For more than 50 years, the Vancouver Maritime Museum has celebrated the profound importance of the ocean and the waterways of the Pacific and Arctic, and is located on the waterfront of the iconic Vanner Park. The museum houses extensive galleries of model ships, including a special delicate skeletal model of the French warship Wenger de Peuble. (Wenger du Beauville). It is a marine exploration center for children. It also includes a ship The RCMP was the first ship to circumnavigate North America and the only link between remote communities in the Canadian Arctic in the early twentieth century .