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Live Interpretation: Worth Its Weight in Gold

ENGLISH: 10:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.

FRENCH: 10:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.

Family Guide : Napoleon and Paris

ENGLISH: 9:30 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

FRENCH: 9:30 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Brilliant Button Art

ENGLISH: 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.

FRENCH: 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.

The Bat Hunt

ENGLISH: 9:30 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

FRENCH: 9:30 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Wild Africa 3D, 4K

ENGLISH: 12:00 P.M.

FRENCH: 1:00 P.M.

Great White Shark 3D, 4K

ENGLISH: 11:00 A.M., 2:00 P.M.

Hockey in Canada – More Than Just a Game

Mar 10, 2017

Finding Dory 3D

Nov 5, 2016

Karim Ouellet | Trente

Dec 10, 2016

Tour of the exhibition – The Empire’s New Clothes

Nov 3, 2016

Fashion Revisionism: Napoleon, Dress and Deportment 1795–1814

Nov 3, 2016

The Life and Legacy of Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Nov 17, 2016

Awesome Mail

Nov 20, 2016

The Pass System | Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion

Nov 22, 2016

The Museum’s Christmas Market

Dec 1, 2016

An Evening of Christmas Music

Dec 8, 2016

A Victorian Christmas

Dec 10, 2016

Create Your Own Christmas Centrepiece

Dec 15, 2016

Awesome Christmas Tree

Dec 18, 2016

Christmas Movie Miracle at the Museum

Dec 22, 2016

Wish Upon a New Year’s Star

Dec 26, 2016

Ring in 2017 at the Canadian Museum of History!

Dec 31, 2016

Star Light, Star Bright

Nov 1, 2016

Blue Build-a-Thon

Nov 26, 2016

Kids in the Kitchen - Holiday Sweet Treats Workshop

Dec 3, 2016

Keepsake Christmas Ornaments

Dec 5, 2016

Handmade Fun: Everlasting Snowmen!

Dec 26, 2016

Rock Your Resolutions

Dec 27, 2016

The Canadian History Hall

Jul 1, 2017

“Nice Women Don’t Want the Vote”

Oct 5, 2016 – Mar 12, 2017

Mining the Miners - Klondike gold: it wasn’t all mined with picks and shovels.

Jun 28, 2016 – Dec 31, 2017

Napoleon and Paris

Jun 16, 2016 – Jan 8, 2017

Gold Rush! – El Dorado in British Columbia

Apr 8, 2016 – Jan 15, 2017

Horse Power – The Paul Bienvenu Carriage Collection

Mar 24, 2016 – Apr 17, 2017

The Canadian Stamp Collection

First Peoples Hall

From Time Immemorial - Tsimshian Prehistory

Grand Hall

Canadian Children’s Museum

The Harbinson Collection – A Passion for Canadian Furniture and Decorative Arts

'namaxsala (To Travel in a Boat Together)

Morning Star – Gambeh Then’

Gwadàl’ Zheii: Belongings from the Land

Inuit Prints from Cape Dorset

Canadian Dress: The Confederation Era (1840-1890)

Canada at Play: An Online Exhibition of Toys and Games

Power and Elegance: Cantonese Opera

Heart and Soul - Quebec Folk Art

Making Medicare: The History of Health Care in Canada, 1914-2007

Christian Bennedsen - Scrapbook of a Life in Letters

Her Majesty's Stamps

From Blacksmiths to Blackboards

The Art of Puppetry

Selling Smoke: How Canadian Cigar Boxes Pitched Their Wares 1883-1935

Face to Face: The Canadian Personalities Hall

Canada in a Box, Cigar Containers that Store Our Past 1883-1935

Archaeological Mysteries in the Ottawa Area: Edward Van Cortlandt's Ossuary

Citizens - Portraits of Canadian Women of African Descent

Greece: Secrets of the Past

Remember When...? My encounter with the architecture of old Hull

First Peoples of Canada

Playthings and Curios: Historic Inuit Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Crossroads of Culture: Exploring 200 Years of Canadian Immigration, 1800-2000

Marius Barbeau: A Glimpse of Canadian Culture, 1883-1969

Gateway to Aboriginal Heritage, Native Material Culture in Canada

Ancient Treasures and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Written in the Stone: Architectural Tour of the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Passions and Pastimes: Thomas Walter Edwin Sowter, The Ottawa Valley's First Archaeologist

