Do not miss the temporary exhibitions, they are always a delight. To watch a movie at the IMAX is an excellent activity for a rainy day.

Wonderful museum in Victoria. We walked through the Natural History Gallery and loved it, but it was very distracting with tons of elementary school groups everywhere we turned. Admission is good for an entire day, so we took off for lunch and came back later. When we returned it was much more peaceful and we were able to take in... More

This is not a huge museum but it is very nice. The First Nations Exhibit upstairs was what we found most interesting. It is definately worth visiting. The museum store is also very nice with a lot of quality offerings.

Dont get me wrong, this is a Great local museum for the area, very informative on the cultures etc. of the region, and very well displayed and curated,(great exhibits on the indigenous tribes), but from the outside I was expecting more exhibits, the gift shop (very nice, but apparently with commissioned sales people) had more variety.

Great displays, very average coffee shops, acoustics very bad when surrounded by multiple groups of yelling, running school groups.

If you only have a day in Victoria, consider spending at least half of it in the Royal BC Museum -- the First Nations exhibit alone is worth every minute and every penny!

The BC Museum is a top notch museum. Some museums can contain important artifacts but are boring. This museum is anything but boring. I especially enjoy the old city. I also like the walk through time of BC from the mammoth stage, to Vancouver discovering Vancouver Island (a replica of his ship) to mining. You feel like you have stepped... More

The exhibits were top notch, but the museum was hosting tons of field trips for children running and screaming and teens being loud and rude. Very few adult interventions

This is basically a much scaled down version of a similar museum in Ottawa. The one in Ottawa is lightyears ahead of this one. If you come from a large city (5 million+ or so), you will find this museum to be tiny and uninteresting. My friend and I saw it was ranked as the most interesting thing to do... More