The Royal BC Museum is located between Government and Douglas streets, on Belleville. If you are coming from the BC Ferries terminal at Swartz Bay or the Victoria Airport, take Highway 17 South and follow it to Belleville Street. Turn Right.
Parking Lots Near the Museum
The Royal BC Museum does not own or operate a parking lot, but there are several privately run lots nearby as well as parking on the surrounding streets. You'll pay $2.00 per hour to park close to the museum. Most parking lots allow you to stay as many hours as you are prepared to pay for, while most on-street meters and parking zones limit your stay to two hours or less.
You will probably want two to four hours to enjoy the exhibitions in the Royal BC Museum. Allow extra time for browsing our shops, eating lunch at the Museum Café, exploring the current special exhibition or seeing a film at the National Geographic IMAX Theatre.
There is a short-term parking drop-off zone for people with disabilities on Belleville Street in front of the museum's main entrance. Longer term parking for people with disabilities is available at the rear of the museum off Superior Street in a Robbins pay-parking lot. Please display your disability decal in both cases. Ramps provide wheelchair access to both the museum and theatre.
The main parking operators in our area are listed below.
City of Victoria Parking Parking information online
Tel: 250-361-0260 for street parking information
Tel: 250-361-0331 for parkade information
The city offers on-street metered and unmetered parking, parkades and parking lots. Parkades cannot handle over-height vehicles, such as camper vans, RVs or large vehicles with roof-top luggage carriers.
City of Victoria parkades are free on Sundays and public holidays; meters are free every day after 6:00 pm and all day on Sundays. This policy may change, so please read signs and meters carefully.
Please visit for more informationMetered on-street parking is limited to two hours or less (the limit is stated on the meter); most meters accept Visa, Mastercard, $2, $1 and 25-cent coins in Canadian currency. Most unmetered parking is in the semi-residential area to the south and west of the museum and is time-limited.
Robbins Parking
http://www.robbinsparking.com/
Tel: 250-382-4411
Parking Lots Near the Museum
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Lot#
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Address
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No. of Stalls
|
Lot Type
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Dist. From Museum
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RV Parking
|
Available
|
|
27
|
606 Douglas
|
54
|
Surface
|
Behind Museum
|
No
|
24/7
|
|
61
|
203 Quebec
|
150
|
Surface
|
10 Minute Walk
|
Yes
|
24/7
|
|
62
|
345 Quebec
|
44
|
Parkade
|
10 Minute Walk
|
No
|
24/7
|
|
84
|
744 Burdett
|
32
|
Surface
|
5 Minute Walk
|
No
|
24/7
|
|
112
|
720 Douglas
|
300
|
Parkade
|
2 Minute Walk
|
No
|
6:00 am - Midnight
|
|
117
|
509 Superior
|
33
|
Surface
|
5 Minute Walk
|
No
|
24/7
|
|
133
|
814 Wharf
|
39
|
Surface
|
5 Minute Walk
|
No
|
24/7
|
|
139
|
548 Michigan
|
112
|
Surface
|
5 Minute Walk
|
Yes
|
Evenings after 5:00 pm + weekends
|
|
140
|
512 Michigan
|
144
|
Surface
|
5 Minute Walk
|
Yes
|
Evenings after 5:00 pm + weekends
|
|
142
|
635 Broughton
|
366
|
Parkade
|
10 Minute Walk
|
No
|
6:00 am - 11:00 pm
|
|
143
|
910 Government
|
202
|
Parkade
|
10 Minute Walk
|
No
|
6:00 am - 11:00 pm
|
|
160
|
835 Humboldt
|
38
|
Surface
|
2 Minute Walk
|
No
|
24/7
|
|
165
|
648 Michigan
|
135
|
Surface
|
5 Minute Walk
|
Yes
|
24/7
|
|
174
|
481 Kingston
|
599
|
Surface
|
2 Minute Walk
|
Yes
|
Evenings after 5:00 pm + weekends
|
|
203
|
655 Douglas
|
71
|
Surface
|
Across the Street
|
No
|
24/7
|
|
632
|
701 Belleville
|
55
|
Surface
|
2 Minute Walk
|
No
|
24/7
|
Note: On the lots where RV parking is available, please pay for each stall used - length-wise and width-wise - that your RV is fully or partially occupying. If you have not done so, you may receive a Robbins Parking violation ticket.
Robbins Parking lots generally dispense a pre-paid ticket from an on-site machine. These machines accept payment by coins ($2, $1, 25-cent coins in Canadian currency); most also accept credit cards.
If you pay, but the machine does not produce a ticket, do not leave a note on your vehicle as lot patrollers will ignore it. Instead, call Robbins immediately at 250-382-4411 and leave a message with the following information: license number, parking location, method of payment, how much you paid, date and time of payment, your name and home phone number. If lot patrollers have issued you a ticket for failure to display a receipt, this will allow Robbins to confirm that the correct procedure was followed and to check that the machine was out of order at the time of purchase.
(Tip: If you pay by credit card you will have a record of the transaction via your credit statement, just in case the ticket dispenser is not working properly.)