The Kamloops Museum and Archives occupies a handsome 1937 brick building on Seymour Street in the centre of downtown. The collection is broad and old-fashioned in the best sense: artefacts from the area's Secwépemc First Nations peoples, the fur trade era and the Hudson's Bay Company outpost, the gold-rush years, the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the early ranches, and the chinatown of late 19th-century Kamloops.
The exhibits are well-labelled and the museum is small enough to do thoroughly in an hour or two. Admission is by donation and the archives downstairs are open by appointment for researchers. A good wet-day stop and one of the better small-city museums in the British Columbia interior.