The Royal BC Museum is located at the inner harbour of Victoria. It was founded in 1886 and is one of the most important museums in Canada focusing on history, anthropology and natural history. Core of the museum and its archive are the collection of items belonging to the 198 tribes of the First Nations at British Columbia (BC). While these were sometimes bought and sometimes taken away in the past, the relationship of the First Nations and the museum of improved massively in the recent past and the items are reconnected to the tribes.
The so-called First Peoples Gallery is only one section of the Royal BC Museum. A second area which felt surprisingly good is the Natural History Gallery showing the flora and fauna of British Columbia especially using large dioramas. Meet some grizzly bears, mammoths and sea lions; learn something about climate and geological changes over time.
The third section is the Modern History Gallery that lets you walk through a town at the turning point between the 18th and 19th century, see a reconstruction of the HMS Discovery (with which George Vancouver arrived) and you can learn a bit about gold mining back in the days. The museum is quite good for a regional history museum, but there is still room for improvement.
Royal BC Museum
Victoria
Vancouver Island
British Columbia
Canada
https://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
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