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The city's flagship fine-art museum, the definitive spot for slow looking across major exhibitions.

World-renowned museum of Northwest Coast art and artifacts, built for contemplative, unhurried gallery visits.

Dedicated fine-art gallery of Northwest Coast Indigenous art, intimate and ideal for slow looking.

Public non-profit institution showing rotating contemporary fine art in a focused indoor setting.

University public art gallery presenting contemporary fine-art exhibitions for quiet, attentive viewing.

Indoor heritage museum with art and cultural exhibitions suited to a reflective, slow visit.

Vancouver's leading international contemporary gallery with museum-quality solo shows worth lingering over.

Established gallery known for large-scale shows of major Canadian and international fine artists.

Canada's premier fine-art auction gallery, showing important historical and Canadian fine art.

Long-running commercial fine-art gallery showcasing Canadian painting and sculpture for slow browsing.

Original Mural Festival neighbourhood where residential and warehouse walls are packed with outdoor painted art.

Trio of painted-wall murals depicting early Chinese-Canadian life, Chinatown's defining outdoor public artwork.

40-foot interactive eagle-wings mural by the Pells, the signature outdoor photo wall of West 4th.

Core Mural Festival loop with large-format painted walls along industrial side streets west of Main.

Large Lunar New Year street mural by Shuren Arthur Cheng on a prominent Keefer Street wall.

Historic 1938 single-screen cinema with cult and repertory programming, a true old-seats big-screen experience.

Restored 1935 single-screen Broadway rep house running classics and revivals, a textbook historic cinema.

Vintage 1941 neighborhood single-screen with big screen and old seats, classic-cinema charm intact.

Vancouver's flagship rep house: curated classic and art programming on the big screen, exactly this list's core.

Historic 1935 single-screen Dunbar cinema, an old neighborhood movie house with big-screen character.

Art-house multiplex screening indie and foreign film; cinema-focused but more first-run than rep or historic.