Vancouver Maritime Museum, Maritime museum in Vanier Park, Vancouver, Canada

The Vancouver Maritime Museum occupies a building erected around the St. Roch, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner held permanently in a dry dock since 1958. Galleries hold ship models, maritime art, a library and archives, and a recreation of the forecastle of Vancouver's ship Discovery. Outside stand the research submersible Ben Franklin and the boiler of the Beaver, with a small heritage harbour beside them.

The museum opened in 1959 as a Vancouver centennial project. Its core is the St. Roch, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner that under Captain Henry Larsen completed the Northwest Passage west to east in 1940–42. The ship was declared a national historic site in 1962 and has rested in a dry dock since 1958, with the museum building erected around it.

The museum's cultural draw is the St. Roch, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner that in 1940–42, under Captain Henry Larsen, became the first ship to complete the Northwest Passage from west to east, Pacific to Atlantic. The Canadian government declared the voyage a national historic event on 20 May 1943, and the ship a national historic site on 15 May 1962. Visitors can step aboard the vessel in its dry dock.

The museum stands in Vanier Park beside the English Bay waterfront, next to the Museum of Vancouver and the H. R. MacMillan Space Centre. A small heritage harbour is part of the site. The St. Roch lies permanently in a dry dock with the museum building constructed around it, so visitors pass from indoor galleries to outdoor vessels.

The collection includes a bone model of the French warship Vengeur du Peuple created by prisoners of war around 1800. This intricately crafted artwork shows how captives used creativity during their confinement.