’s Sector

Quick facts  The BC Museums Association has over 400 members located in regions across B.C.  Total revenues for B.C.’s museums sector are estimated at over $213 million annually.  An estimated 4,000 people are employed by B.C.’s museums sector.  Over 21,000 volunteers provide over 1 million hours of volunteer work each year.  B.C. museums attracted over 8.6 million visitors in 2013, with an additional 21 million online visits to museums’ digital collections and programming.  20,348 school groups visited B.C. museums in 2013.  The collections of B.C. museums include over 4 million artifacts and objects, 663,896 linear meters of textual records, close to 12 million graphic materials, over 53,000 natural history/scientific specimens, 36,307 hours of film, video and sound recordings and 2,093 permanent exhibitions. Source: Government of Survey of Heritage Institutions: 2015

The benefit of museums in B.C.  Museums and related institutions are vital to B.C.’s creative economy, contributing to jobs, tourism and economic activity in urban and rural communities across the province.  Museums, art galleries, historic sites, cultural centres and other memory institutions are keepers of legacy, places of learning, and drivers for the economic and social well-being of our communities. They connect people to collections, to information, to ideas and to each other.  B.C. museums are contributing to repatriation and reconciliation by working with Aboriginal communities to recognize the unique histories and experiences of Indigenous peoples and by participating in the respectful return of ancestral remains and cultural belongings.

What is a ? The BC Museums Association defines museums and related institutions in British Columbia to include art galleries; natural, archeological and ethnographic monuments and sites and historical monuments and sites of a museum nature that acquire, conserve and communicate material evidence of people and their environment; institutions holding collections of and displaying live specimens of plants and animals, such as botanical and zoological gardens, aquaria and vivaria; science centres and planetaria; conservation institutes and exhibition galleries permanently maintained by libraries and archive centres; nature reserves; and such other institutions as the BC Museums Association Council considers as having some or all of the characteristics of a museum or as supporting museums and professional museum workers through museological research, education or training, such as heritage organizations.

BC Museums Association Members The BC Museums Association represents over 400 members located in communities across British Columbia, including the institutions and organizations listed below.

100 Mile House & District Historical Society Historical Society & Museum 15th Field Artillery Regiment Museum and Archives Burnaby Art Gallery 3DS / Three Dimensional Services Burnaby Village Museum Agassiz-Harrison Historical Society Burns Lake Native Development Corporation Museum Caetani Cultural Centre Museums Association Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame Alder Grove Heritage Society Canadian Heritage Information Network AldrichPears Associates Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame André & Associates Interpretation & Design Ltd. Canadian Museum of Flight Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior Canadian Museum of History Armstrong Spallumcheen Museum & Arts Society Carr McLean Arrow Lakes Historical Society Archives Central BC Railway & Forest Ind. Museum Society Art Gallery of CFB Historical Society Ashcroft Museum CFB Naval and Military Museum Association Heritage Chase & District Museum & Archives Society Association of Museums Chemainus Valley Museum Atchelitz Threshermen's Association Cherryville & Area Historical Society Balfour & District Business & Historic Association Chilliwack Museum & Archives Bank of Canada Museum City of Delta Barkerville Historic Town and Park City of Maple Ridge BC Farm Museum Clinton Museum BC Hydro Visitor Centres Commonwealth Association of Museum BC Regiment (DCO) Museum Comox Air Force Museum BC Society for the Museum of Original Costume Comox Archives & Museum Society BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum Art Gallery Beaty Biodiversity Museum Coquitlam Heritage Bella Coola Valley Museum Society Cornerstone Planning Group Bill Godden Finger Labyrinth Museum Corporation of the Village of McBride Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society Boundary Museum & Interpretive Centre Costume Museum at Government House Bowen Heritage Museum Bowen Island Museum & Archives Craigdarroch Castle Bralorne Pioneer Museum Society Cranbrook History Centre Britannia Mine Museum Creston & District Museum and Archives British Columbia Aviation Museum Cumberland Museum and Archives

