School Programs

Vernon Museum’s Education Department offers elementary and high school students a series of classroom presentations, museum tours, and historic walks focusing specifically on the Early History of Our Area. These programs look at the “Lifestyle of the Interior Salish People”, the “History of the Fur Trade in British Columbia”, the “Early Settlement and Growth of Vernon & District”, the “First Post-Glacial Inhabitants of the Okanagan”, and “Present Day Natural History”.

Through the use of artifacts, photo images, and archival materials from the museum’s collection these presentations help to bring our unique local history to life, and add an extra dimension to any related units of study within the school curriculum.

Classroom Presentations

• Interior Salish Lifestyle/Technology
• The Fur Trade in New Caledonia (British Columbia)
• Beginnings – Early Vernon

Tours

• Interior Salish Tour
• Fur Trade Tour
• Local History Tour
• Barnard Avenue Historic Tour

More Museum Offerings

• Travelling Memory Trunk
• “Wayside Press” Print Shop Demos
• Natural History Discovery Tour
• Prehistoric Creatures From This Area
• Captain Shorts’ Steam Engine Demonstrations

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Unguided Museum Visits

Groups wishing to visit the museum without arranging a guided tour are also encouraged to phone ahead and book a time, in order to avoid a possible conflict with other groups. Discovery Tour sheets can be made available, on request, for unguided tour groups.

Bookings

Phone: 542–3142
Fax: 542-5358
Contact Person: Pat Simmons
Education / Interpretation Co-ordinator

Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday
Address: 3009 – 32nd Avenue, Vernon, B.C. V1T 2L8
(Please book at least two weeks in advance)

Fee

For classroom presentations: $50 (no GST)
( Payment by cheque, cash, Visa, Mastercard )

There is no charge for guided museum tours, or walking tours

Education programs at the Vernon Museum are supported by the British Columbia Arts Council