Victoria - Royal British Columbia Museum

British Columbia's provincial museum is situated in Heritage Court, midway between the Parliament Building and the empress Court Hotel. It is by far the best museum of natural and cultural history in Canada.

On the first floor a series of dioramas recreate the varies landscapes and wildlife of the province (including a life-size mammoth featured to particular effect). On the second floor visitors are taken on a journey through time; reconstructions of an old sawmill, a gold mine, a fish processing factory and a turn-of-the-century street bringing to life days long past. The museum's Indian History Gallery houses what is almost certainly the finest and most comprehensive exhibition of any on the history, culture and art of the