Somehow as a newer country built by immigrants I mistakenly thought Canada would be a more tolerant country. The way they treated their own citizens of Japanese extraction, was on par to how Hitler treated the Jews. The only thing the Canadians didn't do was actually exterminate them. They did leave them to starve to death though. Until this day these people have not had there property or business returned or compensated for. I believe it has recognised that the treatment metered out to them was wrong. Canada, get your act together and sort this out. If a museum exhibition can affect you in this way. Then it is doing its job. They had a very good exhibition on climate change as well. But I think Canada has a long way to go to get that under control.
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4diesel1129 5:00 PM Apr 18, 2021
Orca Wow!
The new orca exhibit is amazing! It’s hard to plan with young kids, but we booked a time slot (covid restrictions) and made it work! Security was good with checking times and limiting capacity in certain exhibits. The museum has arrows on the ground indicating travel direction through exhibits, but if followed, much will be missed. We had to backtrack or double around a lot of rooms/areas to see everything. We spent 2hrs in the museum with small kids and they managed to west masks the entire time with complaints. Security is very present which is slightly annoying and irritating, but we understood their reasoning. Overall, the museum is adapting to Covid restrictions as best they can well still allowing guests to visit. It’s pricey for small kids, but adult admission is worth it.
