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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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Photo: Government of Alberta · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
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 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 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 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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Photo: Vascobattuta at English Wikipedia · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
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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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 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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Photo: BuBZ at English Wikipedia · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
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 Winnipeg Art Gallery opened in 1912. In 2021 it expanded with Qaumajuq, an Inuit art centre, bringing a dedicated space for Inuit art into its Winnipeg cultural campus.
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Photo: Cayla at English Wikipedia · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
The Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa tells Canada’s story of science and technology through hands-on learning. Its permanent galleries explore steam-powered travel, sound technologies, natural resources and medical innovations.
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The Art Gallery of Alberta in downtown Edmonton presents Alberta’s artistic heritage alongside work by international artists. Its exhibitions support cultural exchange through visual art.
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Photo: Stella Blu · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia supports the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by building close working relationships with Indigenous peoples who have a claim to, or interest in, the material in its care.
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McGill University’s Redpath Museum in Montréal opened in 1882 to preserve and display the natural history collections of Sir William Dawson.
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The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history. It traces its origins to 1880, when it was mainly a collection of militia artifacts, and opened in its present building on LeBreton Flats in Ottawa on May 8, 2005.
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The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada’s national natural history museum. Its castle-like public building in Ottawa opened in 1912 and is a national historic site.
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Photo: RealGrouchy · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context