Canadian War Museum

Canadian War Museum

Musée canadien de la guerre
Exterior of the museum in 2022
Established	January 1942 (1942-01)
Location	1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates	45°25′02″N 75°43′02″W
Type	War museum
Director	Caroline Dromaguet (interim)
President	Mark O'Niell
Chairperson	James Fleck
Architect	Moriyama & Teshima Architects & Griffiths Rankin Cook Architects
Owner	Canadian Museum of History Corporation
Public transit access	Pimisi
Website	www.warmuseum.ca
Canadian Museum of History Corporation network
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The Canadian War Museum (French: Musée canadien de la guerre; CWM) is a national museum on the country's military history in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Further reading

• Brandon, Laura (6 June 1995). "A Unique and Important Asset? The Transfer of the War Art Collections from the National Gallery of Canada to the Canadian War Museum". Material History Review. 42: 67–74.
• Brandon, Laura (2021). War Art in Canada: A Critical History. Art Canada Institute. ISBN 9781487102722.
• Brown, Angus (2007). "Oral History at the Canadian War Museum". Canadian Military History. 16 (1): 61–64.
• Celinscak, Mark (2018). "The Holocaust and the Canadian War Museum Controversy". Canadian Jewish Studies. 26: 11–30. doi:10.25071/1916-0925.40063.
• Dean, David (March 2009). "Museums as conflict zones: the Canadian War Museum and Bomber Command". Museum and Society. 7 (1): 1–15. ISSN 1479-8360.
• Hillmer, Norman (2010). "The Canadian War Museum and the Military Identity of an Unmilitary People". Canadian Military History. 19 (3): 19–27.
• Jaeger, Stephan (2020). The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 9783110664416.
• Noakes, Jeff (2015). "The Canadian War Museum and Canadian Military History" (PDF). history.army.mil. United States Army. pp. 1–10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-03. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
• Pothier, Bernard (1988). "Archival Material at the Canadian War Museum". Archivaria. 26: 149–153. ISSN 1923-6409.
• Pulsifer, Cameron (2007). "Colonel Wily's Brainchild: The Origins of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa's Cartier Square Drill Hall, 1880–1896". Canadian Military History. 16 (2): 59–68.
• Shah, Nisha (2017). "Death in the details: Finding dead bodies at the Canadian War Museum". Organization. 24 (4): 549–569. doi:10.1177/1350508417700403. S2CID 149114133.

Other websites

• Official website
• Friends of the Canadian War Museum Archived 2018-11-10 at the Wayback Machine