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Science World is a science centre at the eastern end of False Creek, housed in the geodesic dome built as Expo Centre for the Expo 86 world's fair. It opened as a science centre in 1989 and is run by a not-for-profit society. Its galleries hold hands-on exhibits on physics, the body, nature and technology, along with changing exhibitions.

The Vancouver Art Gallery is an art museum on Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, founded in 1931. Since 1983 it has occupied the former provincial courthouse designed by Francis Rattenbury, a National Historic Site. Its collection of about 12,000 works covers art from British Columbia, including a large group of paintings by Emily Carr, and from around the world.

The Bill Reid Gallery on Hornby Street in downtown Vancouver is devoted to the Haida artist Bill Reid (1920–1998) and to contemporary Indigenous art of the Northwest Coast. Its permanent collection includes his 8.5-metre bronze frieze Mythic Messengers, carvings, masks and gold and silver jewellery, beside changing exhibitions.

The Museum of Vancouver is the city's civic history museum, founded in 1894 and housed in Vanier Park in a round building with a conical roof that it shares with the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. Its galleries follow Vancouver through the 20th century, decade by decade, beside Indigenous belongings and changing exhibitions.

The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre is an astronomy museum in Vanier Park that opened on 28 October 1968 under the conical roof it shares with the Museum of Vancouver. Its Planetarium Star Theatre shows 360-degree dome films about the solar system and the universe, and the centre adds live science demonstrations and an interactive gallery.

The Vancouver Maritime Museum in Vanier Park opened in 1959 and tells the maritime history of Vancouver and the Canadian Arctic. Its A-frame building was raised around the St. Roch, an RCMP schooner built in 1928 that sailed the Northwest Passage in both directions. Galleries show ship models, maritime art and a children's discovery centre.

The Museum of Anthropology stands on the University of British Columbia campus in western Vancouver, in a concrete and glass building by Arthur Erickson that opened in 1976. Its Great Hall holds totem poles from Haida and other First Nations villages, and it shows Bill Reid's cedar sculpture The Raven and the First Men among some 50,000 objects.