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Won't You Be My Neighbour?
Opened in May 2025
We are always changing our feature exhibits!
MAIN GALLERY
Summer: 10 am–4 pm Tuesday–Sunday
Fall/Winter/Spring: 12 pm–4 pm Friday and Saturday
A new exhibit, Won't You Be My Neighbour?, in the Museum’s main gallery, opened on May 22, 2025
Exploring the Heart of Cortes Island: Community and Resilience
This exhibition reveals Cortes Island's distinctive social landscape, showcasing how historical and contemporary neighbourhoods have shaped community identity and addressed local challenges. Through archival photographs, museum artifacts, evocative videos, personal stories, and an interactive community wall, visitors will discover the island's remarkable collaborative spirit and the innovative living strategies that have fostered connection and affordability.
WILD CORTES – MUSEUM'S NATURAL HISTORY CENTRE
Wild Cortes is located at Linnaea Farm Education Centre, 1255 Seaford Rd.
Fall/Winter/Spring hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 pm–4 pm
Summer hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 pm–4 pm
New exhibition Humback Comeback 2.0 opened on April 22, 2025
This exhibition highlights the importance of humpback whales to the environment and their recovery in British Columbia waters, as well as the current threats they face, including entanglement, vessel strikes, and the impact of climate change.
Wild Cortes' animal and bird exhibits are one of only two natural history exhibits in Vancouver Island and the surrounding islands. The other is in the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. Guests are “blown away” by our exhibits and find their time in the venue “a captivating experience.”
Researchers are welcome to work with the study skins created by Laurel Bohart, our curator/taxidermist.
Wild Cortes also features fascinating taxidermy exhibits, costumes and masks for dress-up, a puzzle of Cortes watersheds, and so much more!
Opened in May 2025
We are always changing our feature exhibits!
MAIN GALLERY
Summer: 10 am–4 pm Tuesday–Sunday
Fall/Winter/Spring: 12 pm–4 pm Friday and Saturday
A new exhibit, Won't You Be My Neighbour?, in the Museum’s main gallery, opened on May 22, 2025
Exploring the Heart of Cortes Island: Community and Resilience
This exhibition reveals Cortes Island's distinctive social landscape, showcasing how historical and contemporary neighbourhoods have shaped community identity and addressed local challenges. Through archival photographs, museum artifacts, evocative videos, personal stories, and an interactive community wall, visitors will discover the island's remarkable collaborative spirit and the innovative living strategies that have fostered connection and affordability.
WILD CORTES – MUSEUM'S NATURAL HISTORY CENTRE
Wild Cortes is located at Linnaea Farm Education Centre, 1255 Seaford Rd.
Fall/Winter/Spring hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 pm–4 pm
Summer hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 pm–4 pm
New exhibition Humback Comeback 2.0 opened on April 22, 2025
This exhibition highlights the importance of humpback whales to the environment and their recovery in British Columbia waters, as well as the current threats they face, including entanglement, vessel strikes, and the impact of climate change.
Wild Cortes' animal and bird exhibits are one of only two natural history exhibits in Vancouver Island and the surrounding islands. The other is in the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. Guests are “blown away” by our exhibits and find their time in the venue “a captivating experience.”
Researchers are welcome to work with the study skins created by Laurel Bohart, our curator/taxidermist.
Wild Cortes also features fascinating taxidermy exhibits, costumes and masks for dress-up, a puzzle of Cortes watersheds, and so much more!
From the Ground Up: Cortes Island dwellings and their histories – exhibition opening