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Free things to do in Vancouver

8 museums and landmarks in Vancouver are recorded as free entry by OpenStreetMap contributors, and 34 parks, viewpoints and beaches cost nothing by their nature. 14 of them give opening hours.

Contributors marked these as charging no admission. Museums and landmarks only: a zero here is a fact about the place, not an assumption about its kind.

Free by their nature rather than by a tag, so nobody checked these one by one — but a park being free needs no evidence.

Opening hours come from OpenStreetMap and can be out of date. A place is only marked open on Sunday when its record says so plainly.

Free museums — 8 places

  • H. R. MacMillan Space Centre
    Chestnut Street 1100
  • Ian Tan Gallery
    Granville Street 2655
    Tu-Sa 11:00-17:00; Su 12:00-17:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Or Gallery
    East Pender Street 236
    We-Sa 12:00-17:00
  • Engine 374 Pavilion
    Roundhouse Mews 181
    Mo-Su,PH 10:00-16:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Ukama Gallery
    Maritime Mews 1802
  • British Columbia Regimental Museum
  • Access Gallery
    East Georgia Street 222
  • Inuit Gallery Of Vancouver
    Carrie Cates Court 120

Parks and gardens — 20 places

  • Stanley Park
    Mo-Su 06:00-22:00
  • Doctor Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
    Carrall Street 578
    May 01-Jun 14 10:00-18:00; Jun 15-Aug 31 09:30-19:00; Sep 01-Sep 30 10:00-18:00; Oct 01-Apr 30 10:00-16:30; Nov-Apr: Mo off; Dec 25,Jan 01 off; Dec 24,Dec 31 10:00-14:00
  • Oppenheimer Park
    Powell Street 488
    06:00-22:00
  • Victory Square
    West Hastings Street 200
  • Robson Square
  • Hinge Park
    West 1st Avenue 215
  • Vanier Park
  • Thornton Park
    Main Street 1166
    06:00-22:00
  • Strathcona Linear Park
    Prior Street 787
    06:00-22:00
  • MacLean Park
    Keefer Street 710
    dawn-dusk
  • Delamont Park
    West 7th Avenue 2091
    Mo-Su 06:00-22:00
  • Trillium Park
    National Avenue 600
    06:00-22:00
  • Rainbow Park
    Richards Street 872
    Mo-Su 06:00-22:00
  • Strathcona Park
    Malkin Avenue 857
    06:00-22:00
  • China Creek Park North
  • Jericho Beach Park
  • Cathedral Square
    Richards Street 566
  • Art Phillips Park
  • Barclay Heritage Square
    Barclay Street 1433
  • Portal Park

Viewpoints — 6 places

  • Harbour Centre Lookout Tower
    West Hastings Street 555
    Oct-May 09:00-21:00; Jun-Sep 08:30-22:30
  • Lowden’s Lookout
  • Siwash Rock Viewpoint
  • Brockton Point
  • Ferguson Point
  • Viewpoint Vancouver

Beaches — 8 places

  • Kitsilano Beach
  • English Bay Beach
  • Jericho Beach
  • Second Beach
  • Third Beach
  • Sunset Beach
  • Hadden Beach
  • Secret Beach

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