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The Chinese Cultural Centre is a Chinese community centre, museum, and municipal archives facility located in
Vancouver Chinatown Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is Canada's largest Chinatown. Centered around Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown to the north, the Downtown financial and central business districts to the west, the Geo ...
. It was founded in 1973 and opened to the public in 1980. It houses the
Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society The Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society (CCMMS) is located in Vancouver, on the second floor of the Chinese Cultural Centre. It was created in 1998 and maintains a museum in that city. The museum has given temporary displays to the Canadia ...
on the second floor. In April 2020, the facility was vandalized with graffiti that is linked to the
COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia The COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia forms part of an ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On January 28, 202 ...
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