The Peace River Museum is the compact local-history stop, with material on the fur trade, Indigenous history, river travel, and settlement in the Peace Country. It is more useful than its size suggests because the town's story is hard to read from the modern highway alone.
Look for the material connected with the steamer D.A. Thomas and the river era, when the Peace was a route rather than just scenery. Pair it with a lookout visit and the valley starts to feel like a lived-in corridor, not just a pretty bend in the road.