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A Knight’s Life

ENGLISH: 10:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.

FRENCH: 10:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.

Finding Franklin: A Family Artifact Hunt

ENGLISH: 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

FRENCH: 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Handmade Fun: The Art of Calligraphy

ENGLISH: 9:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.

FRENCH: 9:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.

Medieval Imagination

ENGLISH: 9:00 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.

FRENCH: 9:00 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.

Wonders of the Arctic

ENGLISH: 9:30 A.M., 10:30 A.M., 11:30 A.M., 12:30 P.M., 1:30 P.M., 2:30 P.M., 3:30 P.M., 4:30 P.M.

FRENCH: 10:00 A.M., 11:00 A.M., 12:00 P.M., 1:00 P.M., 2:00 P.M., 3:00 P.M., 4:00 P.M.

Canada C3 – Coast to Coast to Coast

Jul 1, 2018

Canada Day at the Museum

Jul 1, 2018

Fiddleheads Musical Theatre

Jul 1, 2018

Beyond the Franklin Expedition

Jul 5, 2018

Dig and Dive into Archaeology

Aug 3, 2018

Awesome Medieval

Aug 26, 2018

Taste of the Middle Ages With Véronique Rivest

Sep 14, 2018

Handmade Fun: Corn Husk Dolls

Aug 31, 2018

Medieval Europe – Power and Splendour

Jun 8, 2018 – Jan 20, 2019

A Little History

Mar 30, 2018 – Jan 27, 2019

Death in the Ice – The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition

Mar 2, 2018 – Sep 30, 2018

Picturing Arctic Modernity ― North Baffin Drawings from 1964

Feb 16, 2018 – Sep 3, 2018

Before the Erebus – The Making of Sir John Franklin

Jan 27, 2018 – Jan 20, 2019

Beyond Bluenose – The William James Roué Collection

Jul 1, 2017 – Jun 30, 2020

The Canadian History Hall

The Canadian Stamp Collection

First Peoples Hall

From Time Immemorial – Tsimshian Prehistory

Canadian Children’s Museum

Grand Hall

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

Fort Chambly

Jun 24, 2018

An elegant mustard pot from a seigneurial manor  

Jun 22, 2018

The Bergeron Circus

Jun 18, 2018

Coastal village

Jun 17, 2018

Twenty-three new digital exhibits supported by the Virtual Museum of Canada

Jun 13, 2018

Library of Parliament

Jun 10, 2018

Ottawa Senators sweater

Jun 10, 2018

New Exhibition Showcases the Power and Splendour of Medieval Europe

Jun 6, 2018

Alumni Day at the Canadian Museum of History

Apr 19, 2018

New series offers a taste of history with Canada’s most decorated sommelier

Apr 4, 2018

New exhibition reveals hidden stories of children in Canadian history

Mar 29, 2018

Canadian Museum of History marks the life and legacy of Thomas D’Arcy McGee

Mar 27, 2018