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A night view of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, featuring its distinctive glass and stone architecture, a large illuminated "WINNIPEG" sign in the foreground, and a transit shelter with a "CN" logo.

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Museums in Canada

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  • across 27 destinations
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Museums in Canada

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A red brick building with a central cupola and a sign in the front yard reading "MUSEUM" and "ENTRANCE".

Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario

Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum

Museum of 9,000 years of regional history
Red wooden buildings of the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic on the Lunenburg waterfront

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Lunenburg Maritime Heritage Centre
A low-rise concrete building with "GALERIE D'ART MUSÉE ACADIEN" lettering on the facade, surrounded by green lawns and trees.

Moncton, New Brunswick

Acadian Museum
A highway interchange scene showing a large welcome sign reading "BROCKVILLE CITY OF THE 1000 ISLANDS" alongside road signs for Highway 696 and Highway 401.

Brockville, Ontario

Brockville Museum
A large, grey stone building with Gothic Revival architecture featuring crenellated towers and arched windows, with a parking lot and landscaping in the foreground.

Ottawa, Ontario

Canadian Museum of Nature

National natural history museum in Ottawa
A large, modernist building with a distinctive dark, blocky upper section and a lower horizontal wing, viewed across a grassy field populated by geese.

Regina, Saskatchewan

Conexus Arts Centre

Performing arts centre in Wascana Centre
A stone gateway with the word "CITADEL" carved into the keystone, flanked by stone walls and a grassy rampart, with a soldier in a red coat and kilt standing guard in the foreground.

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax Citadel National Historic Site
A large geodesic dome structure situated on a grassy hill surrounded by trees, viewed from a paved plaza with a low stone wall in the foreground.

Montreal, Quebec

Biodome

Five Americas ecosystems under one roof
A red brick building with a classical entrance and a modern glass extension, featuring a sign above the entrance that reads "SOUTHERN ALBERTA ART GALLERY".

Lethbridge, Alberta

Lethbridge Art Gallery
A large, light-colored brick mansion with distinctive green trim, striped awnings, and a prominent corner turret, viewed from a garden path.

Ottawa, Ontario

Laurier House National Historic Site

Former prime ministerial residence in Ottawa
A two-part heritage building complex featuring a white clapboard house with green trim and a red wooden annex with a balcony, set on a grassy lawn with trees.

Smiths Falls, Ontario

Smiths Falls Museum
A foggy landscape showing a line of bare trees along a riverbank with mist rising from the water surface under an overcast sky.

Morrisburg, Ontario

Morrisburg Historical Society Archives

Historical archives in Morrisburg, Ontario

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