Beacon Hill Park and Children's Farm

Beacon Hill Park
250- 381-2532
The city's showpiece garden dating from the 1890's features formal gardens and wildflower meadows, a bandshell, a wildfowl sanctuary, picnic tables, tennis courts, playgrounds, a 100-year-old cricket pitch, and a children's petting zoo.

British Columbia Forest Discovery Centre 

2892 Drinkwater Road

Duncan, BC

250-715-1113

Museum and interpretive center focus on the history and development of a positive relationship with the forest.   The BC Forest Discovery Centre offers interactive and educational activities for the whole family. Ride a 1920s steam train. Explore 100 acres of indoor and outdoor exhibits and walk the forest and nature trails. Spend a day of discovery.

Centre of the Universe         

5071 West Saanich Road

250-363-8262

The Centre of the Universe is the new interpretive centre at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory offering spectacular views of Victoria and the sky. It features interactive exhibits that contribute toward an understanding of the world of astronomy. The Centre of the Universe is part of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, the scientific institute within the National Research Council of Canada. Tour the  Plaskett Telescope. Travel the constellations in the Starlab Planetarium. Special theater presentation and multimedia shows.

Pacific Undersea Gardens          

250-382-5717

490 Belleville Street  Located in the Inner Harbor of Downtown Victoria)

The Pacific Undersea Gardens is an adventure for the whole family.

Reached by a gently sloping stairway that leads down to this unique marine observatory's glass-enclosed viewing area, visitors can observe the underwater world of the Pacific Northwest.  Some 5,000 creatures reside in these protected waters. Sharks, wolf eels, poisonous stonefish, sea anemones, starfish, sturgeon, and salmon are just a few of the organisms that make their homes here. Every hour there is an underwater show in which a diver-naturalist explains a variety of the undersea dwellers.  Injured seals and orphaned seal pups are cared for in holding pens alongside the observatory as part of a provincial marine-mammal rescue program.

Victoria Bug Zoo
631 Courtney Street
250-384-2847
The Victoria Bug Zoo is home to arachnids scorpions, tarantulas, mantids, centipedes, giant stick insects, beetles, and huge grasshoppers.