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Ottawa Museums ; Yes, Ottawa has a world class variety! Please see a selection below.
Aviation Museum
Those of us that have a hankering’ for the sky, really want to take in a museum that has a mission to provide the visitor the flying history of Canada, and how that history affected that of the world.
It’s a bit historical, a bit futuristic, and last time I was there they had some neat “hands-on” displays.
If you like flying have a look at what they have on display at the Aviation Museum.
Canadian Museum of Civilization
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When you’re standing on the lookout behind the parliament buildings look to your right and just across the river.
That architecturally breathtaking building houses the Museum of Civilization.
For a fascinating glimpse into the history of civilization, Canadian and much of the world, this is a must see. It’s also a fairly pleasant walk on a warm summer’s day! Click here for more on the Museum of Civilization.
Museum of Anthropology at UBC
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| Established | 1947 |
| Location | 6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Type | First Nations culture |
| Director | Anthony Shelton |
| Website | Museum of Anthropology |
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is one of the foremost museums of Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations culture.[1] As well as being a major tourist destination, MOA is also a teaching museum, used in a number of courses at UBC, and a research museum.
Location
The Museum is located at 6393 Northwest Marine Drive, on the campus of the University of British Columbia. The Museum and UBC lie within the University Endowment Lands, which are not officially part of the City of Vancouver.
History
The Museum was founded in 1947 when the various items in UBC’s ethnographic collection were put on display in the basement of the Main Library. Dr. Harry Hawthorn served as the first director of the new Museum, with his wife, Dr. Audrey Hawthorn, serving as its first curator.
In 1971 the Museum received funds from the Government of Canada and UBC to begin construction of a new building. In 1976, the new building, designed by renowned Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, opened under new director Michael Ames, who served from 1974 to 1997. Walter and Marianne Koerner’s 1975 donation of their extensive collection of Northwest Coast First Nations art to the Museum formed a large part of the new building’s contents.
In 1997 Dr. Ruth Phillips became museum director. In 2002 Dr. Michael Ames returned as acting director. Dr. Anthony Shelton became director in 2004.
The building
Arthur Erickson’s building was inspired by the post-and-beam architecture of northern Northwest Coast First Nations people. Like much of Erickson’s work, the building is made primarily out of concrete.
Highlights
The most iconic object in the Museum is probably the yellow cedar sculpture The Raven and the First Men by Bill Reid, which is depicted on the Canadian twenty-dollar bill.
Other notable Bill Reid works include his Bear and Wasco (Sea Wolf) sculptures, some of his gold jewellery, and a prototype of the Haida dugout canoe he carved for Expo 86.
The Museum contains several large Musqueam artifacts from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Museum’s Great Hall contains many fragments of totem poles from Haida and other First Nations villages abandoned in the late nineteenth century due to disease brought by European traders.
The Museum has an extensive collection from the South Pacific.
Textiles: There are about 6000 textiles in the collection; about half of these come from Asia. Of particular note are the Cantonese Opera costumes that are considered some of the world’s finest. There are also have excellent holdings from the Northwest Coast, Oceania, Africa, and South America.
Historic Photography: The MOA Archive contains approximately 90,000 photographs that cover a wide range of cultures, ethnographic subjects and historical events. The collection dates from the 1890s and is an important resource for researchers, writers and communities.
Africa: There are approximately 2800 objects in the African collection. The earlier collections came to MOA via missionaries, travelers, and ex-colonial officers. The collection includes masks, Yoruba thorn carvings, over 100 Makonde figures from Tanzania, approximately 100 Asante Gold weights, weaponry from South Africa and, ca. 100 morturary objects from Egypt.
