Objects are a tangible connection to our past. For our Museums, collecting and preserving objects is at the heart of the Museums' purpose and we depend in part on public donations to do so.

On the Cutting Edge: The Arthur Pascal Collection of Woodworking Hand Tools

1991-2005: Special Exhibitions Mezzanine

On Track: The Railway Mail Service in Canada

1991: Special Exhibitions Hall

Once in French America

2004-2005: Special Exhibitions Gallery C

Open Storage Display

1993-2002: Special Exhibitions Gallery E

Opening the West

1996

Opus: The Making of Musical Instruments in Canada

1992-1995: Arts and Traditions Hall

Ottawa and the National Capital Region

1990-1992

Pack Your Bags! A Kid's Ticket to Travel

2003-2004: Canadian Children's Museum

Panache: The Fashionable Woman of the 19th Century

1993-1994: Special Exhibitions Hall

Paper Prayers

1999-2000 2000-2001: Upper Gallery

Paper Prayers

1999-2000: World ExchangeCanadian Children's Museum

Paper Prayers

1995-1996 1996-1997 1998-1999: Salon Marius-Barbeau

Pattern Wizardry

2003: Canadian Children's Museum

Patterns of Connection

1993: Grand Hall

People of the Jaguar

1995

PETRA: Lost City of Stone

2006-2007: Special Exhibitions Gallery C

Philatelic Stars: Canada's Most Beautiful Stamps

2001-2002 : Canadian Postal Museum

Places of Power: Objects of Veneration

1994-1995

Play it by Ear

2004-2005: Canadian Children's Museum

Pointing at the Wind

1990-1992: Arts and Traditions Hall

Pompeii

2005: Special Exhibitions Gallery C

Portuguese Cartography: Constructing an Image of the World

1991

Postage Stamps: Image of a Country

2005-2006: Canadian Postal Museum

Pottery from Fez and Mekn�s, Morocco 18th and 19th Centuries, Gift of Mr. Olivier de France de Tersa

1995-1996

Presenza: A New Look at Italian-Canadian Heritage

2003-2004: Special Exhibitions Gallery E

Public/Private Gatherings

1991: Indian and Inuit Art Gallery

Quilts

1991: Salon Marius-Barbeau

Rebecca Baird: A Time Within the Memory

1993-1994: Indian and Inuit Art Gallery

Recent Donations: Forsyth and Vaughan Collections

1998-1999: Recent Donations Showcase

Reservation X

1998-1999: First Peoples Hall

Resonance: Musical Heritage of La Francophonie

2001-2003: Special Exhibitions Gallery E

Rise with the Sun: Women in Africa

1997

Ritual Messengers: African Treasures from the Tervuren Museum

1996-1997: Special Exhibitions Hall

Robert Davidson: Eagle of the Dawn

1993-1994: River Gallery

Robert Houle: Indians from A to Z

1991-1992: Indian and Inuit Art Gallery

Rocket Richard: The Legend - The Legacy

2004-2005 : Special Exhibitions Gallery A

Routes: Exploring the British Origins of Newfoundland Outport Furniture Design

1996-1997: Canadian History Galleries

Saidye Bronfman Award 2002

2002-2003: Special Exhibitions Mezzanine

Saidye Bronfman Award 2003

2003-2004: Special Exhibitions Mezzanine

Saidye Bronfman Award 2004

2004-2005: Special Exhibitions Mezzanine

Saidye Bronfman Award 2005: Michael Hosaluk

2005-2006: William E. Taylor Salon

Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Mail Order Catalogue in Canada

2002-2003: Canadian Postal Museum

Secret Riches: Ancient Peru Unearthed

2007-2008: Special Exhibitions Gallery C

Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century

1994: Indian and Inuit Art Gallery

Show and Tell: Growing Up Canadian

2001-2002: Canadian Children's Museum

Showcase exhibits

1997-2000: Mall of the First Peoples Hall

Souvenirs of Canada

1994-2006: Special Exhibitions Mezzanine

Spirit of Siberia

1998: First Peoples Hall

Stampin' the Future

2000-2001: Canadian Postal Museum

Stolen Dreams: Portraits of the World's Working Children

2001: Canadian History Galleries

Story Boxes: The Tony Hyman Collection

2003-2004: Cafeteria Corridor

Storytelling: The Art of Knowledge

1997-1998: First Peoples Hall

Strangers, Partners, Neighbors?

