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The Canadian Museum of History is Canada's national museum of human history, in Gatineau, Quebec, across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill. Its curving building by Douglas Cardinal opened in 1989. The Grand Hall shows Pacific Coast totem poles, the Canadian History Hall traces 15,000 years of history, and the building also houses the Canadian Children's Museum.
The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada's national natural history museum, housed since 1911 in the castle-like Victoria Memorial Museum Building in Ottawa. A glass tower was added in a renovation completed in 2010. Its galleries show fossils and dinosaurs, a blue whale skeleton, Canadian mammals and birds, minerals and an Arctic gallery.
The Canadian War Museum is Canada's national museum of military history, founded in 1942. Its building on LeBreton Flats in Ottawa, designed by Raymond Moriyama, opened in 2005. Galleries trace conflicts from early Indigenous warfare to Afghanistan with tanks, artillery, uniforms and art, and Memorial Hall holds the headstone of the Unknown Soldier of the First World War.
The Canada Aviation and Space Museum is Canada's national aviation museum, at the former Rockcliffe airfield in Ottawa. Formed in 1964 from three collections, it moved in 1988 into a large triangular hangar. More than 130 aircraft span early flight, bush planes, airliners and military jets, beside the nose section of the Avro Arrow and a Canadarm from the Space Shuttle.
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