Canadian War Museum

The Canadian War Museum is a national museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada dedicated to the country's military history. The museum serves as both an instructional institution on Canadian military history, in addition to functioning as a place of memory. The 440,000 square metre (4,700,000 square foot) museum building is located in LeBreton Flats, south of the Ottawa River. The museum has several exhibitions and memorials, as well as a café, theater, curatorial and conservation areas, and storage space. In addition to the Military History Research Centre, the building houses the museum's library and archives.

The Canadian War Museum was originally created in 1942, but portions of its holdings date back to an earlier military museum that existed from 1880 to 1896. The Public Archives of Canada ran the museum until 1967, when the National Museums of Canada Corporation was founded to handle many national institutions, including the war museum. The military museum was transferred from its original location to the former Public Archives of Canada building the same year. In 1990, the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (later renamed the Canadian Museum of History Corporation) took over management of the museum. During the mid-1990s, plans to expand the museum led in the construction of a new facility at LeBreton Flats. Designed by Moriyama & Teshima Architects and Griffiths Rankin Cook Architects, the new Canadian War Museum building was unveiled to the public in 2005.

The museum's collection includes approximately 500,000 items of military history material, including over 13,000 works of military art. Aside from its permanent exhibit, the museum has sponsored and arranged a number of traveling exhibitions about Canadian military history.

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Address: 1 Vimy Pl, Ottawa, ON K1A 0M8, Canad

Phone: +1 800-555-5621

Website: https://www.warmuseum.ca/