The Royal British Columbia Museum is a Human and Natural History Museum. It has the First Peoples Gallery, Old Towne, and life size showcases of most of the flaura and fauna in Brtish Columbia.
The Mungo Martin House is a Kwakwaka'wakw house in Thunderbird Park. Painted across the housefront is the face of a giant sea monster in the form of a spiny fish called a sculpin. It is named after it's the Kwakwaka'wakw artist, Chief Mungo Martin.
The totem poles in Thunderbird Park were carved by Kwakwaka'wakw Chief Mungo Martin and his associates Henry and Tony Hunt. Henry and Tony Hunt are the artistic successors of Chief Mungo Martin who founded the carving program here in Thunderbird Park about 1952.
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HOURS OF OPERATION
Museum: Saturday through Wednesday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
NEW - Thursday and Friday 9 a.m. to 7:45 p.m.
IMAX: Monday to Sunday 9 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Closed Christmas Day and New Years Day.
PHONE: 250.356.RBCM (7226) Toll Free: 1-888-447-7977
Fax: 250.356.8197
General admission is valid for the day of purchase and is non-transferrable.
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