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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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Casa Loma in Toronto was built as the home of financier Sir Henry Pellatt. In 1911, Pellatt worked with Canadian architect E.J. Lennox on plans for the castle-like residence, which took three years to build.
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The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, studies ancient life and presents dinosaur fossils and other palaeontological collections. It is operated by the Government of Alberta.
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The Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau explores the histories and cultures of what is now Canada. Its institutional roots date to 1856, and it stands on the traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg.
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Founded in 1860, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts collects and presents art from different cultures and periods. Its collections include Quebec and Canadian heritage, Indigenous art and international art.
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The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto holds Indigenous, Canadian, European and contemporary art. Its exhibitions and programs bring these collections into dialogue with artists and audiences.
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The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa holds collections ranging from Indigenous and Canadian art to European works and contemporary installations.
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The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto brings together artworks, cultural artifacts and natural history specimens from different places and periods. Its collections connect the study of human cultures with the natural world.
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David Ross McCord, of a prominent Montréal family, built one of the earliest and most important collections of objects, images and manuscripts on Canada’s history. Believing that knowing the past strengthens national identity, he spent most of his life and fortune gathering some 15,000 items on Indigenous, French and British history in North America, and left them to McGill University, which founded the museum he had dreamed of.
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Calgary’s Central Memorial Library and Park opened in 1912 and is one of the largest and most imposing of the 125 Carnegie libraries built in Canada. A project of local women led by Annie Davidson, funded with Andrew Carnegie, it served as the city’s main library until 1963 and as a social and cultural centre for more than a century.
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The Victoria Memorial Museum in Ottawa, built from 1905 to 1911, was the first purpose-built federal museum in Canada, the culmination of decades of effort by the Geological and Natural History Survey. When completed in 1911 it housed the National Gallery and the Survey’s collections, and it was a leader in new exhibit techniques.
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, opened in 2014. It describes itself as the first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebration and future of human rights.
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Canada’s National Arts Centre in Ottawa opened on 2 June 1969, two years after the centennial that inspired it. Built to produce and present music, opera, theatre and dance, it was designed to be bilingual, reflecting Canada’s linguistic duality.
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The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation officially opened in 2015. Statements, documents and other materials gathered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission became a central part of its work of preserving residential school history.
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