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School group guided tour

Sointula Museum24 hr 8 min by bus · 359.7 km
✓ Fits your group
The ferry dock at Sointula on Malcolm Island.
Cost
$5 a child
$80 for 16 children
Two accompanying adults come free. Their tours page prices each additional adult at $8.00.
Ages & size
Ages not published
Capacity not published
Duration
1 hour
Year round
Days not published
Book by
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What it actually looks like

Photos from Sointula Museum's website
Our note
The whole visit is indoors and the museum suggests about an hour, so it suits a class that can look and listen rather than run. The foghorn sits in the Rust Room on the lower level, which is opened by staff through a separate downstairs door, so ask for it to be open before you arrive. Getting there means a ferry to Malcolm Island and then a 350 metre walk left from the dock, so build the crossing into your day.

What the children do

A guided tour of the exhibitions for a class, led by the museum's volunteers. The exhibitions can cover technology, early Finnish settler history, fishing, the development of a small community and more, and the museum will shape the tour around what the class needs. Tour length varies and the museum recommends about an hour. Tours run year round and all of them must be pre-booked. The price is $5.00 per child with two accompanying adults free.

Walk three exhibition rooms with a guide, looking at Finnish settlers' belongings, the Co-op store counters, photo albums and the fishing, logging and farming gear in the Rust Room. They can try the real 1905 foghorn from Pulteney Point Lighthouse, use the first bilingual switchboard in British Columbia, and sit in the media centre to watch short videos about island life.

Good to know

Washrooms are on site, the main floor is step free by a ramp, and strollers are allowed although some aisles are narrow. No food or drink is allowed inside, so lunch has to happen somewhere else, and nothing is published about parking a bus or about how many children can come at once.

Sources disagree. Two of their pages give different school group prices, $5.00 a child on one and $6.00 a youth on the other. Both agree that two adults come free. We show the lower one, so ask which is current when you book.
Sources disagree. For a general group tour one page says $6.00 a person for everyone and another says $6.00 for young people and $8.00 for adults. Check which one applies to your adults when you book, so the total is not a surprise.
Sources disagree. Their visit page and the panel at the bottom of every page give different opening seasons. One says daily from mid May to the end of September and by appointment the rest of the year, the other says daily from June 1 to September 15 and then three afternoons a week. Call or text before you set a date.
Washrooms
The washroom and galleries on the main floor are accessible.
Lunch space
There is no food or drink allowed in the museum.
Rain backup
Needs confirmation
Strollers
Strollers are permitted in the museum, but please note that some aisles are narrow. We will be happy to store your stroller during your visit. Please let the Visitor Services staff member know that you would like to park a stroller.
Wheelchair access
The museum is wheelchair and walker accessible using a ramp leading into the building. The washroom and galleries on the main floor are accessible. The 'Rust Room' on the lower level of the museum can be reached through a downstairs door. Please make arrangements with visitor services to open the downstairs door.
Bus parking
Parking is free in both the parking lots in front of and behind the museum.
Nearby park
Needs confirmation
Restrictions
There is no food or drink allowed in the museum.. Still photography is permitted for private, non-commercial use only. Photographs cannot be published, sold, reproduced, transferred, distributed or otherwise commercially exploited in any manner.. Wheelchairs are permitted in the museum. We do not have a wheelchair on site to lend visitors.. All tours must be pre-booked in advance.. Sointula is on Malcolm Island and is reached by boat. To reach the museum, either on foot or by car, turn left off the ferry and proceed three blocks (350 meters) to a bend in the road. The Superior School is located on the left (waterside).

Getting there

280 1st Street, Sointula BC V0N 3E0

On foot
78 hr 12 min
too far with this group
By bus
24 hr 8 min
includes a 9 min wait
Driving
11 hr 18 min

The dark pin is Victoria.

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Details checked on 2026-09-20 against the venue’s own pages. Something wrong? , it takes one tap. · Venue page · 250-230-9650