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Exhibits

The White Rock Museum hosts several temporary exhibitions each year in our rotating gallery, which range from local art shows to original exhibitions that explore a chosen facet of White Rock’s varied heritage, history, and contemporary culture.

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current exhibitions

The Student Art Wall

June 14, 2022 - May 14, 2025

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White Rock Museum & Archives Building

Our Living Languages: First Peoples’ Voices in British Columbia

April 27, 2025 - August 4, 2025

Our Living Languages: First Peoples’ Voices in British Columbia invites viewers to learn more about Indigenous languages in BC through this award-winning, interactive exhibition. In honour of the United Nations International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032), Our Living Languages provides visitors with the opportunity to learn more about the history of disrupted languages in BC, […]

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Our Latest Antiquities

upcoming exhibitions

White Rock Museum. archival image Archives Pier

Community Curators: Selections from the WRMA Collections

August 15, 2025 - October 19, 2025

Who gets to decide what goes on display in the museum? Explore selections from the WRMA Permanent Collection through the eyes of community members. This exhibition highlights favourites and hidden treasures from the collection, selected by community curators to share their knowledge and tell personal stories of White Rock history, everyday life, and treasured moments.

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Lest We Forget: White Rock During the War Years

October 31, 2025 - November 11, 2025

The war years of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 influenced the lives of all Canadians. The White Rock Museum & Archives annual exhibit – Lest We Forget: White Rock During the War Years remembers the people who participated in the war efforts both overseas and at home and looks at how the wars impacted all aspects of […]

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A Great History

past exhibitions

Hope Meets Action: Echoes Through the Black Continuum

March 27, 2025 - April 25, 2025

The BC Black History Awareness Society in partnership with the Royal BC Museum presents Hope Meets Action: Echoes Through the Black Continuum, the story of Afro-diasporic “British Columbia” history, past, present and future. Black “British Columbian” history has long been whitewashed in the annals of colonial history. Against the backdrop of white-centring walls, this exhibit daylights […]

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Upstream/Downriver: Walking the stɑl̓əw̓ Watershed

February 17, 2022 - May 24, 2022

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