Below is a list of 30 museums in the greater Vancouver area. They include art galleries, history museums, historic sites, and old preserved homes and business.

Some of the places are free while with others you have to pay for admission.

1. BC Sports Hall of Fame – a sports history museum at BC Place Stadium in downtown Vancouver.
2. Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art – an Indigenous art museum in downtown Vancouver.
3. Britannia Heritage Shipyard – a national historic site with a collection of buildings in the fishing village of Steveston Village in Richmond.
4. Britannia Mine – a museum between Vancouver and Squamish which used to be the largest copper mine in the British Empire.
5. Burnaby Village Museum – an outdoor attraction that includes a selection of relocated and reconstructed buildings in Burnaby.
6. Canadian Museum of Flight – an airplane museum in Langley.
7. Chinese Canadian Museum – a museum in Chinatown that showcases the history of Chinese Canadians.
8. Engine 374 – a small museum in Yaletown that’s home to the first locomotive to arrive in Vancouver well over 100 years ago.
9. Fort Langley National Historic Site – a reproduction of the original Hudson’s Bay Company fort and home to buildings of historical significance.
10. Gulf of Georgia Cannery – a national historic site and former salmon cannery in Steveston Village in Richmond.
11. Haney House – a historic home that is now a museum in Maple Ridge.
12. H.R. MacMillan Space Centre – a space museum that has a theatre, displays and a planetarium at Vanier Park.
13. Kilby Historic Site – a former farm, general store and hotel in Harrison Mills in the Fraser Valley.
14. London Farm – a heritage home and farm in Richmond.
15. Mackin House Museum – located in Coquitlam, the former home of the general manager of what was once the largest sawmill in BC.
16. Maple Ridge Museum – a former home and now a historic site in Maple Ridge.
17. MONOVA – the Museum of North Vancouver near the Shipyards on Vancouver’s North Shore.
18. Museum of Anthropology – an anthropological museum at the University of British Columbia’s main Vancouver campus.
19. Museum of Surrey – a history museum in Cloverdale with free admission.
20. Museum of Vancouver – a museum full of Vancouver history and artifacts at Vanier Park.
21. Nikkei National Museum – a small museum at the Nikkei Cultural Centre in Burnaby.
22. Old Hastings Mill Store Museum – Vancouver’s oldest still-existing building is in Kitsilano and full of artifacts.
23. Polygon Gallery – a contemporary art museum in North Vancouver that’s focused on photography.
24. POMO Museum – formerly the Port Moody Station Museum located near Rocky Point Park in Port Moody.
25. Roedde House Museum – a heritage home that’s now a museum in Vancouver’s West End.
26. Railway Museum of BC – a train museum with both indoor and outdoor exhibits in Squamish.
27. Stewart Farm – a heritage home at Elgin Heritage Park in South Surrey not far from Crescent Beach.
28. Vancouver Art Gallery – an art museum in what was originally the provincial courthouse designed by Sir Francis Rattenbury.
29. Vancouver Maritime Museum – a museum showcasing the history of the Pacific Northwest and Arctic.
30. Vancouver Police Museum – a museum about the city’s police and crime in Vancouver’s downtown East Side.

In addition to the above, there are “museum honorable mentions” too. They include places like the following:

• Flyover Canada – a multidimensional theatre at Canada Place in downtown Vancouver. It’s not a museum, but it does showcase Canada in a fun and unique visual way.
• Greater Vancouver Zoo – an attraction in the Fraser Valley  that’s full of a wide range of both native and exotic animals. It’s kind of like a giant outdoor museum where the exhibits are living animals.