Nanaimo District Museum

Frommer's Review

Nanaimo's regional museum is a worthwhile introduction to the area's past, first as a home for the Snunéymuxw (the name from which Nanaimo derives) people and then as an industrial boomtown. An intriguing exhibit links painted dioramas of traditional Snunéymuxw life with a simulation of an archaeological dig near Discovery Bay in 1992. In drawers beneath the dioramas are the actual artifacts found at the site and pictured in the paintings. A gift shop sells wooden carvings from the local Snunéymuxw. The museum will relocate to the new and adjacent Nanaimo Convention Center in 2008.

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