Before E-commerce : A History of Canadian Mail-order Catalogues

Presenza: A New Look at Italian-Canadian Heritage

Souvenirs of Canada

Canadian Nursing History Collection Online

Rocket Richard: The legend - the Legacy

Nettie Covey Sharpe House

Northern People, Northern Knowledge: The Story of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918

Opus: The making of musical instruments in Canada

The Origins of Dogsled Mail in the Yukon in the 1890s

Strangers, Partners, Neighbours? The Helluland Archaeology Project

The History of Canada's Public Pensions

Plaza Exhibitions

Playing Through: Golf, the Canadian Story

Kichi Sibi: Tracing Our Region's Ancient History

The Lands within Me: Expressions by Canadian Artists of Arab Origin

Symbol of a Profession: One Hundred Years of Nurses' Caps

A History of the Native People of Canada

Retracing An Archaeological Expedition to Canada's Northwest Territories

A Chronology of Canadian Postal History

Lifelines: Canada's East Coast Fisheries

Resonance: Musical Heritage of La Francophonie

Winged Messenger (2nd edition)

The Bronfman Collection Virtual Gallery

India, The Living Arts

Timeless Treasures: The Story of Dolls in Canada

Moccasins

Emergence from the Shadow: First Peoples' Photographic Perspectives

The Last Best West: Advertising for Immigrants to Western Canada, 1870-1930

Inuit and Englishmen: The Nunavut Voyages of Martin Frobisher

Canadian Labour History, 1850-1999

A History of the Vote in Canada

Social Progress Gallery

The Labour Stamp: The Image of the Worker on Canadian Postage Stamps

Dressing Up Canada - Late Victorian Fancy Dress Balls

Iqqaipaa: Celebrating Inuit Art 1948-1970

This Other Eden: Canadian Folk Art Outdoors

The Canoe: Portraits of the Great Fur Trade Canoes

This Splendid Gift: The 1897 Canadian Historical Dinner Service

Nineteenth-Century Pottery and Porcelain in Canada

Nadlok and the Origin of the Copper Inuit

Legends of Our Times: Native Ranching and Rodeo Life on the Plains and Plateau

Glass Works: The Story of Glass and Glass-making in Canada

The Haida: Children of Eagle and Raven

Boat People No Longer: Vietnamese Canadians

From Time Immemorial - Tsimshian Prehistory

Hooked on Rugs

Gather Around this Pot

Where Sea and Land Meet: Historical Northwest Coast Native settings in the art of Gordon Miller and Bill Holm

In Memoriam: Bill Reid (1920-1998)

Mysteries of Egypt

Masterpieces of 20th-Century Chinese Painting

Storytelling: The Art of Knowledge

Winged Messenger: Airmail in the Heroic Era (1918-1939)

Ritual Messengers: African Treasures from the Tervuren Museum

The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic: From Ancient Times to 1902

Hold onto Your Hats! History and Meaning of Hats and Other Headwear in Canada

Lost Visions, Forgotten Dreams: Life and Art of an Ancient Arctic People

The Doukhobors:

Wave Eaters: Native Watercraft in Canada

Treasures Gallery

Places of Power, Objects of Veneration in the Canadian Arctic

Old Nova Scotian Quilts

Mystery of the Maya

Homage to Nature: Landscape Kimonos of Itchiku Kubota

Mothers of Time: Seven Palaeolithic Figurines

Grand Hall - Pacific Coast Aboriginal Culture

Canada Hall

Fall Harvest

Oct 30, 2016

Jacques Plante’s goalie mask

Oct 30, 2016

Canadian Museum of History acquires William James Roué Collection

Oct 27, 2016

Giant Image of Canada Installed

Oct 27, 2016

Mont-Albert, Gaspé Peninsula

Oct 23, 2016

Horse-drawn hearse

Oct 23, 2016

Objectives of the New Severn Post Archaeological Project

Oct 19, 2016

Your History. Your Museum. Your Online Collection.

Oct 19, 2016

The Greeks exhibition draws half-a-million visitors on North American tour

Oct 13, 2016

Free dive with great white sharks at the Museum of History’s CINÉ+

Oct 7, 2016

The Canadian Museum of History celebrates the 100th anniversary of Manitoba women winning the right to vote

Oct 5, 2016

Canadian Museum of History saddened by the death of the “grandmother” of Canadian Indigenous art

Oct 3, 2016