“Regularly ranked as one of the top ten museums in North
America, Victoria’s Royal British Columbia is as much fun for kids as for
adults and as intriguing to locals as to foreigners. Visitors can walk through
the province’s history from the Ice Age (the 10 foot wooly mammoth is a
guaranteed hit with children) to its mining and fishing heritage, with lifelike
dioramas…”
This really is a fun museum; they’ve even recreated a whole
old-timey town including a movie theater.
They also have realistic background sounds of trains, blacksmiths, sea
birds (in the boat exhibit), etc. I witnessed actual kids having a blast
running around and discovering all the hidden rooms and things to do and see.
The museum must sit near the government buildings (in fact, I’m sure of it since a cross street is Government Street), and I’m not sure if this is an everyday thing or if it’s protest season in BC, but there were “protesters” outside every time I drove through the area. I’m putting quotes around “protester” because the main theme I saw was pro-vaccine folks holding signs like, “Honk if you love science!”; “Honk if you love being double-vaxxed” etc. I did see a smaller group protesting, I’m assuming, logging because they had save the trees themed signs.
