Delta Museum and Archives, Delta

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The Delta Museum and Archives is located in a 1912 Tudor style heritage building in Ladner Village and has many exhibits.

The Delta Museum and Archives is located in an old 1912 Tudor style heritage building in the Village of Ladner in the corporation of Delta. This old building has been restored and provides a view into what the region was like during its early settlement with three floors filled with artifacts and exhibits including a mock village, a restored ground floor to view how the house looked a century ago, and upstairs exhibits honouring First Nations and the region's Chinese settlers as well as important industries such as agriculture and fishing.

Located in a 1912 Tudor style heritage building, the Delta Museum and Archives in historic Ladner Villager offers exhibits, activities and special programs focusing on this south-westerly region of British Columbia. The building was previously Delta's municipal hall and courthouse (its jail cell can still be seen in the basement) and was opened as a museum in 1969. Outside the museum visitors can see totem poles and one of the oldest town clocks in the Lower Mainland.

The Delta Museum and Archives is composed of three floors for visitors to explore with distinct themes:

• Basement: The basement has been converted into a mock village where visitors can explore what Delta (specifically the village of Ladner) once looked like with buildings such as a jail cell, a school house set up, pharmacist, doctor, dentist, bakery, general store, blacksmith, train station and a representation of Ladner's Landing which was an important ferry dock for new immigrants and supplies along the Fraser River.
• Ground Floor: The ground floor, where visitors enter the museum, has been transformed into a turn-of-the-century home with a formal parlor, bedrooms, a nursery, kitchen, study and scullery filled with authentic artifacts, photos and information about these rooms and their importance in everyday life as well as a temporary gallery.
• Second Floor (Attic): The second (top) floor is home to several exhibits honouring Native American groups which once lived in the area with displays of arrowheads, totem poles and woven baskets, a collection of Chinese artifacts from the region's first settlers from Asia as well as agricultural, fishing and hunting exhibits.

The Delta Museum and Archives provides an important location celebrating the history of the corporation of Delta. Along with the archives which are accessible at certain times to the public, the Museum provides well laid out exhibits using artifacts, photos and information to paint a picture of the region spanning the last century and beyond.