Museums throughout Canada

Featuring easy-to-navigate links to national and provincial museums throughout Canada. If you know of a Canadian Museum and we do not have it listed, please let us know add it ito this web site: E-Mail

The Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology
Opened in 1985, the Royal Tyrrell Museum is known the world over as an outstanding palaeontology museum and research facility. Our mandate is to collect, conserve, research, display and interpret palaeontological history with special reference to Alberta's fossil heritage.

The Glenbow Museum Calgary
Glenbow is western Canada's largest museum, with over 93,000 square feet of exhibition space spreading over three floors. More than 20 galleries are filled with artifacts from Glenbow's collection of over a million objects.

Alberta Aviation Museum
27 Historical Aircraft on Display, Over 40 Display Cabinets and Exhibits, Active Aircraft Restoration Area Personal Artifact Displays of Famous Bush Pilots W.R. "Wop" May, Stan McMillan and others.

The Alberta Railway Museum
Located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the Alberta Railway Museum (ARM) houses a collection of various railway equipment and buildings. Our main emphasis is on cars and locomotives from the Canadian National Railways (CNR) and Northern Alberta Railways.

Canadian Museum of Flight
The Canadian Museum of Flight currently has 23 aircraft on display. We're proud to have them on the World Wide Web so that you may enjoy them.

The Maritime Museum of British Columbia
The fog shrouded Pacific Coast of North America has a deep and rich heritage that spans the centuries from the first aboriginal cultures to European exploration and early settlement. Meet great characters such as Captains James Cook and George Vancouver.

The Royal British Columbia Museum
The Royal BC Museum rewards visitors with a magical journey through BC's history. Two intriguing floors of exhibits bring the past to life. The First Peoples Gallery with its forest of poles.

Vancouver Maritime Museum
We are Canada's principal maritime museum on the Pacific, located in the heart of Canada's greatest ports at the gateway to the Pacific Rim. For 45 years, we have been Pacific Canada's premier link to maritime history, art, culture, industry and technology.

Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature
The Museum’s collections reflect the heritage of Manitoba and other regions of the world. Eight interpretive galleries explore the history and environment of the province from its northern Arctic coast to its southern prairie grasslands.

Winnipeg Railway Museum
The perfect way to start your your trip to Canada's North is to visit the museum and learn more about Manitoba's rail heritage.

Moncton Museum
The Museum explores and showcases many facets of Moncton's history through a variety of mediums: its permanent collection, temporary and travelling exhibits, research library and educational programs.

Newfoundland Museum
Significant collections are maintained in three curatorial subject areas: Archaeology and Ethnology, History, and Natural History. Most of the collections have a direct relevance to the Newfoundland and Labrador region. At last count, the collections contained more than a million artifacts.

Nova Scotia Museum
Is the corporate name for the most decentralized museum in Canada - 27 museums across the province, including over 200 historic buildings, living history sites, vessels, specialized museums and close to a million artifacts and specimens.

Canadian Museum of Nature
From valuable minerals and fossils hidden beneath our feet to the trees that make the oxygen we breathe, from Arctic plants to zebra mussels and everything in between, nature touches every aspect of our lives.

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
Is a living museum featuring the aircraft used by Canadians or Canada's Military from the beginning of World War II up to the present. The Museum's collection includes aircraft that really fly and several that remain on static display and are interactive workshops.

Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum collects and exhibits the cultural and natural history of Canada and the world. Featuring extraordinary objects, of scientific, cultural and artistic importance.

Green Gables
The home was once the farmhouse of Margaret and David Macneill, who were cousins of Lucy Maud's grandfather. Lucy Maud visited their farm often as a child and based the setting of her novel Anne of Green Gables on the home and its surroundings.

Canadian Museum of Civilization
As the national museum of human history, the Canadian Museum of Civilization is committed to fostering in all Canadians a sense of their common identity and their shared past. At the same time, it hopes to promote understanding between the various cultural groups that are part of Canadian society.

Musee du Quebec
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec's collection includes more than 22,000 works, produced mainly in Québec between the beginnings of the colony and the present day.

Montreal Museum of Modern Art
The sole Canadian institution dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, the Musée offers a varied program ranging from presentations of its Permanent Collection to exhibitions of works by Québec, Canadian and international artists.

Royal Saskatchewan Museum
This site contains information on our galleries, science departments, public programs and much more.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Centennial Museum
The regimental museum of the Mounted Police recounting the history of more than 125 proud years of service. Visitors from all over the globe enjoy displays of RCMP artifacts bring alive the history, and accomplishments of the world's most famous police forces.

Dawson City Museum and Historical Society
The beautiful 1901 neo-classical Old Territorial Administration Building--a newly designated National Historic Site of Canada-- harbour's the Dawson City Museum, the largest historical collection in the Yukon Territory.