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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

Virtual Tree-Lighting Ceremony at the Canadian Museum of History

Nov 30, 2020

October 1970: Multiple Perspectives on a Drama

Oct 15, 2020

Commemorating the End of the Second World War

Oct 14, 2020

The Contributors’ Circle: Making a Difference, Together

Oct 14, 2020

In Conversation with Jeff Noakes

Oct 14, 2020

The Partners' Circle

Oct 14, 2020

Supply Line Marches On

Oct 14, 2020

Temporary closure of the Canadian Museum of History

Oct 11, 2020

Virtual Museum of Canada announces new online projects

Sep 9, 2020

This fall, enjoy memorable experiences at the reopened Canadian Museum of History and Canadian War Museum

Aug 27, 2020

Enjoy Free Summer Fun at the Canadian Museum of History and Canadian War Museum

Jul 20, 2020

The Queens of Egypt will hold court at the Canadian Museum of History this summer

Feb 25, 2020