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Celebrate your event in the most unique rental venue in the North. 

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Make your event one of a kind

Customize your own event in the midst of Northern BC’s largest museum and only science centre.

From business meetings to receptions and parties, The Exploration Place is a spectacular venue for your event. Surrounded by our region’s history, dinosaurs, and thousands of plants, including our massive living wall, you won’t find anywhere else that makes an impression quite like we do.

Our own Origins Kitchen will provide you with delicious, locally-sourced catering. We are also a licensed facility and are happy to provide liquor service for your event.

Our team will devote themselves to making sure you and your guests have an experience to remember. Your rental makes a difference – by renting our facility, you are supporting a Northern BC non-profit organization and registered Canadian charity.

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Packages

Please note that rental pricing DOES NOT include catering or liquor service.

Facility Rentals

Gaia Gallery – Daytime

(2 hours minimum)

Location: Gaia Gallery 
Rental Hours: Between 9am-5pm, 9am-8pm on Thursdays

Gaia Gallery – Evening

(3 hours minimum)

Location: Gaia Gallery
Rental Hours: Between 6pm-12am, 8pm-12am on Thursdays

Full Facility Rental – Daytime

(2 hours minimum)

Location: Gaia Gallery with full museum access

Rental Hours: Between 9am-5pm, 9am-8pm on Thursdays

Full Facility Rental – Evening

(3 hours minimum)

Location: Gaia Gallery with full museum access

Rental Hours: Between 6pm-12am, 8pm-12am on Thursdays

Rental rates and capacity

Holiday Parties

Available for bookings November – December, 2024

Magpie

$195

1-40 attendees

Location: Gaia Gallery. Full museum access – $50
Rental Hours: Saturday or Sunday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Mammoth

$275 (Mon-Tue) $325 (Fri-Sat)

41-74 attendees

Location: Gaia Gallery. Full museum access – $120
Rental Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Albertosaurus

$550 (Mon-Tue) $650 (Fri-Sat)

75+ attendees

Location: Gaia Gallery with full museum access

Rental Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Add an Activity

$2.50/person

  • Cookie decorating
  • Ornament making

Catering and liquor service available

Weddings & Receptions

We are happy to create a custom plan for your special day.  Please contact us to discuss options.

Wedding packages must be booked at least 6 months in advance.

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Unique
Spaces

Our museum galleries provide a perfect backdrop and engaging experience for you and your guests.

Gaia Gallery

Surround your guests with dinosaurs, fossils, and thousands of coastal and tropical plants

Gaia Gallery

Surround your guests with dinosaurs, fossils, and thousands of coastal and tropical plants

Gaia Gallery

Surround your guests with dinosaurs, fossils, and thousands of coastal and tropical plants

Gaia Gallery

Surround your guests with dinosaurs, fossils, and thousands of coastal and tropical plants

Gaia Gallery

This gallery has built-in wheelchair-accessible seating pods, each with its own mesmerizing sand table 

Link Gallery

This gallery connects the paleo world with our current Biome by introducing visitors to Ice Age megafauna and living fossils—the Nechako White Sturgeon—that have survived from the time of the dinosaurs to the present. It also features a one-storey slide (fun for kids and adults, too!)

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George Phillips Exhibit Gallery

This gallery houses a new travelling or in-house exhibit every three months

Hoduleh'a: A Place of Learning

A permanent gallery developed together with our partners, the Lheidli T’enneh.

The city of Prince George is situated on the unceded ancestral territory of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation. The word Lheidli means “where the two rivers flow together” and T’enneh means “the People”

Mosaic Gallery

The Mosaic Gallery showcases neighbouring First Nations and highlights repatriation work being done in partnership with many Indigenous communities in BC’s central interior.

Ted Williams History Centre

The Ted Williams History Centre contains permanent exhibits on the post-contact settlement history of the region, highlighting the many diverse groups that contributed to what we now know as Prince George. Play billiards on a table that came to Prince George by sternwheeler!

Biome

The Biome is home to over 20 Animal Ambassadors (and counting!) Our Animal Ambassadors are the most unusual (and most popular) members of our team—those who sport exoskeletons and those who eat mice! They play a crucial role in connecting people of all ages with nature, environmental conservation, and the issues influencing each species and their native habitats. Each animal helps us spark a life-long interest in learning.

Origins Kitchen

From appetizers and finger food to full-course meals, Origins Kitchen will work with you to create a custom menu that will meet your needs.

Origins Kitchen

From appetizers and finger food to full-course meals, Origins Kitchen will work with you to create a custom menu that will meet your needs.

See all we have to offer

Download our Facility Rental brochure to see all rental options, extras, capacity, rates, and more.

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