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The Canadian Museum of Nature (French: Musée canadien de la nature; CMN) is a national natural history museum based in Canada's National Capital Region.The museum's exhibitions and public programs are housed in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building, a 18,910-square-metre structure (203,500 sq ft) in Ottawa, Ontario.
The National Museums of Canada Corporation (NMC) (French: Société des musées nationaux du Canada) was created in 1967.It included the National Gallery of Canada Corporation, the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, the Canadian Museum of Nature Corporation, and the National Museum of Science and Technology Corporation (now the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation).
Museum Image Location Type Notes Ref Canada and the World Pavilion: Rockcliffe Park: Geography National Film Board of Canada's exhibition space [57] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography: ByWard Market: Art Closed in 2009 [58] Canadian Postal Museum: Centretown: Postal Dissolved in 2012 [59] Canadian Ski Museum: Centretown: Sport Moved to ...
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The Canadian Museum of History originates from the collecting efforts of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), an organization established in 1842 in Montreal. [2] In 1856 the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada passed an act that enabled the GSC to establish a museum to exhibit items found from its geological and archaeological field trips; with the museum initially established in ...
The organization reopened its hall of fame museum in Calgary in 2011. Canadian Air and Space Museum: Aviation: 1997 2011 Springwater, Ontario: The museum's collection put in storage in 2011, after the closure of its facility in Downsview Park. The museum's office is presently based in Mississauga-based offices of the Greater Toronto Airports ...
Longterm plans were to move it to a new permanent location, with spaces dedicated to the viewing of art. [11] Victoria Memorial Museum building in 1911. The National Gallery of Canada was situated in the building from 1911 to 1960. By the 1950s, the space in the Victoria Memorial Museum building had grown inadequate for the Gallery's collections.
The China-Canada Dinosaur Project (CCDP) was formally launched by the Ex Terra Foundation in 1985 to organize cooperative expeditions between the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, the IVPP in Beijing, and the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta with the support of the provincial government of Alberta, the federal government of Canada, the National Natural Science ...