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Musée canadien de la nature - Canadian Museum of Nature

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The Canadian Museum of Nature is a national natural history museum based in Canada's National Capital Region. The museum's exhibitions and …

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Feb 11, 2025
Beautiful building and while mostly geared to kids enough for adults to do in a few hours. The rock display is almost as good as the ROM in Toronto. The mammal display is great.Full review by Try2TravelSustainabl
Jan 15, 2025
As tourists we were delighted to see online that on a Thursday evening between 5-7 the museum is free to enter! We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and learning about Canadian nature and historyFull review by victoriacroc
Aug 23, 2024
After a 10 year absence this was a flying visit to the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa on a Thursday evening (5-8pm being free). Started at my favourite part - the video of the dinosaur extincti…Full review by Valise2
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The Canadian Museum of Nature is a natural history museum in Ottawa. Built between 1905 and 1911, the museum is housed in a beautif…
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The Canadian Museum of Nature is a natural history museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its collections, which were started by the Geologi…
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A walk through this heritage building, which chronicles Canada's natural history, will take you back in time to when dinosaurs roamed th…
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Established:1856
Located:240 McLeod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Visitors:461,797 (FY2018–19)
President:Danika Goosney
Chairperson:Karen Dodds
Curator:Jean-Marc Gagnon (Chief Scientist)
Type:Natural history museum

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Can I take pictures?
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Yes, you can take pictures
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Is the museum suitable for a 3 year old child?
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Hello, thank you for your question. Yes, the Museum is definitely appealing to 3 year-olds. They love our "deep-sea sub" and icebreaker "ship" play areas for young kids in our Water …
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Hello, thank you for your question. Yes, the Museum is definitely appealing to 3 year-olds. They love our "deep-sea sub" and icebreaker "ship" play areas for young kids in our Water Gallery, the live insects and other creatures in our Nature Live gallery as well as our live butterfly exhibition, to name a few. Hope to see you soon.
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Can you leave and re-enter the museum on the same day?
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Yes, I believe you can get a hand stamp.
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