Museum of Vancouver, History museum in Vanier Park, Vancouver, Canada

The Museum of Vancouver is a history museum in Vanier Park housing permanent collections of artifacts, photographs, and documents that trace the development of the Pacific coast metropolis. The galleries show how the city emerged and evolved over time through these objects and records.

The museum was founded on 17 April 1894 by the Art, Historical, and Scientific Association of Vancouver, which opened a first temporary exhibition in rented rooms on the top floor of the Dunn Building on Granville Street. In 1903 the collection's title passed to the city council in exchange for premises, and the museum opened on the top floor of the new Carnegie Library on 19 April 1905. It moved to its current Vanier Park building in October 1968, was branded the Centennial Museum until 1981, and was rebranded the Museum of Vancouver in 2009.

The museum's name changed from the Vancouver Museum to the Museum of Vancouver in 2009, when CEO Nancy Noble and public-engagement lead Amanda Gibbs shifted its focus to the city itself. Its Indigenous work includes a 2006 repatriation policy, updated in 2020, and the 2025 exhibition The Work of Repair: Redress and Repatriation at the Museum of Vancouver.

The museum sits at the south end of Vanier Park at 1100 Chestnut Street, sharing an entrance and foyer with the H. R. MacMillan Space Centre. The park links it with the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Bard on the Beach, the Vancouver Archives and the Vancouver Academy of Music. About 90% of the roughly 80,000 objects are photographed and searchable in the museum's online database, useful for planning which collections to see.

The building's conical roof and curved reflecting pool earned it the nickname "Taj Mahal on the Creek." Architect Gerald Hamilton's design echoes Frank Lloyd Wright's 1961 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wisconsin. The planetarium wing was added after lumber magnate H.R. MacMillan funded it.