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Thompson Okanagan Things To Do

 
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The museums of the Thompson Okanagan focus on local history, the people, industries and events that figured largely in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Princeton District Pioneer Museum also features an extensive fossil and mineral collection. While there are plenty of fascinating collections of artifacts and detailed interpretive displays - the sort you'd expect to find in any museum anywhere - most of the region's museums endeavour to create interactive learning opportunities as well. You can, for example, sit in an old stagecoach, hold a 4,000-year-old fossil in your hand or step inside a Shuswap tule mat lodge.

 



Boundary Museum

The Boundary Museum brings the history of Grand Forks and surrounding areas to life with displays of everyday items used by local people in the distant and not-so-distant past. Aboriginal artifacts are featured prominently, as are displays dedicated to the area's early Doukhobor and Chinese communities as well as the mining industry.



Princeton District Pioneer Museum

This museum celebrates the area's colourful pioneer history through exhibits of period photos, vehicles, everyday items, clothing and furniture. The museum is also home to the world-famous Pollard fossil and mineral collection, an extensive display of minerals, gems and fossils from the Princeton area and around the world.



Secwepemc Museum & Heritage Park



You can really experience history at the Secwepemc Museum & Heritage Park in Kamloops. 

Along more than one km (0.6 mi) of trails through the park you'll encounter a reconstructed summer village, the archaeological remains of a 2,000-year-old Shuswap winter village and the Secwepemc Ethnobotanical Gardens.

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