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The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a
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The main exhibit is the ''
The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a maritime museum
A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the militar ...
devoted to presenting the maritime history
Maritime history is the study of human interaction with and activity at sea. It covers a broad thematic element of history that often uses a global approach, although national and regional histories remain predominant. As an academic subject, it ...
of Vancouver
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, British Columbia
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, Canada, and the Canadian Arctic
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. Opened in 1959 as a Vancouver centennial project, it is located within Vanier Park
Vanier Park is a municipal park located in the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, created in 1967. It is home to the Museum of Vancouver, the Vancouver Maritime Museum, the City of Vancouver Archives, and the H.R. Mac ...
just west of False Creek
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on the Vancouver waterfront. The museum is affiliated with CMA, CHIN
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, and Virtual Museum of Canada
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Administered by the Canadian Museum of History (CMH) ...
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Collection
St. Roch
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'', a historic arctic
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exploration vessel used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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. The museum also has extensive galleries of model ship
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s, including one with historic model ships built entirely from cardboard or paper as well as a particularly fine bone model of the French warship ''Vengeur du Peuple'' which was built around 1800 by French prisoners of war, a Children's Maritime Discovery Centre, a recreation of the forecastle of Vancouver's ship ''Discovery'', an extensive collection of maritime art, and a large library and archives.
Outdoor displays include the NASA undersea research vessel ''Ben Franklin'' and the boiler of the ''Beaver'', the first steamship in the Pacific Northwest
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; it also has a small heritage harbour. There is a workshop where visitors can watch craftsmen build models. Of particular significance is the extensive Chung collection of material relating to Canadian Pacific steamships and original hand drawn charts from Captain Cook
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's exploration of the Pacific. This collection is separate from the Wally Chung material housed at the Rare Books and Archives Collection at the University of British Columbia.
See also
*Maritime Museum of British Columbia
The Maritime Museum of British Columbia (MMBC) is a museum in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, that engages people with the maritime culture and history of the Pacific Northwest through rotating exhibits, educational and community-based program ...
* Museum ship
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* List of museum ships
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* Ship replica
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* Ships preserved in museums
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List
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References
External links
* History museums in British Columbia Maritime museums in British Columbia Museums in Vancouver Kitsilano {{Canada-museum-stub