Wherever you may be, dive into the history of this country with travelling exhibitions from the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum. Each year, this well-established program and its expert staff invite museums from across Canada, and around the world, to take their visitors on a journey through time.
Through carefully selected images, interpretive texts, videos and objects, our exhibitions tell the military, cultural, social, political and sports stories that have shaped this country.
Whether you choose an exhibition with artifacts, or one without, the wide array of available exhibitions can be adapted to just about any host institution. Modular and bilingual, our exhibitions generally include a detailed installation manual, a guide for interpretive programming and promotional tools.
Museums Assistance Program
The Exhibition Circulation Fund provides support towards the borrowing fees for travelling exhibitions. Applications are accepted throughout the year.
Our exhibitions
Our programming abounds in discovery, thanks to the outstanding travelling exhibitions offered by the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum.
Exploring the suspension of civil liberties in Canada during the First World War, the Second World War and the 1970 October Crisis, Lost Liberties – The War Measures Act sheds an unpublished and poignant light on the enduring impact of the Act on Canada and its people.
The Ones We Met highlights the importance of traditional Inuit knowledge in determining the fate of the Franklin Expedition. Relive key moments in Canadian history through the exhibition Snapshots of Canada.
Munnings – The War Years explores battlefield realities of the First World War in oil paintings and sketches featuring equestrian scenes, landscapes, and portraits. The Wounded presents black-and-white portraits of 18 Canadian soldiers who served in Afghanistan, sharing stories of loss, recovery, and hope.
No matter where you live, our Museums come to you, helping you get to know more about our shared past.
Offers from the Canadian War Museum
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The Wounded
In 2016, photojournalist Stephen Thorne captured portraits and stories of Canadian veterans and their families.
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Munnings – The War Years
Renowned today as one of England’s finest painters of horses, Sir Alfred Munnings created more than 40 works of art while on assignment with the Canadian War Memorials Fund.
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Enemy Aliens – Internment in Canada, 1914–1920
During the First World War, national security fears and wartime prejudice drove the policy of internment, which lasted until 1920.
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Fighting in Flanders – Gas. Mud. Memory.
This exhibition helps visitors learn more about the experiences of Canadian soldiers in Belgium. It explores life on the battlefield, which was characterized by…
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Portraits – Stories of Black Canadian Military Service
Black Canadians have demonstrated a proud tradition of military service from the American Revolutionary War to the present day.
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Outside the Lines
Outside the Lines brings together works by Canadian women war artists from the 19th century to the present day, examining the influences and experiences that shaped their art.
Offers from the Canadian Museum of History
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Hockey
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Lost Liberties — The War Measures Act
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Kids Celebrate!
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Snapshots of Canada
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