Yukon Transportation Museum

Yukon Transportation Museum Sharing stories of ingenuity, adventure, devastation and joy through the lens of Yukon transportation We offer rental space, tours, giftshop and outreach.

Transportation shows us how and why people move themselves, their possessions and their ideas over the landscape, and we explore these stories and how it has shaped the Yukon as we know it today. At the Yukon Transportation Museum you will see, read, and hear about the rich history of Yukon transportation through lively stories and the interesting, detailed and surprising size of displays.

As we roll into September, it's almost time for us to dry-dock the proverbial YTM sternwheeler...This Sunday is the fina...
09/03/2026

As we roll into September, it's almost time for us to dry-dock the proverbial YTM sternwheeler...

This Sunday is the final day of our 2026 summer hours. We'll be closed all of next week (including Labor Day) before reopening on Saturday, September 12th for the offseason. Thanks for a wonderful summer season!

If you visited the museum this summer, you probably noticed our interpreter Claire's beautiful drawings on the door th...
08/24/2026

If you visited the museum this summer, you probably noticed our interpreter Claire's beautiful drawings on the door that leads from the gift shop to the exhibit yard. This canoe fisherman was one of our favorites 🎣

Sadly, Claire is taking her artistic eye back to Calgary later this week for her last year of school -- thanks to Young Canada Works for its support of her position and Canadian heritage organizations.

Yukon summer is slipping through our fingers once again... have you visited YTM yet?Only four more weekends for our summ...
08/14/2026

Yukon summer is slipping through our fingers once again... have you visited YTM yet?

Only four more weekends for our summer hours! Open 10 to 6, Wednesday to Sunday until Labor Day.

📸 Sternwheeler Graveyard in West Dawson

Thanks to the team at Parks Canada (especially Kyle, Oliver and Braeden) for hosting the YTM crew for a fascinating tour...
08/04/2026

Thanks to the team at Parks Canada (especially Kyle, Oliver and Braeden) for hosting the YTM crew for a fascinating tour of the S.S. Klondike worksite this morning. The scope of this restoration project is incredible! We learned a ton about boatbuilding, ship saws, boosting boilers and complex problem solving.

Come see one of the Klondike's lifeboats on display in our main exhibit hall -- we're open Wednesday to Sunday, 10 to 6, through the end of August.

Step 1: Buy one of our limited edition 'Retro YTM' T-shirtsStep 2: Be a cool cat like Claire and NicoleStep 3: ProfitOpe...
07/31/2026

Step 1: Buy one of our limited edition 'Retro YTM' T-shirts
Step 2: Be a cool cat like Claire and Nicole
Step 3: Profit

Open 10-6 today, Saturday and Sunday 🛶🚂👣

How's your summer going? Ours has been fantastic & FULL -- we've mounted cameras, moved (model) hangars, hosted packed-h...
07/22/2026

How's your summer going? Ours has been fantastic & FULL -- we've mounted cameras, moved (model) hangars, hosted packed-house events, learned from our colleagues, refurbished exhibits, added exciting new objects to our collection and welcomed thousands of visitors.

Drop by and check out the fruits of our labor -- we're open 10 to 6, Wednesday to Sunday, through the end of August 😎

07/17/2026

When's the last time you saw a DC-3 dancing to a pipe band? Anything can happen at YTM!

Thanks to the Cochrane Pipe Band from Cochrane, AB, for the tunes, and special thanks to Ray Marnoch for the wonderful video.

It's a big weekend here at YTM, with National Indigenous Peoples' Day, Summer Solstice and Father's Day wrapped up into ...
06/19/2026

It's a big weekend here at YTM, with National Indigenous Peoples' Day, Summer Solstice and Father's Day wrapped up into one fabulous day. Come take a museum tour with our interpretive team on Saturday, and enjoy the Klondike Cruisers Show & Shine event in our parking lot on Sunday. Open 10 to 6 all weekend!

It's finally sunny here, and changes are afoot at YTM! Come for a visit and check out our lovely garden boxes, planted b...
06/12/2026

It's finally sunny here, and changes are afoot at YTM! Come for a visit and check out our lovely garden boxes, planted by our Collections Manager Nicole (and cared for by our interpretive team). Or if you're more of an indoor cat, come play with the 3D artifact scans in our Discovery Library.

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10 to 6 😎

How about another Before and After? 📸This time, we’re heading back to 1990 again, when gang of YTM founders re-posed the...
06/01/2026

How about another Before and After? 📸

This time, we’re heading back to 1990 again, when gang of YTM founders re-posed the historic 1927 shot of Clyde Wann and co. taken during the delivery of the Queen of the Yukon at the San Diego factory.

Despite the unfortunate fate of both original aircraft in the late 1920s, the story of the Queen of the Yukon lives on today through a life-sized replica — originally displayed at Expo '86 in Vancouver — that now soars above our Main Exhibit Hall.

1927 photo — left to right:
J.E. Smith (Ryan Aircraft mechanic)
Bill Monday (Ryan Aircraft test/demo pilot)
Andy Cruickshank (Yukon Airways pilot)
Clyde Wann (Yukon Airways owner)

And in the “new” 1990 photo:
Bob Cameron, Richard Roberts, Carl Maguire, and Ted Turner. Ted was the main builder of the beautiful replica itself!

Address

30 Electra Crescent
Whitehorse, YT
Y1A0M7

Opening Hours

Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 6pm

Telephone

+18676684792

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