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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 museum first opened as the "Bytown Historical Museum" in 1917, in the former City Registry Office at 70 Nicholas Street, Ottawa. The Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa (WCHSO), a group of some 30 women whose objective it was to advance the study of Canadian history and literature, had amassed a collection of artifacts, and were ...
Canadian Museum of History: Gatineau, Quebec: 1968 [note 1] Canadian Museum of History corporation: Canadian War Museum: Ottawa, Ontario: 1942 Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Winnipeg, Manitoba: 2014 Independent Crown corporation: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21: Halifax, Nova Scotia: 2011 Canadian Museum of Nature: Ottawa, Ontario ...
Canada's national history museum, featuring a large collection, study, and preserve of materials that illuminate the human history of Canada [4] Canadian Museum of Nature: Centretown: 1968 Nature Canada's national natural history and natural sciences museum [5] Canadian War Museum: LeBreton Flats: 1942 Military Canada's national museum of ...
The National Gallery of Canada (French: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. [8] The museum's building takes up 46,621 square metres (501,820 sq ft), with 12,400 square metres (133,000 sq ft) of space used for exhibiting art.
Among the oldest government buildings in the capital, the building was the first Ottawa home of the Geological Survey of Canada; the building was also used to host the inaugural exhibit of the Canadian Academy of Arts in 1880 (the genesis of the collection of the National Gallery of Canada), and to display the Geological Survey's museum ...
The museum's collection contains a wide variety of civilian and military aircraft, representing the history of Canadian aviation from the pioneer era before the First World War up to the present day. Particularly noteworthy is the collection of vintage bushplanes from the 1920s to the 1940s.
The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum (French: Musée de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation du Canada) is a national agricultural museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.. Occupying several buildings within the Central Experimental Farm, the museum operates as a "working farm", and provides public programs and exhibitions on agriculture sciences, and on the history of agriculture