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Vancouver Centennial Museum
H. R. MacMillan Planetarium

Vancouver Maritime Museum
1100 Chestnut Street October 21, 1974

Vancouver, B.C., Canada .
V6J 3U9
Telephone 736-4431 local 247

IT'S ALL YOURS FOR FIFTY CENTS

What is? Well, let's start with the Centennial Museum. If you're
interested in finding out the fascinating history of this province,
from earliest times until now, you can pass a pleasant hour or two
exploring the galleries in the museum. The designers have aimed at

a "total experience" effect - you don't just look at objects in glass
cases here, you can (for example) walk through a Victorian kitchen.
In the same building as the Centennial Museum is the Planetarium,

with shows every night but Monday. From Vancouver's early beginnings
to the space age, you've bridged the gap when you sit under the
Planetarium dome with its man-made sky and super-stereophonic effects.

Across the lawns of Vanier Park you can now walk to the Maritime
Museum. (You'll be admitted for the same 50¢ ticket.) They've got

a marine radar unit, a periscOpe, mouel ships galore, many unusual and
fascinating relics of history like a piece of flotsam from the wrecked
"Lusitania" ... and of course the famous schooner "St. foch". This
gallant little ship was the first ever to sail through the Northwest
Passage from west to east and home again. She has been aeclarea a
National Historic Monument and is fully restored to her former glory.
You can explore the interior of the ship, look into cabins that are
complete to the last tiny detail - a book lying on an unmade bunk,
socks peggea on a line to dry, a radio playing the music of wartime
1944 when the ship made her epic voyage. If you believe in ghosts,
you'll love the“St. Roch"!

All yours for fifty cents? If you're a student with a card, yes, it

is. The Centennial and Maritime Museums anu Planetarium (plus gift shop,

bookshelves, cafeteria and restrooms) in beautiful Vanier Park right on

Kitsilano Beach, offers you an evening, a Saturuay or a Sunday, that's

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