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Self-Guided Family Activities

ENGLISH: 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

FRENCH: 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Hands-On Fun: Theatre Masks Made Fun!

ENGLISH: 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

FRENCH: 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Great Bear Rainforest

ENGLISH: 1:30 P.M., 3:30 P.M.

FRENCH: 11:30 A.M.

The Seven Sacred Laws

ENGLISH: 12:30 P.M.

FRENCH: 1:00 P.M.

Dino Dana: The Movie

ENGLISH: 11:00 A.M., 3:00 P.M.

FRENCH: 2:30 P.M.

Teepee Time

ENGLISH: 10:00 A.M.

FRENCH: 10:30 A.M.

Picking-up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket

Sep 30, 2022

Join the Conversation on Truth and Reconciliation

Sep 27, 2022

The Museum’s Christmas Market

Nov 24, 2022

From Pepinot to PAW Patrol® – Television of Our Childhoods

Sep 2, 2022 – Sep 1, 2023

The Jim Neilson Collection

Jun 22, 2022 – Oct 2, 2022

Rekindled – Tradition, Modernity and Transformation in Indigenous Cultures

Sep 30, 2021 – Oct 2, 2022

The Canadian History Hall

The Canadian Stamp Collection

First Peoples Hall

Canadian Children’s Museum

Grand Hall

The W. J. Roué Collection – Bluenose and Beyond

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

Canadian Dress: The Confederation Era (1840-1890)

Canada at Play: An Online Exhibition of Toys and Games

Inuit Prints from Cape Dorset

Power and Elegance: Cantonese Opera

Virtual Museum of New France

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

Qajartalik 2022 – Collaborative Community-Based Archaeological Fieldwork in Nunavik

Sep 6, 2022

Celebrate 70 years of Canadian children’s television at the Museum of History

Sep 1, 2022

What DNA Analysis Can Tell us About Bytown Settlers

Aug 26, 2022

Archaeology Without Borders: Contact-Era Archaeology in Maine

Aug 3, 2022

Robert Demers: Legal Eagle in the 1970 October Crisis

Jul 28, 2022

A Peek into the History of Canada’s Ukrainian Community

Jul 11, 2022

In Conversation with Dr. Michael Petrou Historian, Veterans’ Experience, Canadian War Museum Author and Journalist

Jul 11, 2022

Canadian Museum of History welcomes a new member to its Board of Trustees

Jun 27, 2022

Your Museums have new opening hours for the summer months!

Jun 22, 2022

An Indigenous hockey star makes his debut at the Canadian Museum of History

Jun 21, 2022

Digital Museums Canada to invest in 25 new online projects

May 16, 2022

It’s finally time to play again!

May 11, 2022