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The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver is a public gallery run by the British Columbia Photography and Media Arts Society. Its building received a Governor General’s Medal in Architecture in 2020.
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The Manitoba Children’s Museum opened in its present home at The Forks in Winnipeg on June 1, 1994. It occupies the oldest surviving train repair shop in Manitoba, built in 1889 by the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Company.
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The Hangar Flight Museum, formerly the Aero Space Museum of Calgary, began in 1975 as a non-profit association caring for aviation artifacts. Since 1985 it has occupied a former Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan drill hall at Calgary International Airport.
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The Ottawa Art Gallery explores the community’s history and development through art. Its expanded building, designed by KPMB and Régis Côté Architects, opened on April 28, 2018.
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The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery on Toronto’s waterfront opened in 1987 in a former coal-burning powerhouse built in 1926.
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TELUS Spark in Calgary traces its origins to the Calgary Centennial Planetarium, opened on July 1, 1967. The science centre opened at its present site in 2011.
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The Marine Museum of Manitoba, established in 1972, tells the story of shipping on Lake Winnipeg and the Red River from about 1850 to the present day. Visitors can board ships that sailed those waters.
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The Highland Village Museum in Iona, Nova Scotia, is a living history museum. The society behind it was founded in 1959 to interpret, preserve and promote the Scottish Gaelic language, culture and heritage of Nova Scotia.
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The Musée des ondes Emile Berliner in Montréal recalls that in 1904 Herbert Berliner, son of the gramophone’s inventor Emile Berliner, opened Canada’s first recording studio on Peel Street in Montréal.
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The Fashion History Museum in Cambridge, Ontario, was co-founded by Kenn Norman and Jonathan Walford. In late 2014 it was offered a lease on the old post office of the former town of Hespeler, which became its home.
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Saskatchewan legislation created the Western Development Museum on April 2, 1949. It built on earlier preservation work, including a farm-machinery collection displayed in a North Battleford hangar from 1947.
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The Reynolds Museum in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, opened in 1992. Named for collector Stanley George Reynolds, the provincially operated museum preserves vehicles, aircraft, agricultural machinery and related historical material.
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The Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Halifax traces its roots to 1868, when it opened as the Provincial Museum in rooms in the Post Office Building. Its present site at 1747 Summer Street was established in 1970.
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The Rooms in St. John’s opened in 2005. Its exhibitions explore the culture and history of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Remai Modern, on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, presents and collects local and international modern and contemporary art. It succeeds the Mendel Art Gallery, which ran its program from 1964 to 2015.
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The Winnipeg Railway Museum was established in 1992 by Midwestern Rail, a group founded in 1975 to celebrate the contributions railways have made to Winnipeg, Manitoba and their people.
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The Art Gallery of Hamilton opened on Sunday, June 28, 1914, with an inaugural exhibition of paintings by the Hamilton-born artist William Blair Bruce.
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The Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston opened to the public in 1957. Its first home was a building bequeathed by Agnes McCausland Etherington to support art and community.
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The Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père, formerly the Musée de la mer, is a non-profit museum founded in 1980 near Rimouski by divers who shared a passion for the wreck of the Empress of Ireland. In 2005 it acquired the submarine Onondaga.
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Photo: Photomontage: Orbitale. Onondaga and Empress of Ireland museum photographs: Alcide55 / G. Bouchard. Lighthouse photograph: Pierre-Étienne Messier. · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
Upper Canada Village was founded in eastern Ontario in 1961. The living-history site recreates daily life in a rural English Canadian community in 1866.
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The Manitoba Museum and its planetarium in Winnipeg were incorporated by two provincial acts in 1965 as part of the new Centennial Centre. The planetarium opened in May 1968, and Queen Elizabeth II opened the museum on July 15, 1970.
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The Diefenbunker in Carp, near Ottawa, is a four-storey underground bunker built between 1959 and 1961. It is now a museum and national historic site preserving Canada’s Cold War history.
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The Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia opened in 2010, putting UBC’s vast natural history collections on public display.
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The Beaverbrook Art Gallery’s permanent collection began in 1959 with a gift of 300 works from Lord Beaverbrook. Its early collection focused on British and Canadian painting.
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