Thompson Okanagan Museums
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Rated as one of the best museums in the interior. Explore Ashcroft during the late 1800's, examine First Nation handcrafts & local history & see China Town in its heyday.
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The BC Orchard Industry Museum is housed in the historic Laurel Packinghouse and explores the Okanagan's roots in the tree fruit industry. The Laurel Packinghouse was built over the winter of 1917/1918 and is Kelowna's first designated heritage building. It operated as a fruit packinghouse until the 1970s, and today it is home to the BC Orchard Industry Museum and the BC Wine Museum & VQA Wine Shop. Features engaging displays on irrigation, fruit picking, packing and more. Includes a 15 m (50 ft) working model railroad. Call (250) 868-4836 for information on booking a guided tour.
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Taste, learn about & buy BC Vintner's Quality Alliance wines. Choose from over 400 listings of wines. The VQA Wine Shop is open 7 days a week & offers free daily wine tastings of award-winning British Columbia wines. Located inside the historic Laurel Packinghouse in Kelowna's Cultural District. Selling unique gifts & glassware, books & souvenirs. The VQA Wine Shop is just 1 block from the Delta Grand hotel & Okanagan Lake. Join the staff the first Thursday of every month for the Neighbourhood Nosh, a complimentary wine tasting with appetizers from 4 pm - 6 pm. See you at Nosh.
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Visit Kamloops' premier history museum. The Kamloops Museum features 3 floors of local natural, First Nations & cultural history. See the new New BC Fly Fishing Gallery, Geology Cave, Children's Museum & First Peoples Secwepemc exhibits in 2009. Guided Heritage Tours upon request.
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Featured among our many displays are the four corner stones of our development: mining, ranching, logging & the railway. Pioneers, First Nations, James Teit & The Cowboy Judge Henry Castillou are also part of our historic collection portraying the way we were.
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Visit the Okanagan Heritage Museum & experience its engaging permanent Exhibition Gallery & Natural History Gallery. The Museum's special Exhibition Gallery provides a home to new & exciting exhibitions curated by the Museum. Learn about the social & natural histories of the region at the Okanagan Heritage Museum, just one of the four Kelowna Museums. Also visit: BC Orchard Industry Museum, BC Wine Museum & VQA Wine Shop, & the Okanagan Military Museum. All four museums are located downtown in Kelowna's Cultural District in a two block radius. For information on guided tours, please call our toll-free number.
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The Okanagan Military Museum is dedicated to the preservation and awareness of Okanagan military heritage. This museum houses a significant collection of small arms, uniforms, badges, equipment and artefacts from every major war of the last one hundred years. The Okanagan Military Museum is dedicated to the men and women who have served and continue to serve in the Canadian Forces. Dedicated to Canada's committment to peace and remembrance. For information about booking a guided tour for your group please call (250)868-4836.
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Step into an unforgettable miniature fantasy world. Follow computer controlled Marklin trains as they meander through incredibly detailed European style towns & landscaping. 1200 buildings & 9000 hand painted little people adorn this 279 sq m (3000 sq ft) attraction.
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Stop by the Summerland Museum, where the spirit of our pioneers comes alive! Starting with the days of the Okanagan First Nations, to first contact with the fur traders along the Brigade Trail, Summerland's history goes back to BC's beginnings over 150 years ago. Discover Summerland's early settlement days when the Development Company under Sir Thomas Shaughnessy enticed optimistic fruit ranchers to the Okanagan Valley. Visit a tent house, the first home of many Summerlanders. Trace the history of the Kettle Valley Railway & Dominion Experimental Farm as the town grew through two townsites & blossomed into a charming community.
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In the Sunshine Valley famous for Borscht lies friendly Grand Forks, 20 km west of Christina Lake on scenic Crowsnest Hwy 3 located in the heritage Courthouse building built in 1912 located at 524 Central Avenue. Paved parking available; turn south onto Fifth Street across from public library and picturesque Gyro Park. Art Gallery & museum on location. Doukhobor history and quaint downtown shopping district. Farmers Market June to October on Tue & Fri.
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