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Featured Attraction of the Week: Royal BC Museum (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

by Inside Vancouver in Deals on November 5, 2012

Photo: Paul Nicklen (Canada) / Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012

Back by popular demand, Inside Vancouver has relaunched the “Featured Attraction of the Week” series. Each Monday we’ll be featuring a different Vancouver attraction and will be giving away free tickets to our readers. To be eligible, all you have to do is post a comment.

The featured attraction for this week is the Royal BC Museum, and its wildly popular Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 feature exhibition, on from November 30, 2012 to April 1, 2013.
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Featured Attraction of the Week: Royal BC Museum (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Featured Attraction of the Week: UBC Museum of Anthropology (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

by Inside Vancouver in Deals on October 29, 2012

Photo: Luminescence: The Silver of Peru

Back by popular demand, Inside Vancouver has relaunched the “Featured Attraction of the Week” series. Each Monday we’ll be featuring a different Vancouver attraction and will be giving away free tickets to our readers. To be eligible, all you have to do is post a comment.

The Museum of Anthropology, Canada’s contemporary museum of world arts and cultures, is a place of extraordinary architectural beauty, provocative programming, and exciting exhibitions. From towering totem poles in their spectacular Great Hall, to the iconic “The Raven and the First Men” sculpture in the Bill Reid Rotunda, to more than 10,000 objects from around the world housed in their new Multiversity Galleries, and cutting-edge temporary exhibitions on display in The Audain Gallery, MOA offers endless opportunities for visitors to discover and learn about their own and other cultures. They also offer an outdoor totem display, elegant Shop, Café MOA, free guided gallery walks, and customized tours by special arrangement. Wheelchair accessible.
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Featured Attraction of the Week: UBC Museum of Anthropology (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Featured Attraction of the Week: Fort Langley National Historic Site (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

by Inside Vancouver in Deals on October 22, 2012

photo: Fort Langley National Historic Site

Experience the excitement of the early West Coast fur trade at Fort Langley National Historic Site. Explore the wooden fort, first built by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1827, where traders once exchanged furs, salmon and cranberries with First Nations people.

Bring your visiting guests to stand in the spot where British Columbia was proclaimed a British colony in 1858. Fort Langley National Historic Site is packed with interactive displays and activities for the whole family. Watch blacksmithing, barrel-making or historic weapons demonstrations, pan for gold, and laugh along with an interpretive program.
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Featured Attraction of the Week: Fort Langley National Historic Site (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Featured Attraction of the Week: Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

by Inside Vancouver in Deals on October 15, 2012

photo: Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre

Back by popular demand, Inside Vancouver has relaunched the “Featured Attraction of the Week” series. Each Monday we’ll be featuring a different Vancouver attraction and will be giving away free tickets to our readers. To be eligible, all you have to do is post a comment.

They are the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre, a not-for-profit aquarium dedicated to the exploration of the spectacular Salish Sea.
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Featured Attraction of the Week: Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Featured Attraction of the Week: UBC Botanical Garden (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

by Inside Vancouver in Deals on October 8, 2012

Back by popular demand, Inside Vancouver has relaunched the “Featured Attraction of the Week” series. Each Monday we’ll be featuring a different Vancouver attraction and will be giving away free tickets to our readers. To be eligible, all you have to do is post a comment.

Explore Canada’s oldest continuously operating university botanical garden and immerse yourself in the world of wild-collected plants. UBC Botanical Garden stewards a living and growing repository of wild-collected germplasm representing the plant biodiversity of selected native and international biomes. The total collection of approximately 120,000 accessioned plants represents some 6,000 taxa and includes major international collections of Magnolia, Acer (maples), Sorbus (mountain ash), Styracaceae (storax family) and Rhododendron. Garden highlights include an Asian garden with over 400 kinds of rhododendrons, thousands of alpine and montane plants from around the world, a traditional physic garden full of herbs, and a demonstration food garden.

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Featured Attraction of the Week: UBC Botanical Garden (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Featured Attraction of the Week: Royal BC Museum (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Featured Attraction of the Week: UBC Museum of Anthropology (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Featured Attraction of the Week: Fort Langley National Historic Site (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Featured Attraction of the Week: Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Featured Attraction of the Week: UBC Botanical Garden (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

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