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<\/a><\/p>\nPhoto: Canadian Museum of History on Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n 1)\u00a0Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>Attracting well over a million visitors a year, the Canadian Museum of History\u00a0is Canada\u2019s most-visited museum and offers a winning tri-fecta of striking architecture, stunning setting and a\u00a0comprehensive exhibit of Canadian history. Situated on the Ottawa River directly across from Parliament Hill in Gatineau, the museum is considered one of Canada\u2019s architectural masterpieces and features the Grand Hall, a panoramic wall of windows, which outwardly faces today\u2019s seat of government while inside exhibiting an arresting collection of huge totem poles and First Nations artifacts. Beyond the Grand Hall, visitors can stroll through \u201cstreetscape\u201d galleries representing thousands of years of Canadian human history or see the past brought back to life through re-enactments and improvisations by a resident theatre company. And if that isn\u2019t enough, the museum is also home to the Canadian Children\u2019s and Postal Museums and an\u00a0IMAX theatre.<\/p>\n Photo: Mus<\/em>\u00e9<\/em>e des Beaux-Arts de Montr\u00e9al on Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n 2)\u00a0Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,<\/strong> Montreal<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>What was Canada\u2019s first art museum remains among its finest and today the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts draws visitors from across Canada and around the world for its collections of both classic and contemporary pieces. Located in Montreal, the museum is\u00a0home to an impressive collection of decorative arts and boasts an incredibly diverse collection of fine artifacts, from some of the finest paintings in the country and to permanent and temporary exhibits of European Impressionists and Canadian luminaries such as the Group of Seven and Inuit and First Nations artists. The museum\u00a0is housed in two sections connected by an underground tunnel\u2014the older 1912 home of the museum, a sober and imposing work of white marble and neoclassical architecture and across the street the new, striking glass-fronted pavilion designed by internationally renowned architect Moshe Safdie.<\/p>\n Photo: Royal Ontario Museum on Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n 3)\u00a0Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto<\/strong>:\u00a0Considered by many to be Canada\u2019s best museum, the\u00a0Royal Ontario Museum is also its largest and no trip to\u00a0Toronto is complete without a visit to this museum of natural history and culture. The museum is notable for its bold glass-panelled architecture designed by Daniel Libeskind towering the streets of Toronto. Aside from its architectural feat, the museum\u2019s collection of over six million items range from a renowned collection of dinosaurs to Yaun Dynasty paintings in its East Asian collections to galleries of ancient Egyptian and Bronze Age art. For children who can\u2019t resist the urge to touch, the museum offers several hands-on galleries, among them a dinosaur dig for young palaeontologists and an interactive high-tech gallery.<\/p>\n Photo: agotoronto on Instagram<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n 4)\u00a0Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto<\/strong>:\u00a0Founded in 1900 and also located in Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario is the eighth largest art museum in North America and includes more than 65,000 works of art, almost half of which are by Canadian artists. Its collections, spanning from 100 AD to present day, include European masters such as Picasso, van Gogh and Cezanne and Canadian notables like Emily Carr, David Milne and the Group of Seven. The museum also houses contemporary galleries and the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre, the world\u2019s largest public collection of the internationally renowned British sculptor by the same name.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n