The VanDusen, PNE, community centres with art programs, heritage buildings — the city's capital investment in arts, culture, and heritage by year.
On track
Capital spending on arts, culture & heritage has gone up — $71M planned for 2025 versus $22M in 2023.
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What we're trackingAn ABC Majority will take steps to combat the loss of critical arts and culture production and performance spaces.— ABC Vancouver's 2022 campaign platform
In plain terms: This is the big-ticket capital spending: building or renovating museums, heritage sites, performance venues, and cultural facilities. It doesn't include grants to individual artists (those come from a separate operating budget).
We pulled every line item from the City of Vancouver's multi-year capital budget tagged 'Arts, culture & heritage' and summed the planned expenditures by budget year. This is the city's own forward-looking plan, not actual spend. The dataset covers 2023–2026; big projects land in single years, so the series is lumpy. Source: City of Vancouver open data.
City of Vancouver open data — Capital Budget (Arts, culture & heritage) · as of 2026-10-21 · Vancouver Promise Tracker — an independent look at whether local leaders deliver on their word.