This wild ride will take you behind the lines and through the history of Vancouver’s street safety, from carriages, cars and prohibition to motorcycles, riots and beyond!
Explore the history of guns and gun ownership, and learn how shifting cultural and political movements have affected society’s views on firearms and whether they should or should not be used.
How has morality been used to shape public opinion in Vancouver? We explore Vancouver’s crooked Police Chief Walter Mulligan in the 1950s and the Penthouse Nightclub investigation two decades later.
From 1932-1980 our main gallery space served as the City Coroner’s Courtroom, where inquests into deaths were held and new laws were recommended.
Morgue & Autopsy Suite
When it served as the morgue, over 20,000 bodies came through the doors of our building. See the recreated 1970s autopsy suite, where pathologists worked for decades to solve the mysterious deaths of the city.