WHAT’S ON AT THE CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM – PUBLIC PROGRAMS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 2009

WHAT’S ON AT THE
CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM

PUBLIC PROGRAMS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 2009

Events are free with Museum admission unless otherwise indicated.

Family Activity – Tulip Festival
Saturdays and Sundays, May 2 and 3, 9 and 10, 16 and 17 and Monday, May 18 – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Learn about the origins of the Canadian Tulip Festival: Canada’s role in sheltering members of the Dutch Royal Family and in liberating the Netherlands in the Second World War. Handle military equipment, and make a friendship craft. LeBreton Gallery
Family Activity – Witness to History
Sunday, May 3 – 1 to 3 p.m.
To mark Canada’s role in the liberation of the Netherlands during the Second World War, and to celebrate the opening of the Canadian Tulip Festival, the public is invited to “Meet and Greet” a Dutch war bride and a Second World War veteran. LeBreton Gallery

Concert – The Royal 22e Régiment Band
Thursday, May 14 – 6:30 p.m.
Join us at the Canadian War Museum for a special concert of the Royal 22e Régiment band that features a collection of musical styles including classical pieces, military marches and big band tunes. Lebreton Gallery 

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.

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Canadian War Museum
Telephone: 819 776-8608