Museum · Gatineau (Hull)
Canadian Museum of History
100 Laurier Street, Gatineau, QC, Ottawa K1A 0M8
Canada's most visited museum faces Parliament Hill from the Gatineau side of the Ottawa River, in Douglas Cardinal's curving limestone building. The Grand Hall holds a forest of Pacific Coast totem poles, while the Canadian History Hall and the First Peoples Hall tell the country's story from the earliest times to today. It also houses the Canadian Children's Museum.
Permanent exhibitions
- Grand Hall: Pacific Northwest Coast totem poles and house facades
- Canadian History Hall: the story of Canada from 15,000 years ago to today
- First Peoples Hall: history and cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis
- Canadian Stamp Collection
- Canadian Children's Museum
- Indian Residential School Memorial Monument
