The Vancouver Maritime Museum continues to present our very special Hidden Treasures Tours. We don't take you under the sea exactly, but we do take you to sea level for a close encounter with our maritime research library and a behind the scenes look at the Museum's vast collection where you will see some of the 95 percent of the Museum's artifacts that we are not able to display.

Many aspects of the maritime experience and our heritage go untold because the Museum does not have the space to display its $12 million collection of artifacts. These very special tours are an opportunity to see just a small portion of the collection that remains hidden. Many of the artifacts in the Museum's collection are national treasures, and some rare objects are internationally significant, like the hand-drawn charts kept by Captain James Cook on his third and final voyage of exploration which includes the last chart the famous navigator was working on when he was killed in Hawaii in 1778.