Asia (China, Japan, Korea, India): About 40% of MOA’s collection is from Asia. The Chinese collections include between 1000 and 1500 pieces of Chinese ceramics, Chinese calligraphy, and paintings (with four recently identified masterpieces from the collection of Ho Ping-ti). In addition, there is a large collection of Japanese prints, Buddhist art, Hindu art (including Gandhara sculpture), textiles and clothing, and Indian Calendar prints. Other collections include 2300 Chinese coins and amulets, 200 Sichaun blue thread embroideries dating to circa 1900, rare Tibetan robes, and masks from Noe (Japan), Sunni and Kolam (Sri Lanka), and Pongsan and Yangju (Korea).
The Haida houses outside the Museum were built by Bill Reid, who also carved, along with Douglas Cranmer, most of the totem poles surrounding them. The original Reid/Cranmer totem pole mounted on the front of the big house was taken inside in 2000 due to deterioration and replaced with the new “Respect to Bill Reid Pole” by Haida artist Jim Hart.
The renewal project
In 2006, the Museum launched a multi-million dollar project to create new research wing for the Museum, as well as new offices, laboratories, a culturally sensitive research room, recording studio, and new, 5,800 sq ft (540 m2) exhibition gallery. Other enhancements include a relocated and expanded Museum Shop, year-round cafe, and courtyard suitable for facility rentals. The project will be completed in 2009.
MOA is currently engaged in a $55.5 million expansion and renewal project called ‘A Partnership of Peoples.’ (For details, see http://www.moa.ubc.ca/renewal.) By project completion in January 2010, they will have dramatically redesigned their Visible Storage Galleries (renamed the Multiversity Galleries) and created a digital network (the Reciprocal Research Network) linking Northwest Coast collections in institutions worldwide. Also envisioned are exciting new exhibit galleries, visitor amenities, and state-of-the-art education and public programming spaces.
The Collections
 Totem pole at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC |
 Wood figures at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC |
 “The Raven and the First Men” by Bill Reid |
 First Nations totem poles and Haida houses |
 Carved figures inside museum |
 Back view of museum and outdoor exhibits |
 Native art |
 Haisla canoe |
 Haida pole |
 North American art |
 “Sea Wolf” carved by Bill Reid |
 Odler dish ware (Koerner gallery) |
 Kendi pot (Koerner gallery) |
 Slovak jug (Koerner gallery) |
 Holitsch dish (Koerner gallery) |
This Museum includes a number of large sculptures, totem poles, and cultural artifacts. Although the museum’s focus is on the First Nations of the Northwest Coast, the collection of 35,000 ethnological objects includes objects from all continents. These are mostly located in the visible storage section of the Museum, a gallery where objects that would normally be stored behind the scenes are made accessible to the public. The collections include contemporary works as well as historical objects. In addition to the ethnographic collections, MOA houses an archaeological collection of approximately 525,000 pieces. These are managed by UBC’s Laboratory of Archaeology. The Museum also has a small wing dedicated primarily to European ceramic art works collected by the late Walter Koerner. The Koerner Ceramics Gallery, which opened in 1990, contains over 600 European ceramics collected by Koerner, which he donated to the Museum in 1987.
Vancouver Police Museum
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| Established | 1986 |
| Location | 240 E. Cordova Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Type | Police Museum |
| Director | Chris Mathieson |
| Website | VPM |
Vancouver Police Museum, in the old Coroner’s Court/City Analyst building.
The Vancouver Police Museum (formerly Vancouver Police Centennial Museum) opened to commemorate the centennial of the Vancouver Police Department and the City of Vancouver, British Columbia in 1986. Located at 240 E. Cordova Street in Vancouver’s Gastown, the museum is housed in a building that was once both the Coroner’s Court and autopsy facilities (until 1980) and the City Analyst’s laboratory (until 1996). It was designed by architect Arthur J. Bird, and today it is a municipally designated heritage building.
The museum is run by the Vancouver Police Historical Society, a non-profit organization established in 1983 with the mandate to foster interest in the history of the Vancouver Police Department and to open a museum for this purpose. The catalyst for the project was the museum’s first curator, Joe Swan, a former police sergeant and amateur historian. Swan wrote the department’s official history book, which was published by the Vancouver Historical Society in 1986, entitled, A Century of Service: The Vancouver Police, 1886-1986.
