Housed in a deceiving small building, the Beaty Biodiversity Museum is home to a large cavernous underground exhibition area – in part to prevent direct sunlight from its collections and in part to allow for more open space on ground level. Its flagship exhibit is of course the huge blue Read more
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec translates to the Quebec national museum of fine arts. It’s located in Battlefield Park in Quebec City where the battle of the Plains of Abraham took place in 1759. One of its four buildings is a former prison, and some of its cells Read more
Sudbury is known to be the world’s largest producer of nickel in the 20th century, producing over 90% of the world’s nickel supply for stainless steel. Other metals such as palladium, copper, and gold are also found in its igneous rock. Dynamic Earth, sponsored by mining companies in the region, Read more
Located inside a military base in Kingston, the museum starts from the very beginning with flag signals and ends at modern electronic communications. There are recreations of Telegraph offices and radio rooms from the last century showing how the equipment was laid out at the time. Despite being in existence Read more
Famous, not as big as you’d imagine them to be, but still quite large for something constructed before the onset of the Second World War. Originally, it was meant to include the presidents’ torsos as well as their faces, but the death of a sculptor and the beginning of an Read more
Arthabaska has been amalgamated with Victoriaville, but it was inhabited as early as 1830 while Victoriaville was only named after Queen Victoria in 1861. More famously, Arthabaska is known to be the summer home of Sir Wilfred Laurier, the first Prime Minister of Canada who spoke French as a first Read more
Jean Chrétien was Prime Minister of Canada for a decade between 1993 and 2003. He was born and raised in Shawinigan, Quebec, where a museum is dedicated to his role in integrating Canada with the wider world. Although fire department maps name the gallery space as a “temporary exhibition” space Read more
La Cité d’Énergie is the main tourist attraction in the otherwise sleepy post-industrial Shawinigan. It’s one way the town is trying to reinvent itself as its population is declining for better opportunities in larger cities. The science centre is easily distinguishable by its 115-metre-tall pylon that has been converted into Read more
The Saint-Maurice River flows from the Laurentians to meet up with the St. Lawrence at Trois-Rivières. The flow of water rushing down 444 metres from the mountains has powered Canada’s oldest industrial community between 1730 and 1883. The Forges du Saint-Maurice produced iron cannonballs, stoves, and agricultural tools for the Read more
One of several NS-Dokumentationszentrum dotted all over Germany with other notable ones in Nürnberg and Munich, it displays the history of the Third Reich and Germany’s dark Nazi past in Köln. The EL DE Haus itself was a former Gestapo headquarter with torture chambers and prison cells in the basement Read more