Rain, mountains and the Northwest Coast: Haida carving, Emily Carr's forests, and the photographers who made the city a school of its own.
In the old provincial courthouse, remodelled by Arthur Erickson, with the largest collection of Emily Carr and the photographers of the Vancouver School.
Arthur Erickson's concrete and glass museum (1976), with a Great Hall of Northwest Coast poles facing the sea.
A small gallery of the Haida artist Bill Reid and of contemporary Northwest Coast art.
Photography and media art in a building by Patkau Architects (2017) at the SeaBus terminal, with the city across the water.
Rooms, ruins and curiosities: the city's other museum.
Rodney Graham's giant crystal chandelier, hung under the bridge (2019), descends and spins for a few minutes a few times a day.
A Ming-style scholar's garden built in 1986 by craftsmen from Suzhou: rocks, pavilions, a jade-green pond.
Arthur Erickson's civic centre: a glass-roofed courthouse and terraced gardens with waterfalls, landscaped by Cornelia Oberlander.
British Columbia art, from Northwest Coast masks to Emily Carr, in Patkau Architects' building in the forest at Whistler, about two hours along the Sea-to-Sky Highway.
Vancouver Art Gallery at opening → the Bill Reid Gallery → Chinatown and the Sun Yat-Sen garden → the Museum of Anthropology → the SeaBus to the Polygon at sunset.