The North Vancouver Museum & Archives has both permanent exhibits and ones that are on loan from other Museums and is a place the family or the business person can spend the day. There is a collection of the rich history of Northern Vancouver that includes the waterfront industries, domestic artifacts. The domestic artifacts include furniture, kitchen equipment and other items.
The industrial collection has items that were used in logging and lumber mills of the past, hand tools and machine tools. There is photographs, text documents and other items for those visitors that are interested in the early ship building industry. In total the Museum has over 15,000 artifacts for visitors to see that will take them back to the past. The North Vancouver Museum & Archive also have some Salish Indian artifacts in their collection that are unique.
The North Vancouver Museum & Archives is also home to a collection of more than 40,000 historic photographs, as much as 1600 feet of record documents and more. Housed here are directories, an index for building permits, school records and cemetery records, making it the perfect place for the visitor that is doing their family genealogy with the collection that dates back to when the Europeans arrived.
This is a place where learning is a part of the fun and there are special events for the young members of the family for them to learn about the early life in North Vancouver. The adults in the family will find they will also be educated in everything from ship building to the lumber trade, in a way that is exciting. It will be a full day for any visitor to North Vancouver when it is spent in the North Vancouver Museum & Archives while visiting the city.
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