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Originally Posted by Vancity
haha...i didn't even know we had a museum either. this might be a silly question, but where is the museum located? on a side note, i was just thinking about the vancouver zoo. most cities have their zoos within the city. why is ours near abbotsford? i've been to it once, and never went back. it's so small, and a bit, in my opinion, out of place. the zoo should be a tourist attraction, but ours is like a small town zoo - almost directed to locals only. i personally think they should relocate the zoo to somewhere a bit closer to vancouver proper (burnaby? richmond?), or if possible IN vancouver?
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The Vancouver Museum, or rather Museum of Vancouver, is located at Vanier Park in Kitsilano just west of Burrard Bridge. It has been there since the 1950s.
Both the MoV and space centre are under one roof:
Terrible locations for museums....and of course, the Maritime Museum is located about one km west.
And considering it barely draws 60,000 people a year, can't blame you for not knowing it exists. And I'm sure local NIMBY's forcing the city to ban tourists in their neighbourhood contributed to it.
Once upon a time, Vancouver did have a zoo in its own backyard....in Stanley Park. However, I've gotta admit the animals were far too crowded and in spaces that were unsuitable (though imo, they were treated much better than the animals at the Aldergrove zoo today). Hippies and animal activists got their way, and the city held a referendum on the future of the Stanley Park zoo. The decision was that it would be closed, and so it did in the 1990's. I was pretty young back then, and I remember faintly images of monkeys there. They also had penguins, giraffes, elephants, lions, polar bears, grizzlies, and bunch more....the animals were moved to other zoos, mainly the Aldergrove facility.
Right now, the Aquarium has expansion plans that would basically take over most of the former zoo's lands.
I gotta agree with you....I've proposed before that we should move the Aldergrove facility to Hastings Park.