The Bug Lab Invertebrate Museum
28 Sixth Street, New Westminster, BC V3L 2Y8
Phone: 604-523-2847 Fax: 604-648-8333
Email: thebuglab@telus.net or thebuglady@telus.net 

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The Bug Lab

Invertebrate Museum

We have recently moved to #28 - 6th Street, New Westminster
directly behind Starbucks on the north side of Columbia Street 
(less than one block from our old location)

Visit us in our new location!

    The Bug Lab Invertebrate Museum is an educational facility for those who are interested in bugs.  When you visit The Bug Lab you become a Junior Entomologist, a scientist who studies insects.  Students and bug lovers (adults too) trade their coat for a lab jacket and a clipboard and study the bugs in the lab.  We have insects, scorpions, spiders, millipedes, centipedes and other bugs on display.  New bugs are on display all the time!  We also have preserved specimens and a great gift shop.

Friday afternoons we often have bug story time, join us for a story in the museum.

Click here for a printable coupon of $1 off your next admission to The Bug Lab!

The Bug Lab is independently owned and operated.

Website design and materials (c) The Bug Lab.
Directions  
From #1 Highway Take Brunette Avenue exit WEST (not towards Coquitlam, take the exit sign that states "New Westminster".
When you exit you are now on Brunette Avenue heading west, go through the lights at Braid and Brunette Avenue.
Brunette Avenue merges with Columbia Street at the next traffic light and the road naturally turns left (or west). Continue to follow this road, you are now on East Columbia Street heading west.
Follow this road for about 2.5km towards the Patullo Bridge, the road curves under the bridge and now you are on West Columbia Street
Turn right on Sixth Street, we are immediately behind the Starbucks that is on the corner of Sixth Street and Columbia Street.
From Alex Fraser Bridge and Richmond Go over the Queensborough Bridge, get into the right hand lane as you are on the bridge. This lane naturally exists right and when it exits, the road is no Stewardson Way.
Follow Stewardson Way (the Skytrain route is on your right hand side) for about 2.5km.
Stewardson Way becomes Columbia Street, get into the left hand land because the street splits and you want to take Columbia Street
Turn left at Eight Street, drive up the hill to "Carnarvon Street"
Turn right at Carnarvon Street
Turn right at Sixth Street, you are very close to the Bug Lab (the location is in the next block), so park along the street. You will see the sandwich boards on the sidewalk.
From Vancouver Area Marine Drive east - drive all the way to the Queensborough Bridge (don't go over the bridge). Get in the lane that states "Stewardson Way".
Follow Stewardson Way (the Skytrain route is on your right hand side) for about 2.5km.
Stewardson Way becomes Columbia Street, get into the left hand land because the street splits and you want to take Columbia Street
Turn left at Eight Street, drive up the hill to "Carnarvon Street"
Turn right at Carnarvon Street
Turn right at Sixth Street, you are very close to the Bug Lab (the location is in the next block), so park along the street. You will see the sandwich boards on the sidewalk
Parking A large parkade is situated parallel with Columbia Street. The cost is $1 for two hours. The machines take major credit cards.
Street parking is available. The cost is $2.50/hour and the  machine only takes coins.
Free parking is on the east side of Carnarvon Street (up the hill half a block, Carnarvon is perpendicular to Sixth Street). Free parking for two hours maximum, strictly enforced.
Eating at the Bug Lab We do not allow eating or drinking (other than water) at the Bug Lab.