Critics who predicted the Canadian Museum of History would focus on the military and the monarchy in its new $30-million History Hall may have to eat their words.
Royalty and armaments were conspicuous by their absence during the Citizen’s exclusive look this week at the Gatineau museum’s 40,000-square-foot future centrepiece, billed as the largest and most ambitious exhibition on Canadian history ever undertaken.
On the other hand, the history of the country’s indigenous peoples will occupy a lot of real estate in the three galleries of the History Hall, the replacement for the museum’s now-demolished Canada Hall.
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Source: Ottawa Citizen
