Things to do in Vancouver, Canada: The Best Museums

Since 1996, visitors and collectors alike have appreciated the curated artwork of Canada's First Nations and Inuit people. Affordable prints share space with one-of-a-kind sculptures and fine art.

A leading contemporary fine art gallery representing master Inuit, Northwest Coast and Māori artists. The gallery focuses on exhibitions that showcase contemporary directions in aboriginal art, including cross-cultural communication, the use of new materials (such as glass and metal), and modern interpretations of shamanism, environmental concerns, and other issues pertaining to the changing world.

Contemporary art museum presents rotating exhibitions. Located in a historic building in Vancouver's Chinatown the museum is open FREE to the public on Saturdays through engaging docent led tours. Book your visit on the website.

Serious sneaker collectors love this Cambie Street store featuring its own upscale brand focused on limited-edition designs that double as exquisite works of art and are displayed as such.

This Vancouver Art Gallery is located at 535 Howe Street, it is a meticulous presentation of Fine Original Art with 2 floors boasting spectacular collections in Contemporary, Abstract, Figurative, Landscape, Cityscape and Still Life by Canadian and local Artists. BC's largest collection of Original Old Master paintings and sculptures, Picasso,Renoir,Kandinsky,and more. Free Admission.

Gallery showcasing top-of-the-line Northwest Coast native and Inuit art.

North America's largest Northwest Coast Native art gallery.

The Bill Reid Gallery is the only public Gallery in Canada dedicated to contemporary Indigenous Northwest Coast Art and honours Bill Reid by exhibiting the Bill Reid SFU Art Collection as well as presenting special exhibitions and programs that build bridges between all peoples, including Indigenous and settler populations. The Gallery is conveniently located in the heart of downtown Vancouver and can be found within a short walking distance from the Canada Line’s City Centre Station located in Pacific Centre or the Millenium/Expo Line’s Burrard Station.

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery first opened its door in 2005 on South Granville’s Gallery Row. After the collection has quadrupled in size the gallery had to look for a bigger location and moved to its current address, to the heart of Downtown Vancouver. The collection is primarily focused on graphic works of the Modern Masters, including Pablo PICASSO, Salvador DALI, Marc CHAGALL, Joan MIRO and Henri MATISSE. In addition, we also offer works by REMBRANDT, Pierre-Auguste RENOIR, Edgar DEGAS, Edouard MANET, Andy WARHOL and a variety of others. The gallery launched the Definitely Dali project in May 2017, which will be on till the end of September. The featured sculpture of the project, Salvador Dali's Dance of Time I, is on public display at Hornby and W. Hastings Street, 3 blocks from the gallery. There are also close to 100 Dali works showcased in the gallery, beside the works by the other masters.