Indoor & Rainy Day in the Okanagan
Museums, galleries, theatres, escape rooms, bowling, climbing gyms and more — the Okanagan’s best ideas for grey, wet or cold days.
Open Now is based on each place’s listed hours. Hours can change for holidays, seasons or special closures — check with the venue before you go.
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Armstrong Spallumcheen Museum & Art Gallery
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Armstrong Spallumcheen Museum & Art Gallery in downtown Armstrong shares local history through its museum and two galleries of rotating exhibitions by regional…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Peachland Museum
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Peachland Museum is a volunteer-run history museum in Peachland's distinctive 8-sided former Baptist church on the waterfront, built mainly by volunteers in 1910.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Lake View Great for Groups +2 more
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Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO)
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) is the National Research Council's radio telescope site in the White Lake valley, where free one-hour guided tours…
Open until Nov 1
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Summerland Museum & Archives
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Summerland Museum & Archives is a community museum on Wharton Street covering Syilx history, early orchard farming and the Kettle Valley Railway.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Canadian Wildlife Museum
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Canadian Wildlife Museum is a private natural-history museum north of Vernon with 350+ mounted specimens, from mice to bison, displayed in life-like dioramas over two…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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SS Sicamous Museum & Heritage Park
Closed · Opens 11 AM
SS Sicamous Museum & Heritage Park is a restored 1914 sternwheeler beached at the west end of Okanagan Beach, now a museum you can explore deck by deck.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
Closed · Opens 11 AM
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art has been showing contemporary work by emerging, established and experimental artists since 1989.
Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Museum & Archives of Vernon
Closed · Opens 11 AM
The Museum & Archives of Vernon is the North Okanagan's community history museum, with permanent and changing exhibits, streetscapes and dioramas in a recently renovated…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Okanagan Heritage Museum
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Okanagan Heritage Museum is a downtown museum covering the natural and human history of the Okanagan, from syilx culture to settler life, with exhibits such as…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Penticton Art Gallery
Closed · Opens 10:30 AM
Penticton Art Gallery is a public gallery on the Okanagan Lake waterfront by Okanagan Beach, with rotating exhibitions across several gallery rooms.
Kid-Friendly Lake View Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Kelowna Art Gallery
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Kelowna Art Gallery is the city's public art gallery in the downtown Cultural District, with rotating contemporary and historical exhibitions across several…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Sncewips Heritage Museum
Closed today · Opens Mon 10 AM
Sncewips Heritage Museum is Westbank First Nation's living museum, sharing syilx history, language, tools, dwellings and present-day cultural practice through…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Okanagan Wine & Orchard Museum (Laurel Packinghouse)
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Okanagan Wine & Orchard Museum tells the valley's fruit-growing and wine-making story from the historic 1918 Laurel Packinghouse in the Cultural District.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre
Closed · Opens 12 PM
The Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre is Vernon's main performing arts venue, hosting touring concerts, comedy, dance, theatre and family shows year-round in a…
Kid-Friendly Non-Alcoholic Options Live Music Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence is an aviation centre near Kelowna airport displaying nine vintage aircraft, including a DC-3, Mosquito and CF-104 Starfighter, in…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Lake Country Art Gallery
Closed · Opens 9 AM
Lake Country Art Gallery is a free public gallery showing rotating exhibitions of regional contemporary art, with a small gift shop and a coffee house sharing the space.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Vernon Public Art Gallery
Closed · Opens 11 AM
The Vernon Public Art Gallery is the largest public art gallery in the North Okanagan, presenting changing contemporary exhibitions through the year, with admission by…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse
Closed · Opens 11 AM
The Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse in Enderby is devoted to the immersive sound and installation art of internationally known artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures…
Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Westbank Museum
Closed today · Opens Mon 9 AM
Westbank Museum is a small community museum sharing the West Kelowna Visitor Centre building, with admission by donation.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Osoyoos & District Museum and Archives
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Downtown Osoyoos museum (in its new Main Street home since 2023) with a collection of 4,000+ artifacts and photo exhibits on the town's early days, ranching, orchards…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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The Art Gallery Osoyoos
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Art Gallery Osoyoos is the volunteer-run community gallery of the Osoyoos & District Arts Council, at Main Street and 89th Street just west of Town Hall.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Penticton Museum & Archives
Closed · Opens 10 AM
City-run museum beside the public library covering South Okanagan history from geology to the early town, plus a military gallery and rotating temporary exhibits.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Vernon Community Arts Centre
Closed · Opens 9 AM
A community arts hub in Polson Park with a members' gallery and art shop plus classes and drop-in studio time in pottery, painting and other crafts.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Oliver & District Museum
Closed today · Opens Tue 1 PM
Heritage museum in Oliver's 1924 provincial police building, with exhibits on mining, ranching, irrigation and orchards, natural history and the Syilx Okanagan people.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Lake Country Museum & Archives
Closed · Opens 1 PM
Lake Country Museum & Archives is a heritage museum in Okanagan Centre Park telling Lake Country's story, from the syilx people and early orchards to the Applebox Belles…
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Summerland Arts Council Gallery (George Ryga Arts & Culture Centre)
Closed · Opens 11 AM
Community art gallery and gift gallery run by the Summerland Community Arts Council in the George Ryga Arts & Culture Centre, next door to the museum.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Gallery 421
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Gallery 421 is a commercial fine-art gallery near Pandosy Village with more than 500 original works by over 30 professional artists from near and far.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Okanagan Military Museum
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Museum in the Kelowna Memorial Arena building telling the stories of Okanagan people in military service, with uniforms, artifacts and archives. Admission is by donation.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Peachland Art Gallery
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Community arts council gallery on the Peachland waterfront with rotating shows of Okanagan artists, workshops and events. Admission is by donation.
