Nanaimo District Museum, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC

Nanaimo’s regional museum is a worthwhile introduction to the area’s past, first as a home for the Snunéymuxw (the name from which Nanaimo derives) people and then as a coal mining boomtown. The museum opens July 26th, 2008 in the Port of Nanaimo Centre, adjacent to the Vancouver Island Conference Center.

The new expanded exhibit gallery will portray the unique aspects of Nanaimo’s location, nature and character featuring the Snuneymuxw First Nation, “colorful” citizens, and the coal mining, industrial and social development of the community.

On July 26th, 2008 COME TOUR:
Phase One of Exhibit Gallery
New Program Room
New Administration Area
First-class Artifact Storage and
Display Preparation Areas
Lobby and Gift Shop

Future Phases:
The Sports Hall of Fame ~ opens September 2008

Also opening soon:
Snuneymuxw First Nation Gallery
Coal Mining Exhibit and Tunnel

Be sure to visit the Bastion, the last freestanding, original wooden HBC bastion in North America. For more information please visit our website.
100 Museum Way [tel] 250.753.1821. www.nanaimomuseum.ca. Admission rates are very reasonable. Access the museum from the waterfront or Front St., up Museum Way to the museum entrance in the Port of Nanaimo Centre.