The museum houses a collection of approximately 20,000 objects. This includes archival documents, photographs, publications, confiscated firearms and other weapons, counterfeit currency, and a various other artifacts and memorabilia, of which an estimated 40% is on display. The museum offers educational programs for children and walking tours of the neighbourhood on the theme, “Sins of the City.” The museum has a gift shop and publishes a quarterly newsletter.
The museum is self-funded through admission and program fees, membership fees, donations, gift shop sales, and project grants; the museum receives no direct funding from the Vancouver Police Department or the City of Vancouver but does receive in-kind support.
Vancouver Maritime Museum
Vancouver Maritime Museum
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| Established | 1959 |
| Location | 1905 Ogden Avenue Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6J 1A3 |
| Type | Maritime museum |
| Director | Mr Wesley Wenhardt |
| Website | http://www.vancouvermaritimemuseum.com |
The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a Maritime museum devoted to presenting the maritime history of Vancouver, British Columbia, and the Canadian Arctic. About to celebrate its 50th year of operating it is located just west of False Creek on the Vancouver waterfront. The main exhibit is the St. Roch, an historic arctic exploration vessel used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The museum also has extensive galleries of model ships, including one with historic model ships built entirely from cardboard or paper as well as a particularly fine bone model of the French warship “Vengeur de Peuple which was built around 1800 by French prisoners of war, a Children’s Maritime Discovery Centre, a recreation of the forecastle of Vancouver’s ship “Discovery”, an extensive collection of maritime art, and a large library and archives. It displays outside the NASA undersea research vessel “Ben Franklin” and the boiler of the “Beaver”, the first steamship in the Pacific NW; it also has a small heritage harbour. There is a workshop where visitors can watch craftsmen build models. Of particular significance is the extensive Chung collection of material relating to Canadian Pacific Steamships and original hand drawn charts from Captain Cook’s exploration of the Pacific.
The St. Roch is enclosed in an A-frame, which, unfortunately, has not proven to be the ideal structure for her preservation or display. The St. Roch needs some conservation work and her protective structure needs to be replaced with a larger structure with better climate control.
Captain George Vancouver Special Exhibit
In 2007, the museum featured a special exhibit of a series of paintings documenting Captain George Vancouver’s famous voyages to the Pacific Northwest. The exhibit was in honor of the 250th anniversary of Vancouver’s birth. The current (2008) main exhibition is on oceans and global warming.
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Canadian Museum of Nature
 The east face of the Victoria Memorial Museum Building |
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| Type | Museum |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival, Scottish baronial. |
| Location | 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa, Ontario |
| Owner | Government of Canada |
| Current tenants | Canadian Museum of Nature |
| Coordinates |  45°24′46″N 75°41′20″W / 45.41266°N 75.68875°W / 45.41266; -75.68875Coordinates: 45°24′46″N 75°41′20″W / 45.41266°N 75.68875°W / 45.41266; -75.68875 |
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| Started | 1905 |
| Completed | 1912 |
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| Architect | David Ewart |
The Canadian Museum of Nature (French: Musée Canadien de la nature) is a natural history museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its collections, which were started by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1856, include all aspects of the intersection of human society and nature, from gardening to gene-splici.
