Hard to believe it’s only a few days until the 2010 Olympic Winter Games descend on Vancouver; more than 350,000 visitors are expected to visit Vancouver and Whistler over the two-and-a-half weeks of the games. You can’t imagine how much we want to see some of those folks come through our doors…
The only problem? We’re [...]
The “Big House” Welcomes the World
February 8th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Current Events · Marketing · Olympics · Sins of the City · Special Events
“Police (Museum) Raid Penthouse!”
January 15th, 2010 1 Comment
By Kristin & Joanna
Milling about outside the Penthouse Nightclub before our (a group of us staff from the Police Museum) Heritage Vancouver-arranged tour, it was interesting to note how many different kinds of people had gathered for a peek inside one of Vancouver’s most notorious hot spots. The crowd was definitely what you’d call ‘multi-generational’ [...]
Tags: Errol Flynn · history · Sins of the City · Special Events · The Penthouse
VPM at Science World
November 27th, 2009 No Comments
The sun is shining today, but the weather forecast says it won’t last for long. Luckily for us, we will be hosting an event at Science World which will keep us busy and dry. This weekend (Saturday November 28th and Sunday November 29th) from 11:00am to 3:00pm we will be hosting a drop-in forensic science-themed investigation. [...]
Tags: Forensics · Outreach · Programs · Science World · Special Events
Thrilled About our Newest Exhibit!
August 13th, 2009 2 Comments
Our whole crew has been working hard the last few months to get this together and it’s finally time to make an announcement:
Come join us as we celebrate the opening of our newest exhibit at the Vancouver Police Museum. This major exhibit explores the history of sport and athleticism in the Vancouver Police Department through [...]
Tags: athletics · Exhibit · hockey · Olympics · soccer · Special Events · World Police and Fire Games
A Most Unusual Event
March 11th, 2009 14 Comments
As you’ve read previously on this page, we’ve hosted lots of different events in our space: film shoots, photo shoots, birthday parties, conference receptions, meetings, adventure races, lectures and even plays. The most unusual, though, would probably be the baby shower we hosted here last weekend.
Christina, one of our employees, approached us a month ago [...]
Tags: baby shower · filming · rentals · Special Events
