New Westminster Museum

Great location. Good, fun, modern space.

Nice and quiet, I like the artworks displayed

A small museum, but nonetheless very interesting!! Entry by donation. I was the only person in the museum, so it was nice and quiet. I finished in 1 hour and I read everything. A perfect rainy afternoon activity!

Good place to bring the family or on your own. Great way to learn about New Westminster history.

Hidden away museum in a beautiful building on Columbia St. Easy to miss, but if you catch it this little place is a wonderful 15-30 minute self-guided tour of some interesting artifacts, the history of New Westminster, and the origins of British Columbia. It’s also in the same building as the New Westminster archives if looking at old papers is your thing.Completely free, air conditioned, and public washrooms available (great to stop in for a cool down on these hot summer days!). The lobby also has an abundance of brochures and guides for events and places to visit all around B.C.

An interesting small local museum. It is free and no one around

Small, free, under staffed, no one around archives are only open on Thursday 10-5. Very small museum attached to Lacrosse Hall of Fame

I wonder where the original Globe Saloon, owned by John Deighton, AKA Gassy Jack, was. Somewhere on Front Street. 150 years ago, this July 4th, that place was ruined, because a friend of John celebrated the Fourth of July at his expense. This was the prequel to the creation of GasTown, and it started somewhere around here.

We looked at a well presented history of New Westminster section then onto a very interesting but bizarre art installationThe then showed us the room where they give artificial intelligence workshop. All in all an interesting afternoon!

Nestled like a fine pearl inside an absurdly-shaped clam, this museum is a must if you have children and a spare 7 minutes. We thought we would risk a little visit to try to up our family class level (actually, that’s a lie - there was Lego. Very cool replication of parts of the city). With only the five-year-old and the one-year-old in tow, it was great to look at donated artefacts of the city’s history, with only the sound of one wolverine trying to chew its own foot off to get out of the stroller, and the ever-present request to know what else there is to see. Because our three-year-old was at Grandma’s and Grandpa’s house today, I thought we may actually get out of the museum without one of the motion-activated noise alarms going off from getting too close to the 100-year-old cars. Alas, a respectful, 65-year-old car enthusiast stood too close, and our oldest went tearing over to see what the alarm was, and got a chance to tell on the perpetrator all the same. A perfect 4 out of 5 stars.