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Float Camp Seymour Inlet, ca. 1950, the Gilean Douglas Collection, Cortes Island Museum & Archives.
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, From the Ground Up: Cortes Island dwellings and their histories, in the Museum’s main gallery, opened on May 5, 2024
This exhibition looks back in time to celebrate the spirit of resourcefulness and creativity that has built not only homes on Cortes but communities as well. We invite you to explore fascinating photographs and artifacts from the museum’s collections, community stories and images, and the Cortez Lodge Coffee Shop, reimagined. With an additional display created by the Cortes Housing Society, this exhibition is a timely platform from which to examine current housing challenges and solutions.
And…you are invited to submit your photos to our ongoing community display called “Snapshots of Home.” If you have a photo of your innovative dwelling, a housing solution, or a home on the move, just send it to cimascortesmuseum.com, and we will include it in the exhibition.
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 Imagine... a forest in trust to the children! opened on April 22, 2024
This exhibition holds the promise of seeing us through the negotiations for the purchase of the Children’s Forest.
Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society invites everyone to hold this intention in their hearts & minds!
Cortes Wild! is also delighted to show off the new Marine Alphabet, created by the Primary Grade students at the Cortes Island School – A is for anemones sitting so still...
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!
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, From the Ground Up: Cortes Island dwellings and their histories, in the Museum’s main gallery, opened on May 5, 2024
This exhibition looks back in time to celebrate the spirit of resourcefulness and creativity that has built not only homes on Cortes but communities as well. We invite you to explore fascinating photographs and artifacts from the museum’s collections, community stories and images, and the Cortez Lodge Coffee Shop, reimagined. With an additional display created by the Cortes Housing Society, this exhibition is a timely platform from which to examine current housing challenges and solutions.
And…you are invited to submit your photos to our ongoing community display called “Snapshots of Home.” If you have a photo of your innovative dwelling, a housing solution, or a home on the move, just send it to cimascortesmuseum.com, and we will include it in the exhibition.
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 Imagine... a forest in trust to the children! opened on April 22, 2024
This exhibition holds the promise of seeing us through the negotiations for the purchase of the Children’s Forest.
Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society invites everyone to hold this intention in their hearts & minds!
Cortes Wild! is also delighted to show off the new Marine Alphabet, created by the Primary Grade students at the Cortes Island School – A is for anemones sitting so still...
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