Spread across four floors and nearly 300,000 square feet, the Canadian Museum of History (formerly the Canadian Museum of Civilization) is a behemoth. Welcoming more than 1.2 million people ...

My wife was in Ottawa for a conference for several days last week and we decided that with our kids at the ages of 8, 8 and 11, now was a pretty good time for them to visit Canada’s capital city.

OTTAWA, ON: OCTOBER 25, 2012 : John Willis, curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, with the fog bell recovered from the wreck of the "Empress of Ireland".

The Canadian Museum of Civilization is both a visual wonder and a cultural wonder. Visually it stands out from any building in the Ottawa landscape. The unique sinewed design curves along the ...

The Museum of Civilization moved from Ottawa in 1989 to a new flowing building in Gatineau designed by architect Douglas Cardinal. It was previously called The National Museum of Man.

The Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Que., will be re-branded into a museum on purely Canadian history, the federal government will announce Tuesday.

Historians are excited by the potential of the new institution, which will replace the Museum of Civilization that was created in 1986 and moved three years later from Ottawa to Gatineau, Que.

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has ushered in the end of civilization — at least when it comes to the name of Canada’s largest museum. The old Museum of Civilization, ...