PoMo Museum, History and railway museum in Port Moody, Canada.
The PoMo Museum is a history and railway museum in Port Moody, housed in a former Canadian Pacific Railway station building. It displays railway artifacts, a 1921 sleeper car, and maintains a heritage garden with plants from around 1910-1912.
The museum was founded in 1969 by the Port Moody Historical Society and moved to the former railway station building in 1978. Relocating to this historic site made it a key place for preserving the region's railway history.
The museum preserves local residents' memories through recorded interviews, documenting their experiences and stories. This collection shows how people in the region lived and worked over time.
The station building and the Venosta sleeper car sit beside Rocky Point Park, so the outdoor displays can be seen while walking the park's paths. The postcard barrel stands in the former telegraph room; cards can be dropped off in person or mailed to the museum, where staff stamp them before placing them in the barrel.
The postcard barrel, set up in summer 2005 in the station's former telegraph room, is only the world's third, after barrels on Floreana Island in the Galápagos and on Crete. It is a dustbane barrel: visitors drop in unstamped postcards for others to hand-deliver, or mail them in to be stamped and deposited by staff.
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