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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 Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario, preserves canoes, kayaks and other paddled watercraft. It is on the traditional territory of the Williams Treaties First Nations.
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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 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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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 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 Banff Park Museum preserves vintage botanical and zoological specimens in downtown Banff. Its displays show how natural history was understood in Canada near the end of the Victorian era.
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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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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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