Monday, December 23, 2024

2024.12.23. Burnaby Village Museum

12/23, Monday. Not raining.
Went to Burnaby Village Museum today. Right now is so-called "Heritage Christmas". Not only many holiday lights, the homes are also decorated in the Christmas theme. Quite busy today, in fact, I wasn't able to park at the museum parking. Rather I parked across the street in the furthest parking lot of Hart House Restaurant (closed at the time).

A collection of homes from the early 1900s, where Burnaby was a logging town and a train station. A school, a few stores, bakery, a car mechanic shop, a Chinese herb shop, a bank, a press. A real cafe that sells food. A guy at the tooling barn is demonstrating making an iron spear. There's a nice train here, not running, but kept in pristine condition for visitors to go in. I was told that there's a sister train carriage in Langley, which runs.

It's a free museum, but not sure why that I never visited. It's small, but a nice stroll on a sunny day.