Canadian museum of the war

The Canadian Musée of the war is a Canadian museum being with Ottawa, in Ontario, which honors the Canadian veterans and commemorates the wars and conflicts to which Canada took share.

Created in 1880, it was, until in September 2004, on the Promenade Sussex, between the Canadian royal Monnaie and the Musée of the fine arts of Canada. This place was very small and a good part of the collection of the museum was to be stored more in a warehouse in the west known under the name of Maison Vimy, which was before a bus depot for the town of Ottawa.

A new building was built with the Plaines Lebreton a little in the west of the parliamentary hill, and the museum again opened its doors at this place in May 2005. The new building, very modern, is enough large to make it possible the museum to expose most of its artefacts. The building was drawn to evoke the war, and the windows on the roof spell never forget and Lest we forget in Code Morse. The copper used inside the building comes from the roof of the Bibliothèque of the Parliament which was renovated in 2004.

The permanent exposure is articulated around four galleries evoking four periods different from the military history of Canada. The first gallery is devoted to the wars of the period preceding the contacts with Europeans, until in 1885. The second milked gallery of the period going of 1885 with 1931 and in particular of the participation of Canada in the first world war. The third, as for it, covers the period following until the Second world war. Lastly, the fourth gallery goes from the Cold war to the modern conflicts and operations of maintenance of peace.

A living room honors the Canadian royal Légion and the memory with the Canadian combatants through the ages.

The Canadian museum of the war has a very large collection of objects which dates from the colonial period until the war of the gulf and the operations of maintenance of peace. It has also one of the largest collection of military vehicles and artillery of the world. But the most famous object pertaining to the museum is without any doubt the personal limousine Mercedes of Adolf Hitler. The museum also has a very large collection of works of art connected to the war.

The museum counts also a research center on the military history opened with the public containing 410 meters linear of paper documents in any kind, more than 65.000 photographic documents and 55.000 books on the military subjects.

See too

military History of Canada

External bond

Official site of the Canadian Museum of the war

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