Museums & Galleries

List of Museums in Canada

Explore the rich cultural heritage of Canada through its diverse museums. From art to history, these institutions offer a glimpse into the nation's past and present.

456 itemsUpdated Mar 13, 2026

This list provides an overview of 453 museums and galleries located across Canada, showcasing the country's rich cultural, historical, and artistic heritage. It includes institutions ranging from local heritage museums to specialized cultural centers.

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Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute

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Admiral Digby Museum

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Africville Museum

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Agassiz-Harrison Museum

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Age of Sail Heritage Centre

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Air Defence Museum

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Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park

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Alberni Valley Museum

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Albert County Museum

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Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum

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Alert Bay Public Library and Museum

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Amherstburg Freedom Museum

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Amos Seaman School Museum

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An Drochaid

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Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre

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Anderson Farm Museum

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Annapolis Valley Macdonald Museum

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Anne Murray Centre

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Antigonish Heritage Museum

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Apple Capital Museum

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Aquatarium

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Archibald Museum

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Armand Frappier Museum

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Arnprior and District Museum

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Art Gallery of Guelph

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Art Gallery of Mississauga

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Art Mûr

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Avon River Heritage Society Museum

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BC Archives

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BC Forest Discovery Centre

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Bala's Museum

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Balmoral Grist Mill Museum

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Bangor Sawmill Museum

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Bank of Canada Museum

36

Barney's River Station School Museum

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Barrington Woolen Mill

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Bas-Saint-Laurent Museum

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Bashaw Fire Hall

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Basilian Fathers Museum

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Bass River Heritage Museum

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Bata Shoe Museum

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Battle River Pioneer Museum

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Beaty Biodiversity Museum

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Beaubears Island Interpretive Centre & Museum

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Beaver Harbour Archives and Museum

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Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art

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Biophare

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Birthplace of Hockey Museum

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Black Loyalist Heritage Centre

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Brockville Museum

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Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum

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Burnaby Art Gallery

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CBC Museum

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CFB Esquimalt

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Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre

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Campobello Public Library and Museum

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Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

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Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation

60

Canada's Northern House

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Canadian Bank of Commerce

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Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre

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Canadian Canoe Museum

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Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame

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Canadian Energy Museum

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Canadian Football Hall of Fame

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Canadian Forces Logistics Museum

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Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre

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Canadian Golf Hall of Fame

70

Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre

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Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

72

Canadian National Collection

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Canadian Ski Museum

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Canadian Women in Film Museum

75

Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre

76

Canning Heritage Centre

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Cannington Centennial Museum

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Cape Breton Fossil Centre

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Cape Breton Miners Museum

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Cape George Heritage School Museum

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Carillon Barracks

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Carleton University

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Central New Brunswick Woodsmen's Museum

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Centre d'art de La Sarre

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Centre d'histoire de Montréal

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Centre d'interprétation des mammifères marins

87

Centre du patrimoine

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Chapel Hill Museum

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Chapleau Centennial Museum

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Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum

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Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts

92

Chestico Museum

93

Children's Own Museum

94

Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society

95

Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society

96

Chinese Cultural Centre

97

City of Kamloops Museum and Archives

98

Cité de l'Or

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Clarence-Rockland Museum

100

Clarington Library, Museums and Archives

101

Cloyne Pioneer Museum and Archives

102

Coastal Discovery Centre

103

Cobalt Mining Museum

104

Colby Curtis Museum

105

Colchester Historeum

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Cold Lake Museums

107

Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum

108

Collection d'oeuvres d'art de l'Université de Montréal

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Confederation Centre Art Gallery

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Copper Cliff Museum

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Copperbelt Railway & Mining Museum

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Cosmodome

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Country Heritage Park

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Cumberland County Museum

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Dalnavert

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Daniel Weetaluktuk Museum

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Dare-Dare

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Dartmouth Heritage Museum

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DesBrisay Museum

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Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum

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Dory Shop Museum

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Dundas Museum and Archives

123

Durrell Museum

124

Dä Kų Cultural Centre

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Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre

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Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie

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Edinburgh Square, Caledonia

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Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games

129

Elman W. Campbell Museum

130

Empress of Ireland Museum

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Erchless Estate

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Erland Lee Museum

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Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site

134

Exploramer

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Fanshawe Pioneer Village

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Firefighters' Museum of Nova Scotia

137

Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic

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Flin Flon Museum

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Fort Edmonton Park

140

Fort Gibraltar

141

Fort Matachewan

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Fort Saskatchewan Museum

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Fultz House

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Fundy Geological Museum

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Gallery Stratford

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Gallery X

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Galt Museum & Archives

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George Johnston Museum

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Glace Bay Heritage Museum

150

Glenbow Museum

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Glovertown Museum

152

Goldboro Interpretive Centre

153

Great Hall of the Clans Museum

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Green Gables

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Grey Roots Museum and Archives

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Griffintown Horse Palace

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Hank Snow Home Town Museum

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Hastings Mill

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Hector Heritage Quay

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Heritage Acres

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Heritage Models Museum

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Hockey Heritage North

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Hooked Rug Museum of North America

