We wanted to include everything! Behind the scenes of From Pepinot to ...
Over the past few years, for the team developing From Pepinot to PAW Patrol® – Television of our Childhoods, the good news was...
Creating a History of Canadian Children’s Television: Belonging and In...
From Pépinot to Paw Patrol® – Television of Our Childhoods takes a nostalgic, emotional, historical and reflective look at 70...
Robert Demers: Legal Eagle in the 1970 October Crisis
The October Crisis shook Montréal, Quebec and Canada in 1970. In Montréal on October 5, a Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)...
Unearthing Canada’s First World War Internment History
The War Measures Act, enacted on August 22, 1914, gave the Canadian government sweeping powers to conduct the war. In...
Successful symposium inspires new ideas for Children’s Museum renewal...
At more than 30 years of age, the Canadian Children’s Museum is never too old to learn. And with the Canadian Museum of History...
What makes us human?
The exhibition Neanderthal runs until January 26, 2020 at the Canadian Museum of History, and that is its only stop in North...
The Making of Medieval Europe – Power and Splendour
Spanning the years AD 400 to 1500, from the fall of Rome to the beginning of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages in Europe was a...
William Notman: Witness and Photographer of the Victorian era
Why in 2018 should we be interested in William Notman? Perhaps because his success bears such powerful witness to interesting...
Seeking Indigenous Stories
The Canadian Museum of History has just launched a website to ask the public to share stories about members of Indigenous...
Bringing Franklin’s ships to life
Death in the Ice — The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition tells the story of Sir John Franklin’s tragic final voyage, which...
Inuit drawings capture a changing world
Picturing Arctic Modernity – North Baffin Drawings From 1964, a new exhibition at the Canadian Museum of History, offers vivid...
The appeal of snow
Snow. We love it, we hate it; it’s fun, it’s a nuisance. Whether it sparks a sense of wonder or dread, there’s no denying...
Inuit Knowledge and the Franklin Expedition Exhibition
On September 2, 2017, the Government of Canada redrew the boundary of the Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic...
The Team of the Century
Team Canada’s victory over the Soviet Union’s national hockey team on September 28, 1972, is one of the most celebrated...
Inuit drawings provide a priceless record of social change
The mid-1960s was a time of profound change for the Inuit of Canada’s Eastern Arctic as they were moved off the land and into...
Remembering the Franklin Expedition — The Lieutenant Fairholme Collect...
The story of the Franklin Expedition is familiar to many Canadians, and to many people around the world. An Arctic expedition,...
Video: Exhibitions 2017-2018
Welcome to your history! See why the Canadian Museum of History is the place to be as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of...
Introducing the Franklin Exhibition
May 19 marks the date that the Franklin Expedition set sail on an Arctic venture from England, in 1845, never to return. Now,...
Fan Rituals: A Part of Hockey History
As the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs are underway, the beards of your favourite NHL players are growing longer. The ritual of growing...
Snapshots of Canada
How do you tell Canada’s story with photographs both iconic and less familiar? That was the dilemma facing me when developing...