2002: Special Exhibitions Gallery C

Strings, Springs and Finger Things: A New Puppet Collection at the Museum

1996-1998: Arts and Traditions Hall

Symbol of a Profession: A Century of Nurses' Caps

2001-2003: Recent Donation Exhibit Case(Cafeteria Corridor)

The 1992 Metal Arts Guild Award Recipient and Acquisitions

1992-1993: Arts and Traditions Hall

The 1992 Saidye Bronfman Award Recipient

1992-1993: Arts and Traditions Hall

The 3^rd Dimension: A New Way of Seeing in Cyberspace

1997-1999: William E. Taylor Research Gallery

The Amazing Castle

2002: Canadian Children's Museum

The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher

2000-2006: Special Exhibitions Mezzanine

The Art of Alex Janvier: His First Thirty Years (1960-1990)

1994: Indian and Inuit Art Gallery

The Art of Healing

1990-1991: Salon Marius-Barbeau

The Art of Japanese Packaging

1991-1992: Salon Marius-Barbeau

The Art of Memory and Transformation: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Contemporary India

1993-1994: Indian and Inuit Art Gallery

The Bachman Collection

1998

The Big Adventure

1999-2000: Kaleidoscope GalleryCanadian Children's Museum

The Blackfoot Way of Life: Nitsitapiisinni

2004-2005: Special Exhibitions Gallery B

The Canadian Museum of Civilization: Your Country. Your World. Your Museum

William E. Taylor Salon

The Charter. It's Us. It's Ours.

2002: Special Exhibitions Mezzanine

The Countdown to the Millenium

1999: Kaleidoscope GalleryCanadian Children's Museum

The Doukhobors:

1996-1998: Arts and Traditions Hall

The Fast Track: Moving the Mail the Mechanized Way

1996

The Greeks

Special Exhibitions Gallery A

The Heart of Heaven

1995

The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis

1997: Special Exhibitions Hall

The Inuit and Diamond Jenness

1993-1994: Special Exhibitions Hall

The Inuit Way in Canada's Arctic

2003-2006: Special Exhibitions Mezzanine

The Lands within Me: Expressions by Canadian Artists of Arab Origin

2001-2003: Special Exhibitions Gallery D

The Maple Leaf Forever New

1989-1990: Special Exhibitions Hall

The Mysterious Bog People:
Rituals and Sacrifice in Ancient Europe

2002-2003: Special Exhibitions Gallery C

The Painted Furniture of French Canada 1700-1840

1997-1998:The Gallery

The Post Goes Pop

2006-2010: Canadian Postal Museum

The Powwow: An Art History

2002-2003: Special Exhibitions Gallery B

The Queen's Beasts

1992-1993: Grand Hall

The Quilt of Belonging

2005: Special Exhibitions Gallery B

The State of Time - The Millenium Stamps

2000: Canadian Postal Museum

The Turning Point: The Deichmann Pottery, 1935-1963

1991-1992: Arts and Traditions Hall

Think Tank

2003 : Canadian Children's Museum

This Other Eden: Canadian Folk Art Outdoors

1999-2000 :The Gallery

This Splendid Gift : The 1897 Canadian Historical Dinner Service

1997-1998: Canadian History Galleries

Threads of the Land: Clothing Traditions from Three Indigenous Cultures

1995-1997: River Gallery

Timeless Treasures: The Story of Dolls in Canada

2000-2003: Special Exhibitions Mezzanine

Titanic Metallurgy Exhibit

1992-1994

To the Limit: Robert Tait MacKenzie Sculptures

1990-1991

Tombs of Eternity: The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt

2008-2009: Special Exhibitions Gallery A

Toolville

2000: Kaleidoscope GalleryCanadian Children's Museum

Top Secret: Mission Toy

2007: Canadian Children's Museum

Transformation

1996-1997:The Gallery

Treasures from China

2007: Special Exhibitions Gallery C

Treasures of the Tsimshian from the Dundas Collection

2007-2008: Special Exhibitions Gallery E

Tunisia, Where Worlds Converge

1991: Special Exhibitions Hall

Under the Sign of the Cross: Creative Expressions of Christianity in Canada

1999-2001: Arts and Traditions Hall

UNIQUE! 30 Years of Outstanding Crafts

2006-2007: Special Exhibitions Gallery E

Utopia Body Paint

1996: First Peoples Hall

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga

2002: Special Exhibitions Gallery C

Vimy Memorial Sculptures

2001-2004: CMC Main Lobby

W. E. Taylor Exhibition

1994-1997: William E. Taylor Research Gallery

Watching TV

1996-1997: Arts and Traditions Hall

Wathahine - Photographs of Aboriginal Women by Nancy Ackerman

1997-1998: First Peoples Hall

Wave Eaters: Native Watercraft in Canada

1996-1997: First Peoples Hall

What Modern Was - Design 1935-1965

1993: Special Exhibitions Hall

Whirligigs

1994: Special Exhibitions Hall

Windows on the World - The Canadian Postal Museum's International Philatelic Collection

2000- (ongoing): Canadian Postal Museum

Winter Poster Contest

2000: World ExchangeCanadian Children's Museum

Wolastoqiyik: Portrait of a People

2003-2006: Special Exhibitions Mezzanine

Write Like an Egyptian!

1998-2001: Canadian Postal Museum

Your House, My House

2005: Canadian Children's Museum