Museums and history

Museum tour with scavenger hunt

Cowichan Valley Museum and Archives3 hr 14 min by bus · 46.3 km

✓ Fits your group

Museum display featuring a portrait, native masks, artifacts, and historical information.

Cost

$60 per class

$3.75 a child for 16

Ages & size

Grades K to 12

Capacity not published

Duration

1 hour

Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

Mon, Tue, Wed

Book by

Not published

Plan this trip

Fieldy handles all communication and booking for you.

What it actually looks like

Photos from Cowichan Valley Museum and Archives's website

Our note

The $60 is for the whole class, not for each child, which makes this one of the cheaper indoor outings in the valley. They will run it for any length you ask for, so say up front how long your group can hold attention rather than taking the 60 minutes as fixed.

What the children do

A visit to the museum for a class, either led by a guide or run by the teacher. Children work through a scavenger hunt to find artifacts, photographs and information in each gallery, and the museum provides the clipboards and the hunt sheets. The museum lists it for Kindergarten to Grade 12 at 60 minutes, or a length of your choosing, for $60 a class. It is available from 15 September to 15 December and 15 January to 15 June, Monday to Wednesday, morning or afternoon. You arrange it by email.

Walk the galleries with a clipboard, hunting for particular artifacts, photographs and pieces of information in each room, either following a guide or working through the hunt on their own.

Good to know

Food and drink are not allowed inside, and the museum sits in Charles Hoey V.C. Memorial Park, which is where a packed lunch would have to happen. There is a free three hour car park just north of the train station and two hour free street parking on Duncan Street behind the museum, but nothing about coach parking, toilets or step free access is published.

Sources disagree. Their own pages give two different postal codes for the same street address. One is V9L 3Y2, which is also the code on their post office box, and the other is V9L 1T4. We use the one from their contact page. If a delivery or a sat nav argues with you, that is why.

Sources disagree. Their home page and their contact page give different opening seasons. One switches to summer hours in May, the other says June. The days and times are the same on both. Worth checking which applies to the week you want.

Washrooms

Needs confirmation

Lunch space

For the preservation of our collections, we kindly ask that you please refrain from bringing food or drinks into the museum or archives.

Rain backup

Needs confirmation

Strollers

Needs confirmation

Wheelchair access

Needs confirmation

Bus parking

Needs confirmation

Nearby park

The station is situated in the picturesque Charles Hoey V.C. Memorial Park, surrounded by impressive totem poles and vibrant gardens.

Restrictions

Please refrain from bringing food or drinks into the museum or archives.

Getting there

130 Canada Avenue, Duncan, British Columbia V9L 1T4, Canada

On foot

10 hr 3 min

too far with this group

By bus

3 hr 14 min

includes a 9 min wait

Driving

1 hr 31 min

The dark pin is Victoria.

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Details checked on 2026-09-03 against the venue’s own pages. Something wrong? , it takes one tap. · Venue page · (250) 746-6612