Dawson Creek Art Gallery (South Peace Art Society) Hope Visitor Centre and Museum Complex Denman Seniors & Museum Society Hornby Island Natural History Centre Dickens British Museum Huble Homestead/Giscome Portage Heritage Society District of Sechelt Ilo-Ilo Theatre Society Donald Luxton & Associates Inc. Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation Doukhobor Discovery Centre Italian Cultural Centre Museum - Il Museo Egmont Heritage Centre (Skookumchuk Heritage Society)Jewish Museum and Archives of BC Enderby & District Museum Society Kaatza Historical Society Esquimalt Municipal Archives Kamloops Art Gallery Fernie & District Historical Society (Fernie Museum) Kamloops Chinese Cultural Association Fort Langley National Historic Site of Canada Kamloops Museum & Archives Fort Nelson Historical Society Museums Society Fort St. John - North Peace Museum Kilby Historic Site Fraser River Discovery Centre Kimberley District Heritage Society Heritage Railway Society Kitimat Museum & Archives Friends of Fintry Provincial Park Society Klahoose First Nation Friends of Walhachin Society Know History Inc. Friesens Corporation Lac la Hache Historical Society Gabriola Historical & Museum Society Ladysmith & District Historical Society Galiano Museum Society Lake Country Museum and Archives Gallery 2 - Grand Forks Art Gallery Lakes District Museum Society Golden & District Historical Society Langham Cultural Society Granisle Info Centre & Museum Langley Centennial Museum Granite Creek Preservation Society Lardeau Valley Museum Greater Japanese Canadian Citizens' AssociationLucidea Greater Vernon Museum & Archives Lytton Museum and Archives Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame Macdonald & Lawrence Timber Framing Ltd. Greenwood Heritage Society Mackenzie and District Museum Society Grunt Gallery Mackie Lake House Foundation National Historic Site Maple Ridge Historical Society Museum Maritime Heritage Gallery and Discovery Centre Hedley Museum Marshall College (BCMA Test Account) Heritage Abbotsford Society Mayne Island Agricultural Society Heritage BC Mennonite Heritage Museum Heritage Branch Metzger Collection Heritage Park Museum Michel-Natal-Sparwood Heritage Society Hi-Cube Storage Products Mission District Historical Society Highlands Community Museum Miyazaki House Hli Goolth Wilp-Adokshl Nisga'a - Nisga'a Museum Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Hope & District Arts Council Moyie Community Association

Museum at Campbell River Penticton Museum & Archives Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at SFU Pitt Meadows Heritage & Museum Society Museum of Surrey Point Ellice House Museum of the Chilcotin Port Clements Historical Society Museum of Vancouver Heritage & Cultural Society Museums Association of Port Hardy Museum and Archives Nakusp & District Museum Society Port Moody Station Museum Nakusp Rail Society Pouce Coupe Museum and Historical Society Art Gallery Powell River Historical Museum & Archives Nanaimo Museum Princeton & District Museum & Archives Naramata Heritage Museum Society Protection Island Cultural Historical Society Netgenetix.com Media Inc. (NGX Interactive) Qualicum Beach Museum New Westminster Museum and Archives Quesnel & District Heritage Association Nicola Valley Heritage Society Quesnel & District Museum and Archives Nicola Valley Museum Archives Association Regional District of Mount Waddington Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre Revelstoke Museum & Archives Nikkei National Museum Revelstoke Railway Museum Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre Richmond Museum & Heritage Services North Pacific Cannery National Historic Site Richmond Olympic Experience North Thompson Museum Roedde House Preservation Society North Vancouver Museum and Archives Ross Bay Villa Historic House Museum Northeast Aboriginal Business Centre Rossland Historical Museum & Archives Association Northern Secwepemc Cultural Centre Royal BC Museum Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre Royal Roads University Archives Oak Bay Archives Royal Roads University- School of Tourism Ocean Wise Conservation Association Rungh Cultural Society Military Museum Society Saanich Archives O'Keefe Ranch & Interior Heritage Society Saanich Pioneer Society Old Hastings Mill Store Museum Salmon Arm Museum and Heritage Association Oliver and District Heritage Society Salt Spring Farmers Heritage Foundation Museums Association Sam Waller Museum Organization of Military Museums of Canada Satellite Video Exchange Society (VIVO Media Arts Centre) Osoyoos Museum Society Science World PACART (Pacific Art Services Ltd.) Sea to Sky Forestry Centre Society Pacific North West Heritage Homes Foundation Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum and Archives Parksville & District Historical Society Shawnigan Lake Museum Pemberton & District Museum & Archives Society Sidney Museum and Archives Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society Sikh Heritage Museum Pender Islands Museum Society Simcpw First Nation Penticton Art Gallery Art Galleries

Sncewips Heritage Museum Tumbler Ridge Museum Foundation Region Museum Two Rivers Gallery South Cariboo Historical Museum Society UBC Museum of Anthropology South Peace Historical Society U'mista Cultural Centre South Similkameen Museum Society Legacy Art Galleries SPARC Vintage Radio Museum Valemount Museum & Archives SS Sicamous Marine Heritage Society Valley Museum & Archives Society Sto:lo Research and Resource Centre Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre Summerland Museum & Archives Society Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration Sunshine Coast Museum & Archives Society Military Museum Society Surrey Art Gallery Vancouver Island University - Museum of Natural History Surrey Heritage Society dba BC Vintage Truck Museum Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall Texada Island Heritage Society Vancouver Lipont Art Centre The Alberni Project - HMCS Alberni Museum and MemorialVancouver Maritime Museum Society The Exploration Place Museum + Science Centre Vancouver Naval Museum & Heritage Society The Galiano Club Vancouver Police Museum The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford Vanderhoof Community Museum The Robert Bateman Centre Vernon Cadet Museum The Royal Westminster Regiment Historical Society MuseumVernon Public Art Gallery The Whale Interpretive Centre Wells Historical Society Tofino Clayoquot Heritage Museum Westbank Museum and Arts & Crafts Society Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia Trail Museum & Archives Yukon Historical and Museums Association