Acoustic Challenges Under the Dome
When you walk into the Canadian History Hall for the first time, you will notice the tremendous effort that has gone into its...
Psychoacoustics: The Social Side of Sound
Have you ever heard of psychoacoustics? It has to do with the subtle considerations of how people experience sound: how the sound...
Canadian History Hall Storytelling: The Human Experience
As the Canadian History Hall team began its task of creating an exhibition spanning 15,000 years, we looked closely at how we...
Giant Image of Canada Installed
Development of the new Canadian History Hall has just taken another major leap forward with the installation of a giant map of...
An Illustrated Gateway to History
When the Canadian History Hall opens on July 1, 2017, Canada’s 150th birthday, visitors will be led to the heart of the...
Toward the Confluence: THE CANOT DU MAÎTRE IN THE CANADIAN HISTORY HAL...
When it opens on July 1, 2017, the Canadian History Hall will feature about 1,800 artifacts that illuminate the history of Canada...
“For Seven Generations and Beyond” – A Conversation with Aboriginal Ad...
From the very beginning, the Canadian History Hall team has sought expert advice on developing the Hall’s content. Many...
The Canadian History Hall: Helping visitors understand the complexity ...
The Museum’s new signature gallery, the Canadian History Hall, is the most extensive exhibition on Canadian history ever...
The Canadian History Hall: A glimpse of the content to be featured in ...
The Canadian Museum of History has reached an important milestone in the development of the new Canadian History Hall, and we...
Vlog update from Chantal Amyot, Director of the Canadian History Hall ...
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The Canadian History Hall: Seeking Advice from Advisory Committees
From the beginning, the Canadian History Hall team realized the importance of seeking advice on content development — on what...
Canadian History Hall: Photo Update
As the Museum is in the final stages of removing structures from the former Canada Hall, we wanted to provide our readers with a...
Behind-the-Scenes of the Canadian History Hall project with Architect ...
An integral component of the Canadian History Hall project is transforming the space into a new major gallery dedicated to...
A Canadian Stone Comes Home
Between 1576 and 1578 in the Eastern Arctic, Sir Martin Frobisher and his men mined rocks they believed to contain gold. They...
Large Artifact, Small Space: Dodging Corners with the Dodge Fargo
In my last post on March 20, I wrote about a large birchbark canoe, and described how we removed it from the Fur Trade exhibit...
Don’t Bite the Dust: Keeping Our Artifacts Safe from Deterioration
In part 1 of this post, I talked about how the Museum assessed the potential impact of construction-related vibration on our...
Dust and Vibration Do Matter!
The Collections Management and Conservation team at the Canadian Museum of History is responsible for the preservation, care and...
Large Artifact, Small Space: The Seven Metre Canoe
Every day for the past six months or so, I’ve travelled across Canada — West to East usually — and it’s always been a...
Interview with Canadian History Hall Directors Chantal Amyot, Lisa Leb...
1) The new Canadian History Hall is the most important project the Museum has undertaken since 1989. What is your role in the...
Your Museum. Your Stories.
Welcome to a new space for showcasing Canadian stories.
The Canadian Museum of History has embarked on an ambitious...