WHAT’S ON AT THE CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM – PUBLIC PROGRAMS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 2010

WHAT’S ON AT THE
CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM

PUBLIC PROGRAMS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 2010


Events are free with Museum admission unless otherwise indicated.

Guided Tour: Top 5 Architectural Features
May weekends (including May 24) – 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
In celebration of the War Museum’s fifth anniversary, a special guided tour of five of the Museum’s architectural features will be offered every weekend in May. Free with Museum admission.

Family Activity: Dazzling Designs
May weekends (including May 24) – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Create your own camouflage artwork inspired by dazzle painted ships.
In conjunction with Camouflage: The Exhibition. John McCrae Gallery

Family Activity: Friendship
May weekends (including May 24) – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
Learn about the origins of the Canadian Tulip Festival — and Canada’s role in sheltering members of the Dutch Royal Family and liberating the Netherlands in the Second World War. You can also handle a Second World War military kit and make a friendship craft.  There also will be a reading from Anne Renaud’s book, A Bloom of Friendship, which tells the story of the Canadian Tulip Festival (English only).  LeBreton Gallery (except on May 8, when it is held in the Museum Lobby)

Conference: The Canadian Navy and the Commonwealth Experience, 1910-2010: From Empire to Independence
May 5 and 6 – 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Explore new approaches to history in this ground-breaking conference with internationally recognized historians and seasoned naval professionals from Australia, Britain, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. Organized in cooperation with the Canadian Navy in celebration of its Centennial.
For conference details and registration information, visit www.warmuseum.ca/conference-e Barney Danson Theatre

About the Canadian War Museum
The Canadian War Museum is the national museum of military history. It attempts to help all Canadians better understand their country’s military history in its personal, national and international dimensions. The Museum emphasizes the human experience of war to explain the impact of organized human conflict on Canada and Canadians, and how, through war, conflict and peace support operations, Canadians have affected, and have been affected by, the world around them. Special exhibitions and programs also explore non-Canadian and general themes related to the human experience of war and the subject of armed conflict, past and present.

Media Information:

Chief, Media Relations
Canadian War Museum
Telephone: 819 776-7167

Media Relations Officer
Canadian War Museum
Tel.: 819 776-8607

Fax: 819 776-8623