Explore Victoria
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The Royal BC Museum is the provincial museum of British Columbia, founded in 1886 and set on Victoria's Inner Harbour between the Parliament Buildings and the Empress hotel. Its galleries cover the natural and human history of the province, with a model of a woolly mammoth among the exhibits, and the building also houses an IMAX theatre.
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Emily Carr House is the birthplace and childhood home of the painter and writer Emily Carr, in Victoria's James Bay neighbourhood. The Italianate wooden house was built in 1863 for her father Richard Carr and restored by the province from 1976 to its 19th-century appearance. It is a provincial and national historic site with rooms furnished in the style of Carr's childhood.
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The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is an art museum in Victoria's Rockland neighbourhood, founded in 1946 and housed since 1951 in the 1889 Spencer Mansion with exhibition galleries added between 1955 and 1978. Its collection of more than 20,000 works covers Canadian and Indigenous art, art from Asia and across the Pacific Rim, and paintings by Emily Carr.
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