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Spring Break Family-Fun Activities at Britannia Mine Museum

“Live in the Lab: Mini Mud Monsters” and “What Happened to Mount Sheer” Special Programs 

March 15 – 30, 2025

Photo: Family gold panning at the Britannia Mine Museum.

Britannia Beach, B.C. (March 6, 2025) – This Spring Break, visitors can enjoy some fun, interactive, family-friendly special programs at the Britannia Mine Museum with their “Live in the Lab: Mini Mud Monsters”, and their “What Happened to Mount Sheer” educational sessions from Sunday, March 15 to March 30, 2025. 

This year, the Britannia Mine Museum is celebrating its 50th Anniversary since the museum was founded in 1975, marking five decades of preserving and sharing the rich history of Britannia’s mining past.  

The “Live in the Lab: Mini Mud Monsters” will run from Tuesdays to Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

They are interactive educational sessions where visitors can get their hands dirty and learn about the important environmental impact lessons of the Britannia Mine due to acid rock drainage, which occurs naturally when rainwater reacts with oxygen and exposed minerals. Participants will interact with live microorganisms from nearby Britannia Creek and learn how they help us understand the impacts of mining on local ecosystems.  “What Happened to Mount Sheer?” will run from Tuesdays to Thursday at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. inside the Britannia Story building.

Visitors can dive deeper into Britannia‘s fascinating past with this interpreter-led special program and explore the story of the once-thriving Mount Sheer mining community located high above the Britannia Mine. The mining town was home to the underground mine workers and their families and had everything, including a swimming pool, hospital, theatre, recreation centre and hotel. Perfect for history buffs and curious minds, visitors will discover the lives of the families who lived there, the challenges they faced, and why the town eventually disappeared.  

Located 45 minutes north of Vancouver on the picturesque Sea-to-Sky highway, the Britannia Mine Museum provides unique and memorable experiences that engage visitors of all ages. Visitors can enjoy fun exhibits and crowd favourites like the underground mine train, gold panning, the award-winning special effects BOOM! show inside the historic 20-storey concentrator Mill building, the minerals and gem gallery, the gift shop and the Beaty Lundin Visitor Centre.  

General admission tickets and annual memberships are available online at www.britanniaminemuseum.ca.  

About Britannia Mine Museum:  The Britannia Mine Museum is a mining legacy site and a vibrant, internationally recognized education and tourist destination located between Vancouver and Whistler on the Sea-to-Sky highway. It is a National Historic Site and a non-profit organization encouraging mining awareness through entertaining, experiential education programs and exhibits, important historic collection preservation and insightful public engagement that allows guests to leave with a better understanding of mining in BC; past, present and future.

www.britanniaminemuseum.ca 

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-30- Media contact: Yvonne Chiang, 604-880-5090, ychiang@bcmm.ca   

Photo #2: Houses at Britannia Mine’s Mount Sheer townsite circa 1939.