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Huron-Wendat Museum

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Huronia Museum

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Hôtel-Musée Premières Nations

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ICAO Museum

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Illusuak IlikKusiligijingita SuliaKapvinga / Illusuak Cultural Centre

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Ilnu Museum of Mashteuiatsh

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Institute for Contemporary Culture

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International Hockey Hall of Fame

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Inverness Miners Museum

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Itsanitaq Museum

174

Ivan Franko Museum

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J. Armand Bombardier Museum

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Jack London Cabin

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Jewish Heritage Centre, Winnipeg

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Jewish Museum of Canada

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John Tizya Centre

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Johnson Geo Centre

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Jordan Historical Museum of the Twenty

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Just for Laughs Museum

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Kaatza Station Museum and Archives

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Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center

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Keepers of the Eastern Door, Mohawk Singers and Dancers

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Kelowna Public Archives

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Keno City Mining Museum

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Kinawit

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Kings County Museum

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Knaut-Rhuland House

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Koffler Centre of the Arts

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Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre

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La Cité de l'Énergie

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La Maison Léon-Provancher

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LaHave Islands Marine Museum

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Lacombe Blacksmith Shop Museum

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Lang Pioneer Village Museum

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Laura Secord Homestead

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Laurentian Ski Museum

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Laurentides Museum of Contemporary Art

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Lawrence House

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Le Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum

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LeBer-LeMoyne House

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LeNoir Forge

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Leduc West Antique Society

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Leighton Art Centre

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Lennox & Addington County Museum & Archives

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Lennoxville Ascot Historical and Museum Society

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Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery

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Lillooet Museum

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Little White Schoolhouse Museum

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Lordly House Museum

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Louisburg Railway Station

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Lower Selma Museum

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Lyman Entomological Museum

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MZTV Museum of Television

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MacBride Copperbelt Mining Museum

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MacBride Museum of Yukon History

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MacPhee House

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Mahone Bay Museum

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Maison Lamontagne

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Maison LePailleur - Société du musée du grand Châteauguay

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Maison Luis Bertrand

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Malagash Salt Mine Museum

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Manitoba Antique Automobile Museum

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Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library

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Manitoba Electrical Museum

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Manitoba Museum

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Maple Ridge Museum & Community Archives

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Marconi National Historic Site of Canada

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Margaree Salmon Museum

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Marguerite Bourgeoys Museum

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Markham Museum

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Mattawa Museum

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Maude Abbott Medical Museum

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McCulloch House Museum

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McDougall Mill Museum

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Mennonite Heritage Village

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Michener House Museum and Archives

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Middleton Railway Museum

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Miller Museum of Geology

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Milton Blacksmith Shop Museum

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Miniature World

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Montgomery's Inn

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Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery

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Moose River Gold Mines Museum

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Motherhouse of the Sisters of Providence

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Mulgrave Heritage Centre

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Musee Mineralogique et Minier de Thetford Mines

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Museum and Archives of North Vancouver

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Museum of Anthropology at UBC

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Museum of Antiquities (Saskatchewan)

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Museum of Dufferin

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Museum of Health Care at Kingston

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Museum of Northern British Columbia

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Museum of Surrey

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Museum of Toronto

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Museum of Vancouver

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Museum of Vision Science

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Museum of the Flat Earth

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Muskoka Lakes Museum

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Musquodoboit Harbour Railway Museum

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Musée Beaulne

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Musée Des Hospitalières De L'Hôtel-Dieu De Montréal

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Musée Dufresne-Nincheri

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Musée Laurier

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Musée Louis-Hémon

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Musée Maritime du Québec

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Musée Marius-Barbeau

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Musée Ukraina Museum

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Musée canadien de l'arme et du bronze inc.

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Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul

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Musée d'art de Joliette

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Musée de Charlevoix

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Musée de Kent

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Musée de Rimouski

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Musée de l'Amérique française

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Musée de la Gaspésie

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Musée de la civilisation

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Musée de la place Royale

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Musée de société des Deux-Rives

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Musée des Ursulines

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Musée des Ursulines de Trois-Rivières

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Musée des arts décoratifs de Montréal

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Musée des cultures fondatrices

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Musée des métiers d'art du Québec

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Musée des ondes Emile Berliner

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Musée du Fjord

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Musée du fromage cheddar

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Musée d’art naïf de Magog

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Musée historique du Madawaska

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Musée naval de Québec

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N.W.T. Mining Heritage Society

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Nanaimo Art Gallery

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Nanaimo Museum

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National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada

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National Museum of Canada

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National Museum of Photography

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National Museums of Canada Corporation

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National Music Centre

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Nattilik Heritage Centre

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Nelles Manor Museum

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Neon Sign Museum

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New Brunswick Museum

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New Westminster Museum and Archives

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Niagara Falls Museum

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Nicola Valley Museum and Archives

