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The Musée des Abénakis, in Odanak, Quebec, is the first Indigenous museum in Quebec. Since 1965 it has worked to preserve, pass on and share the living culture of the W8banakiak (Abenaki).
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Photo: Fralambert · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
The Military Museums in Calgary brings together the histories of Canada’s army, navy and air force. Its collections interpret Canadian military service.
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Photo: Mr.Marnier · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
The Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic is on Lunenburg’s historic waterfront in Nova Scotia, in the red buildings of a former fish processing plant, and holds stories and artifacts of the region’s fishing heritage.
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The Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown began collecting in 1964. Its holdings include research material on Robert Harris, the Charlottetown-raised painter of The Fathers of Confederation.
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Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
Science North, a science centre serving Northern Ontario from Sudbury, opened on June 19, 1984, and was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on October 4, 1984.
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Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay recreates Fort William as it was in 1815, when it served as the North West Company’s inland headquarters in the fur trade.
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The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria opened in 1951 in a mansion built in 1889. Its collection brings together historical and contemporary art.
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The Cosmodome in Laval, Quebec, opened in 1994. It is devoted to public education about space sciences.
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The Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum in Banff presents the heritage of the First Nations peoples of the Northern Plains and the Canadian Rockies.
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The MacBride Museum in Whitehorse opened to the public in 1952 as Yukon’s first museum, displaying its collection in the Old Telegraph Office. It was renamed in 1967 for co-founder William MacBride, in recognition of his role in preserving Yukon heritage.
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Photo: dvs from Vermont, USA · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
TELUS World of Science – Edmonton opened on July 1, 1984, as the Edmonton Space Sciences Centre. It replaced the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium, Canada’s first planetarium, which had opened in September 1960.
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The Comox Air Force Museum commemorates the history of 19 Wing Comox. Founded in 1982 within the Air Force Indoctrination School, it became an accredited Canadian Forces museum and opened to the public on September 12, 1987.
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Art Windsor-Essex, formerly the Art Gallery of Windsor, is a public art gallery in Windsor, Ontario, where art is made, presented and shared through exhibitions, programs and events.
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The Canadian Football Hall of Fame was awarded to Hamilton, Ontario, in February 1963, after a successful presentation by Mayor Lloyd D. Jackson.
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The Moncton Museum, part of Resurgo Place, holds artefacts and photographs recounting the region’s history. Its exhibit traces Moncton’s history from the time of the Mi’kmaq to today.
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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 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 New Brunswick Museum in Saint John maintains natural history collections that support research, exhibitions and education in botany, geology, palaeontology and zoology.
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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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Photo: Dr. Nipper · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context