Britannia Mine Museum, Mining museum in Britannia Beach, Canada.

The Britannia Mine Museum is a mining museum in Britannia Beach that shows historical sites both underground and above ground. The place documents copper extraction through machinery, buildings, and exhibitions that explain how mining operated here.

The Britannia Beach Historical Society was founded in 1971 under British Columbia's centennial plans to preserve the province's mining history, and the museum opened in 1975 as the BC Museum of Mining. Mill No. 3, the 20-storey gravity-fed concentrator, was designated a National Historic Site in 1987, with a ceremony in 1988. A $5 million exterior rehabilitation followed between 2005 and 2007, and after a $14.7 million redevelopment the museum was renamed the Britannia Mine Museum in October 2010.

The museum displays personal items and photographs that show how miners and their families lived in this community. These objects tell the story of the hardships and everyday life of the people who worked here.

The museum sits on the Sea-to-Sky Highway on Howe Sound, 55 km north of Vancouver. A train ride carries visitors into a haulage tunnel driven in 1914 to move ore from the mills to the shore. The site covers 23 historic buildings, so allow time to walk between them.

Mill No. 3, the concentrator building on the site, stands 20 storeys tall and was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1987, with a ceremony held in 1988. The gravity-fed ore processing inside it was highly innovative, notably in its use of bulk froth flotation.