If you are into museums and wine or just museums or just wine this is the stop for you when you are…read morein Kelowna. It's more VQA Wine Shop then it is museum but it definitely has some interesting historical artifacts in the museum. For those that don't know VQA means BC Vintners Quality Alliance wines, which is a guarantee you're purchasing 100% BC wine. They have a delicious assortment of wines available in the store side, but do not sell at winery prices even though the website says they do. After visiting half a dozen wineries prior to our museum visit, buying wine at wineries and noticing prices (comparing the same vintage at both places)...we noticed a definite increase in prices ($2-3) at the VQA store. No bigs just truths. It's fun to wander through checking out wines and the history of wine. We visited on a day there was a wine tasting (Lost Inhibitions) and a food sampling. And if you have time the BC Orchard Industry Museum is right next door. Even though we've seen it, we would visit again.

Situated right next to the BC Wine Museum & VQA Wine Shop this is a must stop to take in some rich…read moreBC orchards history and breathe in the gorgeousness of the Laurel Packinghouse. While here you can view exhibitions featuring packing, processing, home preserving, picking, orchards and more. This museum tells the story of the Okanagan Valley's transformation from wide open cattle range to beautifully manicured, symmetrical orchards. Several bonuses in this museum like their live Bee hive with a tunnel for the bees to come & go. Fascinating to see the bees busy at work so close up. They have a gorgeous and very large space in the next room which is perfect for any kind of event. There are interactive stations for the kids which were entertaining and informative. We loved this museum and put it as a place to visit while in Kelowna.

Interesting if your brave and want to learn more about the military past. Layout was a little…read moreunfortunate as we jumped around time periods with no connection to any specific references. The vibe was threatening and cursed. The curtain in the video room was bulged out like it was hiding something, making us feel unsafe to watch the videos and take in the information they had to offer. The information around the measure was interesting but the haunting atmosphere made it challenging to want to spend extra time to reflect on the new information we had absorbed.

From the owner: Step inside this museum, and you will feel the passion of the volunteers who founded it. It is…read morepacked with uniforms, insignia, badges, and one of the best firearms collections in Canada. Investigate artefacts from the Boer War, World War I and World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, and contemporary military operations. The Okanagan Military Museum is devoted to the preservation and greater awareness of Okanagan military heritage, and reveals how locals contributed to events on the world stage.

There are a variety of buildings with various functions. A cool place to learn about the start of…read moreKelowna

What a hidden gem, although my understanding is that it's been there for 40 plus years. We had…read moreheard of the artist through friends who bought a piece from Geert Maas years ago that we were admiring at their home and decided to visit the sculpture gardens ourselves during our visit to Kelowna recently. And wow, what a great decision!! The artist himself and his wife are just lovely people. Very elderly. And so Geert is no longer producing new work, but what he does have in his gallery and in the gardens surrounding their house is magnificent and truly unique! We spent several hours walking through the gardens, gallery and speaking with the artist's lovely wife, who was so welcoming and so informative about everything to do with the process of creating his fabulous works. We purchased a small piece in bronze, which I will forever treasure. I highly recommend that anybody who has a true love of original Canadian art take a stop by these gorgeous gardens in the Kelowna Okanagan Valley. It should be a definite destination on your holiday.