About
About the museum
An independent digital museum about the Lions Gate Bridge. This page says how we work and who we are tied to.
Published Updated
What this is
Lions Gate Bridge Museum is a digital museum of Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge. It preserves the bridge’s history since 1938 and follows it with live traffic readings and forecasts. It began in 2026.
You can see the bridge now (Traffic and Cameras), read stories and browse the Gallery. Stories are short answers to questions about the bridge, each giving the answer first and a source for every fact. For example: When did the Lions Gate Bridge open?
The digital twin of the bridge is in the making: what is real in it, and what is not done yet.
Who is behind it
A project of the Lions Gate Bridge Heritage Society.
Editorial policy
- Facts, stories and interpretations are labelled apart.
- Every fact has a source. Where sources disagree, we give both.
- Corrections are public, at /corrections.
The Lions Gate Bridge stands on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
How we use AI
We use AI for:
- research help
- first drafts
- translation drafts
- concept images
- restoring old photographs (each is labelled “AI-assisted restoration”)
A person checks every public fact before it is published.
Pictures we make are artist’s impressions, not photographs. Archive photographs and DriveBC camera images are credited under each one. Pictures rendered from our model of the bridge and its shores are built on open data: see the credits on the Data page.
Money and relationships
The site is self-funded.
If we sign a sponsorship or brand agreement, we will say so on this page.
Not affiliated
This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with the BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit, the bridge operator or DriveBC.
Get in touch
Email [email protected] for questions, corrections and press.
Journalists: see the Press page.