Musée canadien de la nature

Natural history museum Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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What to expect

The Canadian Museum of Nature is a national natural history museum that showcases over 14.6 million specimens of the natural world. The museum features various exhibitions, including the Butterflies in Flight exhibit, where visitors can enter a world of brilliant, live butterflies, and the Fossil Gallery, which takes visitors back in time to explore the dramatic events that led to the extinction of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals. Other exhibitions include the Earth Gallery, Bird Gallery, Canada Goose Arctic Gallery, Bugs Alive, Mammal Gallery, and the Pacific Discovery Tank. The museum also hosts special exhibitions, such as ᓄᓇᑦᑎᓂ ᑕᑯᒥᓇᕐᑐᖁᑎᕗᑦ | Our Land, Our Art and Rewilding. The museum is a great place for families to visit and learn about the natural world

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This family's experience:

Activities: We visited the Canadian Museum of Nature and discovered the natural world through interactive activities

Highlights: The kids enjoyed the vast collections of animals, fossils, and minerals ✨