Museum directory

Museums in Canada

86 museums holding antiquities, coins and archaeology collections.

U'mista Cultural Centre
Alert Bay — Repatriated Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch regalia.

Barkerville Historic Town
Barkerville — Gold-rush town preserved whole.

Batoche National Historic Site
Batoche — Métis village and 1885 battlefield.

Ryan Premises
Bonavista — Five centuries of the cod fishery.

Woodland Cultural Centre
Brantford — Haudenosaunee history and residential-school truth.

DesBrisay Museum
Bridgewater — South Shore history and Mi'kmaw quillwork.

Britannia Mine Museum
Britannia Beach — Copper mine you ride into.

Fort Calgary
Calgary — 1875 Mounted Police post at the confluence.

Glenbow Museum
Calgary — Western Canadian history and world cultures.

Village Historique Acadien
Caraquet — Acadian life from 1770 onward, house by house.

Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia
Cherry Brook — African Nova Scotian history and heritage.

Restigouche Regional Museum
Dalhousie — North-shore New Brunswick history.

Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre
Dawson City — Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in history on the Yukon River.

Royal Tyrrell Museum
Drumheller — Canada's dinosaur museum in the Alberta badlands.

Fort Edmonton Park
Edmonton — Four eras of Edmonton, street by street.

Royal Alberta Museum
Edmonton — Western Canada's largest museum — Indigenous cultures and natural history.

Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village
Edmonton — Pioneer settlement east of the city.

Colony of Avalon
Ferryland — Active dig of a 1621 English colony.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Fort Macleod — 6,000-year buffalo hunt site — UNESCO.

Fredericton Region Museum
Fredericton — Regional history in the old officers' quarters.

Canadian Museum of History
Gatineau — Archaeology and world cultures.

Grand-Pré National Historic Site
Grand-Pré — Acadian homeland and deportation memorial — UNESCO.

Army Museum Halifax Citadel
Halifax — Military artifacts inside the hilltop fort.

Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Halifax — Age of Sail, shipwrecks, and Titanic recoveries.

Naval Museum of Halifax
Halifax — Canada's navy from convoys to the Cold War.

Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
Halifax — Mi'kmaq heritage and Atlantic natural history.

Albert County Museum
Hopewell Cape — County history beside the Fundy tides.

Highland Village Museum
Iona — Gaelic living-history village above the Bras d'Or.

Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum
Iqaluit — Inuit art and artifacts in a former HBC building.

Joggins Fossil Centre
Joggins — Coal-age fossil cliffs — UNESCO World Heritage.

Fort Henry
Kingston — 19th-century citadel above the St. Lawrence.

L'Anse aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows — The only confirmed Norse site in North America — UNESCO.

Museum of Ontario Archaeology
London — 500-year-old Lawson village site with digs.

Fortress of Louisbourg
Louisbourg — Reconstructed 18th-century French fortress town.

Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic
Lunenburg — Fishing heritage on a UNESCO waterfront.

Huronia Museum
Midland — Georgian Bay archaeology and a Wendat village.

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons
Midland — Reconstructed 1639 French mission in Wendake.

Acadian Museum
Miscouche — Acadian story of Prince Edward Island.

McCord Stewart Museum
Montreal — Montreal social history and outstanding Indigenous collections.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal — Mediterranean and ancient art.

Pointe-à-Callière
Montreal — Archaeology museum atop Montreal's birthplace.

Redpath Museum
Montreal — Egyptian and natural-history collections.

Ross Farm Museum
New Ross — Working 19th-century farm, tools in daily use.

Niagara Falls History Museum
Niagara Falls — War of 1812 and the Falls' long story.

Musée des Abénakis
Odanak — First Indigenous museum in Quebec.

Bytown Museum
Ottawa — Ottawa's oldest stone building, canal-era objects.

Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa — National natural-history collections.

Canadian War Museum
Ottawa — Canada's military history from Indigenous conflicts to peacekeeping.

Diefenbunker Cold War Museum
Ottawa — Four-storey nuclear bunker, fully preserved.

Canadian Canoe Museum
Peterborough — The world's largest canoe collection.

Age of Sail Heritage Centre
Port Greville — Shipbuilding on the Bay of Fundy shore.

Fort la Reine Museum
Portage la Prairie — Prairie settlement buildings and wagons.

Kings Landing
Prince William — Loyalist living-history settlement on the Saint John River.

Musée de la civilisation
Quebec City — Quebec's history and material culture.

Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Regina — First Nations galleries and Saskatchewan natural history.

Musée régional de Rimouski
Rimouski — Regional history and art on the St. Lawrence.

Musée du Fjord
Saguenay — Natural and human history of the fjord.

New Brunswick Museum
Saint John — Canada's oldest continuing museum, founded 1842.

Wanuskewin Heritage Park
Saskatoon — 6,000 years of Northern Plains archaeology.

Western Development Museum
Saskatoon — Boomtown main street and prairie machines.

Sherbrooke Village
Sherbrooke (NS) — An entire preserved 1860s Nova Scotia village.

Haida Heritage Centre
Skidegate — Haida poles, canoes, and living culture.

Basin Head Fisheries Museum
Souris — Inshore fishery, by the singing sands.

Johnson Geo Centre
St. John's — Geology of the oldest rocks on the island.

The Rooms
St. John's — Newfoundland and Labrador's museum, gallery, and archives with harbour views.

Mennonite Heritage Village
Steinbach — Russian Mennonite settlement, windmill and all.

Museum of Industry
Stellarton — Nova Scotia's industrial and mining story.

Eptek Art & Culture Centre
Summerside — Island history and art on the waterfront.

Membertou Heritage Park
Sydney — Mi'kmaw culture and living traditions.

Musée minéralogique et minier
Thetford Mines — Mining history of the Appalachian belt.

Fort William Historical Park
Thunder Bay — Fur-trade post at full living scale.

Aga Khan Museum
Toronto — Islamic art and manuscripts across a millennium.

Bata Shoe Museum
Toronto — 4,500 years of footwear, some astonishingly old.

Gardiner Museum
Toronto — Ceramics from ancient Americas to porcelain.

Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto — Egyptian, Greek, and Roman galleries.

Musée POP
Trois-Rivières — Quebec popular culture and folk objects.

Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Vancouver — Northwest Coast monumental art and world archaeology.

Museum of Vancouver
Vancouver — Regional archaeology and world cultures.

Vancouver Maritime Museum
Vancouver — Arctic exploration and the St. Roch.

Royal BC Museum
Victoria — British Columbia's human and natural history — superb First Nations galleries.

Musée Huron-Wendat
Wendake — Huron-Wendat Nation history and objects.

MacBride Museum
Whitehorse — Yukon history — First Nations, gold rush, and the north.

Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
Whitehorse — Ice-age Beringia — mammoths and giant beavers.

Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Winnipeg — Ideas museum with powerful artifacts.

Manitoba Museum
Winnipeg — Nine galleries and a full-size replica of the Nonsuch ketch.

Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Yellowknife — NWT archaeology and northern life.

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