Welcome to Anvil Centre
Where commerce, culture, and community meet

Anvil Centre is a modern and vibrant gathering place conveniently located in the historic cultural district of the City of New Westminster—and the geographical centre of Metro Vancouver.

If you’re looking for a boutique venue that ignites the imagination, inspires ideas, and stimulates the senses, Anvil Centre is the place where commerce, culture, and community meet.

Anvil Centre features 18,000 square feet of dedicated conference space, a 364-seat theatre, multipurpose studios, and smaller meeting rooms. With four floors of configurable, multifaceted spaces equipped with the latest in building amenities, Anvil Centre offers endless possibilities for conferences, meetings, events, and community programs.

Anvil Centre is also host to community-based arts, dance, and heritage programs, as well as public arts performances. The New Westminster New Media Gallery, New Westminster Museum and Archives, and Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame, which all call Anvil Centre home, invite visitors to connect, experience, explore, and discover.

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A modern, breathtaking venue

Dynamic, vibrant, modern, breathtaking: discover all that makes Anvil Centre unique.

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Plan

Exceptional meeting and conference services

Plan your next event at Anvil Centre’s leading-edge facilities.

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Discover

Arts, culture, and heritage

Discover New Westminster’s history and heritage, and a lively arts and culture scene.

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Engage

Programs and activities

Explore and register for programs in music, the arts, dance, and more.

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Anvil News

New West Museum Exhibit: Planning New Westminster

New Westminster, BC – Have you ever wondered when Sapperton, Queensborough and Connaught Heights became part of New Westminster?  Or what was on the Waterfront before Quay and the boardwalk?  Did you know that a 1960s plan would have turned Columbia Street into a tunnelled car-only thoroughfare?  A new exhibition at the New Westminster Museum looks at how the city formed, with stunning maps, beautiful archival photos and quirky artefacts.  The exhibition opens on Thursday June 1, with an opening reception from 6 pm – 8 pm, on the Anvil Centre third floor.

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