The document summarizes the Canadian Museum of History located in Gatineau, Quebec. Some key points: - The museum explores Canada's 20,000 years of human history through permanent galleries like the Grand Hall, First Peoples Hall, and Canadian History Hall. - It has over 1.3 million annual visitors and is a major research institution on Canadian culture. - The museum was designed by renowned Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal and features curving forms inspired by the landscape and First Peoples heritage.

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3. Ar. Douglas Cardinal
• Douglas Joseph Cardinal (born 7th March 1934) is a Canadian architect
based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• Famous for flowing architecture marked with smooth curvilinear forms
and influenced by his Aboriginal heritage as well as European
Expressionist Architecture.
• Cardinal is perhaps best known for his designs of the Canadian Museum
of History in Gatineau, Quebec (1989) and the National Museum of the
American Indian in Washington, D.C. (1998).
• Beginning with his work on St. Mary’s, Cardinal was one of the first North
American architects to use computers to assist in the design process.
• His curvilinear designs reflect the landscape around them, so that people
making use of the building can retain a sense of the surrounding land.

4. - Established :- 1963
- Location :- Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
- Type :- Human and cultural history
- Visitors :- 1,300,000
Canadian Museum of History.

5. - The Canadian Museum of History formerly the Canadian Museum of civilization is Canada’s
national museum of human history.
- The museum’s primary purpose is to collect, study, preserve, and present material objects
that illuminate the human history of Canada and the cultural diversity of its people.
- The Museum of History’s permanent galleries explore Canada’s 20,000 years of human
history and a program of special exhibitions expands on Canadian themes and explore
other cultures and civilizations, past and present.
- The Museum is also a major research institution.
- The museum has three permanent exhibition galleries –
a) The Grand Hall
b) The first Peoples hall and
c) The Canadian History Hall
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6. The Grand Hall
- The Grand Hall on the building’s first level is the
museum’s architectural centerpiece.
- It features a wall of windows 112 m wide by 15 m high,
framing a view of Ottawa River and Parliament Hill.
- On the opposite wall is a colour photograph of similar
size.
- Located at the end of the Grand Hall, by the river, is a
19 m diameter dome. On the dome is the 418 m abstract
painting known as Morning Star.

7. First Peoples Hall
- Also on the museum’s first level, this permanent
exhibition narrates the history and accomplishments of
Canada’s Aboriginal peoples from their original habitation
of North America to the present day.
- The Hall is the result of a groundbreaking, intensive
collaboration that occurred between museum curators
and First Peoples representatives during the planning
stages.

8. Canadian History Hall
- The Canadian History Hall is a new signature
permanent gallery dedicated to Canadian history that
encompasses both the third and fourth floors of the
museum, formerly homes to the Canada Hall and the
Canadian Personalities Hall, respectively, inclusive and
engaging than its precursors.
- It opened in July, 2017, in celebration of the 150th
anniversary of Confederation.

9. Main Architectural elements
(exterior)
- The museum complex consists of two wings, the
public and curatorial wings, surrounded by a series of
plazas connected by a grand staircase.
- Naturalized park areas connect the museum and its
plazas to the Ottawa River and nearby Jacques
Cartier Park.

10. The cantelivered levels of the
Curatorial wing represents outcropping
bedrock of the Canadian Shield.

11. The Public Wing containing the
museum’s galleries and other
public spaces, the glazing of
which is intended to be
emblematic of a melting glacier.

12. The entrance of the Public Wing,
evocative of a turtle head, native
symbol of Mother Earth, with the
entrance Plaza along Laurier Avenue.

13. The Grand Staircase between the two
wings, leading to a lower plaza and the
park alongside the Ottawa River.

14. View of the entire complex from the
Ottawa River.