About the Venue
The Canadian War Museum
Educate. Preserve. Remember. This is the mandate of the Canadian War Museum (CWM), Canada’s national museum of military history. Meeting this mandate – by educating present and future generations on Canada’s military heritage, preserving historical artifacts, and encouraging Canadians to reflect on past sacrifices – will help to ensure that the memory and meaning of Canada’s military past will never be forgotten. Located on the southern bank of the Ottawa River, the CWM is one of Canada’s most significant museums. A stunning architectural design, innovative exhibitions, diverse public programmes and leading-edge scholarly content make it one of the world’s most respected museological venues for the study and understanding of armed conflict.
The theme of the Museum’s architectural design, “regeneration”, evokes not only the impact of war on the land, but also nature’s ability to regenerate and to accommodate the physical devastation wrought by human conflict. A low-lying building that merges into the surrounding landscape, the CWM features a gently sloping roof covered with vegetation and copper sheathing, as well as a rooftop Memorial Garden. As it reaches towards the Peace Tower, the Museum sweeps up to a height of 24.5 metres (80 feet), framing Parliament Hill.
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