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The Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa

The Victoria Memorial Museum Building, now home of the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, photographed in 2018.
The Victoria Memorial Museum Building, now home of the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, photographed in 2018. Victoria Memorial Museum Building (Canadian Museum of Nature) · Navpreet Singh · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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The Victoria Memorial Museum in Ottawa, built from 1905 to 1911, was the first purpose-built federal museum in Canada, the culmination of decades of effort by the Geological and Natural History Survey. When completed in 1911 it housed the National Gallery and the Survey’s collections, and it was a leader in new exhibit techniques.

Scope & context

The building and its place in Canadian museology, not the Canadian Museum of Nature’s current exhibits.

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