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Enderby & District Museum & Archives
Closed · Opens 10 AM
A small community museum in Enderby's City Hall complex with permanent and changing displays on the area's paddlewheelers, river drives and pioneer past.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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The Lloyd Gallery
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Long-running commercial gallery on downtown Front Street showing original work by around 40 Canadian artists in a salon-style space.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Headbones Gallery
Closed · Opens 12 PM
A contemporary gallery specializing in drawing, sculpture and works on paper, set on Old Kamloops Road outside Vernon.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Gallery Vertigo
Closed · Opens 10:30 AM
An artist-run gallery of the North Okanagan Artists Alternative, showing monthly exhibitions by regional artists across from the Towne Theatre.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Hambleton Galleries
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Established in 1963, the oldest commercial art gallery in BC's interior, now in the downtown Cultural District.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Courtyard Gallery
Closed · Opens 10 AM
A non-profit, artist-run co-op gallery in downtown Enderby showing and selling fine art and crafts by local artists. Exhibitions change regularly and browsing is free.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Lakeline Gallery
Lakeline Gallery is a two-floor downtown gallery on Martin Street, mixing street art and graffiti downstairs with a curated collector's gallery of original works…
Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens & Gallery
The Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens & Gallery is a private garden and gallery in Kelowna's north end holding hundreds of works by artist Geert Maas, including one of…
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Okanagan Art Gallery
Okanagan Art Gallery is an artist-run co-op on Main Street with a bright 2,100 sq ft space spread over six rooms.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Gallery Artiva
Gallery Artiva is a village gallery in the Lord Aberdeen Building at SilverStar, showing and selling fine art, crafts and gifts by Okanagan and Canadian artists, from…
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Gallery One Twenty-Seven
Gallery One Twenty-Seven is the Penticton gallery of painter Peggie Collins, showing her Okanagan-inspired originals alongside prints, posters, postcards and other small…
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Okanagan Falls Museum (Bassett House)
The Okanagan Falls Museum is run by the local heritage society around the Bassett House, a 1909 mail-order home shipped in pieces and hauled to the village by wagon.
Closed for the season.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Lumby & District Museum
Lumby & District Museum is a small volunteer-run museum on Glencaird Street telling the story of Lumby and the Monashee area's logging and pioneer history.
Closed for the season.