The Building
The building, known as the Victoria Memorial Museum Building, was built in former farm fields known as Appin Place, the estate of the Scottish-born merchant, William Stewart. The neighbourhood became known as Stewarton and residential development started in the area during the 1870s.[2] The government purchased the land in 1905 hoping to develop the site as a sort of ‘end piece’ to complement the stone structure of the Canadian Parliament Buildings at the opposite end of Metcalfe Street, on Parliament Hill.[3]
This massive stone structure is an excellent example of early 20th century architecture in Ottawa, and was built for $1,250,000 by architect David Ewart who is responsible for many similar structures around the city.[3] The construction of the building involved the importing of 300 skilled stone masons from Scotland.[3] The architectural style is sometimes described as ‘Scottish baronial.’ Ewart was sent to Britain to study the architecture of Hampton Court and Windsor Castle, which greatly influenced his design of this building.[4]
Unfortunately, because of the presence of unstable Leda clay in the geology of the site, a tall tower that was situated at the front of the building had to be taken down in 1915 due to settling and the concern that the foundation could not support the weight. The unstable site forced some workers to stop working, as shifting foundations in the basement shot bricks and stones out from the walls, hitting some construction workers.[5]
The building found itself filling a more auspicious role than originally intended when in 1916, fire consumed the majority of the Centre Block on Parliament Hill. The recently completed Victoria Museum Building became the temporary home of the House of Commons, and the affairs of the government were run from the site until the completion of the new Parliament building in 1922.[3]
In 1968, the National Museum that occupied the building was split into the National Museum of Nature (eventually renamed the Canadian Museum of Nature) and the National Museum of Man (eventually renamed the Canadian Museum of Civilization), although both entities continued to share the same edifice. In 1989, the Canadian Museum of Civilization moved to a new location in Gatineau, Quebec, and the Canadian Museum of Nature (http://nature.ca) was able to occupy the entire Victoria Memorial Museum Building.
A major renovation of all parts of the building, which began in 2004, is expected to be completed in 2010, including a lighter-weight glass “lantern” taking the place of the former tower. The renovation plan exemplifies the difficulty of determining what building features to preserve in old buildings, as the installation of the modern lantern (meant to evoke the pre-1915 history of the building) necessitates the demolition of the historical mezzanine over the main entrance (home to distinctive double staircases).
Statues outside the museum.
Welcome to the Redpath Museum
The Redpath Museum, one of Canada’s oldest free-standing museums, functions as a unique interdisciplinary unit within the Faculty of Science. As a Museum it preserves and displays large collections of ancient and modern organisms, minerals, and world culture (ethnological) artefacts. As an academic unit it serves as a centre for the teaching and writing of science, as well as a research centre for the history of life and biodiversity of the planet.
Research
Research at the museum is focused on evolution, from working out the details of the 3,5 billion year history of life on the planet to examining how creatures and systems are changing today. The researchers of the museum can be found on the staff page and their findings can be found both on their individual staff pages and in the publications section of the site.
Courses taught at the Museum
Museum courses include Science Writing, offered at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as a new museum studies course, Science and Museums, which focuses on the history of research and management of natural history collections. Museum staff teach courses in several departments such as Biology or the School of the Environment, or Anthropology, and yet more courses are taught in the museum by videoconference from the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at Macdonald College.
At the graduate level, students wanting to study biosystematics and evolutionary biology can find several supervisors working on a variety of topics. Students from other, related departments can also be supported by the museum.
Exhibits and public programming
Exhibits at the museum are found on all three floors and focus on natural history, world cultures (ethnology), and mineralogy. Popular specimens include dinosaurs, shells, mummies and a wide variety of Quebec minerals.
A robust public programme includes activities such as documentary films, public lectures, Sunday discovery workshops for children and tours inside and outside of the museum.
Aero Space Museum
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Location in Calgary
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| Established | 1975 |
| Location | 4629 McCall Way NE,  Calgary |
| Director | Steve Ogle |
| Website | Aero Space Museum |
There is also the San Diego Aerospace Museum.
The Aero Space Museum is a museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The museum is located immediately south of the Calgary International Airport.
The museum was founded in 1975 by aviation enthusiasts and former World War II pilots. It showcases the history of aviation and space technology of Western Canada. Over 24 aircraft are on display, as well as 58 aeronautical engines.[1] A section details the Canadian space programs. Archives containing documents about aeronautics are also located on the premises.
Artifacts at the museum include military aircraft: a Sopwith Triplane from the First World War and an Avro Lancaster from the Second World War. There are also civilian aircraft made by Cessna and de Havilland, as well as a Sikorsky helicopter. The museum also has a large library open to the public.
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