Canada's national natural history museum fills a castle-like stone building on McLeod Street in Centretown. Permanent galleries show dinosaurs and fossils, minerals, birds, mammals, Arctic life and live bugs, with changing special exhibitions on top. It is a big family destination, open daily in the high season.
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Permanent exhibitions
- Earth Gallery: minerals, gems and the origins of the planet
- Bird Gallery with more than 450 Canadian species
- Canada Goose Arctic Gallery
- Mammal Gallery with Canadian wildlife
- Fossil Gallery with dinosaurs and ancient marine life
- Water Gallery and Pacific Discovery Tank
- Bugs Alive: live insects and arachnids
