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Travelling exhibitions

Home For professionals Travelling exhibitions

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.

Travelling exhibitions

Download our brochure for information on available and upcoming travelling exhibitions.

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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the First World War, the Second World War and the 1970 October Crisis, Lost Liberties – The War Measures Act sheds an unpublished and poignant light on the enduring impact of the Act on Canada and its people.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 Museum of History

A hockey player is holding a hockey stick up in the air at the Canadian Museum of History.

Travelling exhibition

Hockey

The sweat-soaked smell of the locker room. The flick of the wrist-shot. The scream of the enthusiastic fans.
A group of men standing in front of the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa.

Travelling exhibition

Lost Liberties — The War Measures Act

Exploring the suspension of civil liberties in Canada during the First World War, the Second World War…
Three children are holding Hanukkah menorahs at the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa.

Travelling exhibition

Kids Celebrate!

This lively exhibition helps children discover the importance and diversity of celebrations in Canada.
A group of people riding in an older car

Travelling exhibition

Snapshots of Canada

Paul Henderson scores the winning goal in the 1972 Summit Series. A little boy runs after his father marching off to war.
A drawing of a man looking at a ship.

Travelling exhibition

The Ones We Met – Inuit Traditional Knowledge and the Franklin Expedition

This exhibition explores the importance of Qaujimajatuqangit — Inuit traditional knowledge…

Offers from the Canadian War Museum

A black and white photo of a shirtless man with tattoos.

Travelling exhibition

The Wounded

In 2016, photojournalist Stephen Thorne captured portraits and stories of Canadian veterans and their families.
A painting of men on horses displayed at the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa.

Travelling exhibition

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.
A group of men standing in front of a barbed wire fence at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

Travelling exhibition

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.

Travelling exhibition

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...
A group of people posing for a photo

Travelling exhibition

Communities at War

Black Canadians have demonstrated a proud tradition of military service from the American Revolutionary War to the present day.
Illustration of women pilots working on WWI airplane

Travelling exhibition

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.

Need more information?

travelling@historymuseum.ca