Nanaimo District Museum

100 Museum Way

About

Nanaimo's regional museum is a worthwhile introduction to the area's past, first as a home for the Snunéymuxw (the name from which Nanaimo derives) people and then as a coal mining boomtown. The museum relocates to the new and adjacent Vancouver Island Conference Center in 2008. The expanded exhibit gallery will portray the unique aspects of Nanaimo's location, character, and natural history, featuring the Snunéymuxw First Nation, "colorful" citizens, and the coal mining, industrial, and social development of the community. Be sure to visit the Bastion, the last free-standing, original wooden HBC bastion in North America.