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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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Photo: Milorad Dimic MD, Nis, Serbia · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA) presents contemporary art in Toronto. At its former location on Queen Street West, it served as a hub for creative exchange and helped shape the city’s contemporary art scene.
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Photo: Roberta Cibin · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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 Canada Agriculture and Food Museum is on the historic Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, five kilometres from Parliament Hill. It is a working dairy farm, home to farm animal breeds important to Canadian agriculture past and present.
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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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The Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto is dedicated to textile arts. It grew from the Canadian Museum of Carpets and Textiles, founded by Max Allen and Simon Waegemaekers in Toronto’s Mirvish Village.
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The McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario, preserves historical and contemporary Canadian and Indigenous art. Its collection includes work by Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven and generations of Indigenous artists.
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Photo: Stephanie Spencer · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.5 · Credit & context
The Royal Saskatchewan Museum was established in 1906. Its collections and research explore Saskatchewan’s natural history and Indigenous cultural heritage, with museum sites in Regina and Eastend.
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The Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal was founded by Phyllis Lambert in 1979. A research institution and museum, it uses exhibitions, publications, collections and public programs to explore architecture as a public concern.
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Pointe-à-Callière opened to the public on May 17, 1992, during Montréal’s 350th-anniversary celebrations. The museum complex interprets the city’s archaeology and history.
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Photo: Jean Gagnon · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
Exporail, the Canadian Railway Museum in Saint-Constant, Quebec, was founded in 1961 by the Canadian Railroad Historical Association and opened to the public in 1965 with 25 trams, 20 steam locomotives and 5 passenger cars. In 2007 the House of Commons recognized it as the National Railway Museum.
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Photo: Fraccle · Photo licence: CC BY 3.0 · Credit & context
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic interprets Nova Scotia’s maritime history on the Halifax waterfront. In 1982 it was established at its waterfront site, which includes the historic Robertson & Son ship chandlery.
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The Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton opened on December 6, 1967, as the Provincial Museum and Archives of Alberta, a partnership between the federal Confederation Memorial Centennial Program and the Government of Alberta.
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The Village at Black Creek in Toronto, formerly Black Creek Pioneer Village, explores regional history through storytelling, heritage buildings and hands-on activities. Its interpretation includes the many communities that have shaped the region, including Indigenous peoples.
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Photo: John Griffiths from London, United Kingdom · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 · Credit & context
The Ontario Science Centre officially opened in Toronto on September 26, 1969. Architect Raymond Moriyama was commissioned in 1964 to design the centre as an Ontario project marking Canada’s Centennial.
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The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village commemorates the Ukrainian settlement of east central Alberta. A society founded in 1971 began it, the Province of Alberta acquired the site in 1975, and more than 40 buildings have been moved there and restored to their early 20th-century appearance.
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The McCord Stewart Museum in Montréal, a museum of life in Montréal, first opened its doors as the McCord National Museum on October 13, 1921.
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The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax traces its history to 1908. It took its present name under the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Act in 1975.
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The Gardiner Museum in Toronto was opened in 1984 by George and Helen Gardiner to house their collection of ancient American artifacts and European pottery and porcelain.
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The Royal BC Museum in Victoria brings together museum collections and the BC Archives. Located on lək̓ʷəŋən territory, it uses collections, exhibitions and outreach to deepen understanding of British Columbia.
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Photo: Michal Klajban · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Barkerville Historic Town in British Columbia’s Cariboo region developed around Billy Barker’s gold strike on Williams Creek. The national historic site preserves a Gold Rush streetscape and heritage buildings.
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Photo: JMEG · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context