Royal British Columbia Museum

See all of BC at the Royal BC Museum. Experience galleries & immerse yourself in the tales of where we've been & where we are going. Discover things & people you never knew before. Experience authentic artifacts in highly realistic immersive settings - from Woolly Mammoth in his rocky, icy world, to a trip on the tar-scented HMS Discovery. Stroll through Old Town's wood-cobbled street, enjoy its shops, cinema & railway station. May 16, 2014-Nov 11, 2014 the Viking Invasion begins. With more than 500 artifacts - jewellery, swords, axes & clothing -some rare & many which have never before been shown outside Scandinavia. Providing insights on domestic life, death rituals, the significance of craft, the power of mythology & the symbolism of ships, some of which challenge our commonly held beliefs about Vikings.