Arts & Culture
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- Airhouse Kelowna
- Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
- Another World VR Vernon
- Anytime Sim Golf
- Armstrong Spallumcheen Museum & Art Gallery
- Back Nine Indoor Golf
- BEEPS – Peachland Bat Colony & BatCam
- Bernie's Supper Club & Cinema
- Beyond Belief Escape Rooms
- Beyond the Crux Climbing Gym
- BNA Brewing
- BNA Brewing Kelowna
- BNA Brewing Vernon
- Caetani Cultural Centre
- Canadian Wildlife Museum
- Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse
- Cascades Casino Penticton
- Catelowna Cat Cafe
- Chances Casino Kelowna
- Cineplex Cinemas Orchard Plaza
- Cleland Community Theatre
- Cleopatra's Rituals Thermal Spa and Steam
- Courtyard Gallery
- Creekside Theatre
- Cue's Game Room
- Dante's Golf Lounge
- Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO)
- Donut House Studios
- Elodie's Playhouse Cafe
- Enderby & District Museum & Archives
- Enderby Arena
- Energyplex
- Ethos Parkour & Movement
- Exit Kelowna Escape Games
- FunSpace Kids
- Galaxy Cinemas Vernon
- Gallery 421
- Gallery Artiva
- Gallery One Twenty-Seven
- Gallery Vertigo
- Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens & Gallery
- Gneiss Climbing - Hill Security
- Gneiss Climbing - OG Banks
- Golf Evolution
- Golfbox
- H2O Adventure + Fitness Centre
- Hambleton Galleries
- Headbones Gallery
- Historic O'Keefe Ranch
- Johnson Bentley Memorial Aquatic Centre
- JSquared Golf
- Kelowna Actors Studio
- Kelowna Art Gallery
- Kelowna Comedy Club at Dakoda's Comedy Lounge
- Kelowna Community Theatre
- Kelowna Curling Club
- Kelowna Downtown YMCA
- Kelowna Escape Room by Omni
- Kelowna Family YMCA
- Kelowna Karting Entertainment Centre
- Kelowna Memorial Arena
- KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence
- Kobau Lanes
- Lake City Casino Vernon
- Lake Country Art Gallery
- Lake Country Museum & Archives
- Lakeline Gallery
- Landmark Cinemas 7 Penticton
- Landmark Cinemas 8 Xtreme West Kelowna
- Landmark Cinemas Grand 10 Kelowna
- Leir House Cultural Centre (Penticton & District Community Arts Council)
- Lincoln Lanes
- Löyly Floating Sauna
- Lumby & District Museum
- Mackie Lake House
- Many Hats Theatre Company (Cannery Stage)
- McCurdy Bowling Centre
- McLaren Park Arena
- Mount Boucherie Arenas – Jim Lind Arena & Royal LePage Place
- Museum & Archives of Vernon
- Nixdorf Classic Cars
- Nor-Val Sports Centre
- Okanagan Art Gallery
- Okanagan Bowling Club (OBC)
- Okanagan Falls Museum (Bassett House)
- Okanagan Folk School
- Okanagan Heritage Museum
- Okanagan Military Museum
- Okanagan Regional Library – Kelowna Downtown Branch
- Okanagan Science Centre
- Okanagan Virtual Golf
- Okanagan Wine & Orchard Museum (Laurel Packinghouse)
- Oliver & District Museum
- Oliver Curling Club (Eastlink Curling Centre)
- Oliver Theatre
- Osoyoos & District Museum and Archives
- Osoyoos Curling Club
- Parkinson Recreation Centre
- Pat Duke Memorial Arena
- Peachland Art Gallery
- Peachland Community Centre – Drop-in Pickleball
- Peachland Museum
- Pearl & Fern Pottery Studio
- Penticton Art Gallery
- Penticton Community Centre (Pool & Lazy River)
- Penticton Curling Club
- Penticton Museum & Archives
- Penticton Virtual Reality Studio
- Planet Bee Honey Farm & Honeymoon Meadery
- Planet Lazer Kelowna
- Play Area Kelowna
- Playtime Casino Kelowna
- Powerhouse Theatre
- Predator Ridge SIM Lounge
- Revelry Food + Music Hub
- Roll N Stones Fun Centre
- Rotary Centre for the Arts
- Rutland Arena
- Scandia Golf & Games
- Shelter Floating Sauna
- Simplex Sportszone
- Sncewips Heritage Museum
- Sonora Community Centre
- SOPA Fine Arts
- South Okanagan Events Centre (SOEC)
- Springers Gymnastics (Drop-in Gym)
- SS Sicamous Museum & Heritage Park
- Summerland Aquatic & Fitness Centre
- Summerland Arts Council Gallery (George Ryga Arts & Culture Centre)
- Summerland Museum & Archives
- Sun Bowl Arena
- Tality Wellness Kelowna
- Tempest Theatre & Film
- The Art Gallery Osoyoos
- The Boarding House Cafe
- The Dream
- The Fringe Indoor Golf
- The Kal
- The Lloyd Gallery
- The Rock Garden Climbing Centre
- Twice The Dice Board Game Cafe and bar
- Venables Theatre
- Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre
- Vernon Aquatic Centre
- Vernon Community Arts Centre
- Vernon Curling Club
- Vernon Jazz Club
- Vernon Public Art Gallery
- Vernon Recreation Complex – Priest Valley Arena & Centennial Outdoor Rink
- Vernon Towne Theatre
- Virtual Rcades
- Westbank Museum
- Whiski-Jacks Pins & Pints
- Wild Kidz Indoor Play & Party Centre
- Winfield Arena
- Work of Art Pottery Studio
- Xperience Games Kelowna
Open Now is based on each place’s listed hours. Hours can change for holidays, seasons or special closures — check with the venue before you go.