 The museum was founded in 1894 and went through a number of iterations before being rebranded as the Museum of Vancouver in 2009.It creates Vancouver-focused exhibitions and programs that encourage conversations about what was, is, and can be Vancouver.It shares an entrance and foyer with the H. R. MacMillan Space Centre but the MOV is much larger and occupies the vast majority of the space in the building complex where both organisations sit as well as separate collections storage facilities in another building.