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Nicolas Denys Museum

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Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre

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Nisga'a and Haida Crest Poles of the Royal Ontario Museum

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North Bay Museum

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North Highlands Community Museum

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Northern Life Museum

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Northern Ontario Railroad Museum

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Northumberland Fisheries Museum

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Nova Scotia Highlanders Regimental Museum

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Nova Scotia Museum of Industry

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Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum

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Old Barrington Meeting House

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Old Chicoutimi Pulp Mill

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Old Coleman High School

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Old Guysborough Court House Museum

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Old Log Church Museum

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Oshawa Community Museum

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Ottawa House

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Paris Museum and Historical Society

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Parkdale-Maplewood Museum

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Parksville Museum

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Parliament Interpretive Centre

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Paul's Hall

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Peggy of the Cove

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Perkins House

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Peterborough Museum & Archives

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Pictou Lighthouse Museum

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Pier 21

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Pioneer Acres Museum

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Plains of Abraham Museum

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Prescott House Museum

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Prince Albert Historical Museum

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Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre

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Princeton & District Museum and Archives

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Qualicum Beach Museum

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Quartier Éphémère

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Quebec Aerospace Museum

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Queens County Museum

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R. Tait McKenzie Museum

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RCMP Heritage Centre

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ROM Bat Cave

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Remington Carriage Museum

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Rex Theatre

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Reynolds Museum

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Ringette Canada Hall of Fame

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River John Heritage Museum

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Robert B. Ferguson Museum of Mineralogy

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Rocky Mountain House Museum

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Roedde House Museum

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Rosamond Mill #1 Office and Warehouse

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Ross Farm Museum

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Royal Alberta Museum

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Royal British Columbia Museum

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Royal Museum of the 22nd Regiment

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Saanich Pioneer Museum

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Saint John Jewish Historical Museum

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Saint Joseph's Oratory

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Salmon Arm Museum

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Sam Waller Museum

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Sault Ste. Marie Museum

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Seagram Museum

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Serbian Heritage Museum

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Settlers, Rails & Trails

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Seven Oaks House Museum

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Shag Harbour UFO Centre

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Shelburne's Museums by the Sea

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Sherbrooke History Museum

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Shubenacadie Tinsmith Museum

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Sidney Museum and Archives

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Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père

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Smith's Cove Old Temperance Hall Museum

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Sombra Museum

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Sooke Region Museum

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Southern Alberta Art Gallery

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Spruce Grove Grain Elevator Museum

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St. Albert Grain Elevator Park

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St. Vital Historical Society

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St. Volodymyr Museum

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Steele Wheels Motor Museum

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Steveston Museum

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Steveston Tram Museum

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Stewart Historical Museum

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Stewart museum

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Stewiacke Valley Museum

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Storyeum

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Sturgeon River House Museum

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Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum

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Sutherland Steam Mill Museum

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Swift Current-Battleford Trail

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Sydney Mines Heritage Museum

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Sydney Museum

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T.rex Discovery Centre

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Taras Shevchenko museum in Toronto

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Tems swiya Museum

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Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre

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Textile Museum of Canada

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The Black Arts Centre

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The Canadian Piano Museum

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The Canadian Potato Museum

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The Evolution of Education Museum

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The Hermitage

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The Historical Museum of St. James – Assiniboia

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The Muse - Lake of the Woods Museum & Douglas Family Art Centre

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Mont-Saint-Hilaire

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The Polygon Gallery

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The Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker Centre for the Study of Canada

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The Rooms

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Toronto Maritime Museum

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Toronto Railway Museum

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Torrington Gopher Hole Museum

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Transcona Museum

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Transit Museum Society

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Trinity Square Video

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Tupperville School Museum

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Twillingate Museum

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U'mista Cultural Centre

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Ukrainian Canadian Archives & Museum Of Alberta

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Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre

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Uniacke Estate Museum Park

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Usine de filtration de la Canadian International Paper

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Valentin Gallery

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Virtual Museum of Canada

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Virtual Spanish Civil War

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W. Laurence Sweeney Fisheries Museum

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Waba Cottage Museum and Gardens

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Wallace and Area Museum

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Wallaceburg and District Museum

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Wedgeport Sport Tuna Fishing Museum

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Welland Museum

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Western Front Society

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Westfield Heritage Centre

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Wetaskiwin and District Heritage Museum

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Whale Interpretive Centre

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Wheelhouse Maritime Museum

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Whitchurch-Stouffville Museum and Community Centre

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White Rock Museum and Archives

445

Whitney Pier Historical Society Museum

446

Whyte Museum

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Wile Carding Mill

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Windermere Valley Museum

449

Women's Museum

450

Woodland Cultural Centre

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Yarmouth County Museum & Archives

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Yellowknife Historical Society

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York Sunbury Museum

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Royal Ontario Museum

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Canadian Museum of History

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Art Gallery of Ontario

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Vancouver Art Gallery

458

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

This list is compiled from verified public records and reference sources. Last verified: March 13, 2026.

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