museums

The Canadian War Museum invites all Canadians from across the country and around the world to participate in one of the most moving Remembrance Day ceremonies in Canada. On November 11 at exactly 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, sunlight shines through a single window in the War Museum’s Memorial Hall to illuminate the headstone of Canada’s Unknown Soldier. ...

** ** [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lolProfile.jpg) Every week we publish a link to the Lunch Out Loud podcast, a weekly show produced by Nick Bachusky and co-hosted by Andrew Miller. This week: We meet up with Robin, Megan and Grant from the Bytown Museum in Ottawa. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lolProfile.jpg) Every week we publish a link to the Lunch Out Loud podcast, a weekly show produced by Nick Bachusky and co-hosted by Andrew Miller. This week we meet up with John Swettenham, the VP of Experience and Engagement at the Museum of Nature. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/afd598349d36b904e23af03d766ee48c_large.jpg) This print is yours if you donate $200 or more to [ Christophe Ledent's Kickstarter project ](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/423683515/photo-book-ottawa-seen-365-ways-in-365-days) to raise money for an Ottawa photo book. Sometimes you just have so many items on your “to blog about” list that you just have to round them all up and publish them all at once. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/October-2013-Misc.jpg) A few of the artifacts on display. Clockwise from top right: 45 single of "Give Peace a Chance", a tiny "Stop Star Wars" pin, a small knit peacekeeper, an education kit sent to Afghanistan, and the original Greenpeace flag. ...

I took some photos at the Star Wars: Identities exhibit at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum last week. The exhibit takes up part of one of the museum’s air craft hangers, and it’s full of original props, costumes, models and production art from the movies. ...

Maman, wearing socks, in front of the National Gallery. They were doing some kind of maintenance work on the ground and (I think) the white coverings are to protect the sculpture. Photo by Glen Gower , from the OttawaStart Flickr Group . ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/what-ottawa-was-obsessed-wi.jpg) ** Previously: ** What Ottawa was obsessed with in 2011 ** ** ** See also: ** Ottawa Media Guide If you liked this post, you should ** subscribe to etcetera , ** our free email newsletter. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/maya.jpg) One of the artifcats on display at _ [ MAYA: Secrets of their Ancient World ](http://www.civilization.ca/maya/) _ at the Museum of Civilization. While everybody’s distracted by the sex exhibit at the Museum of Science and Tech , several other museums have some great exhibits and events happening: ...

Great photo by Andre Faubert (used by permission). Although I can’t recall when the Ottawa sky caught on fire, I think I would have remembered weather like that. [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/5668907695_1c8ae3d239_b.jpg) ** See also: ** Ottawa Museum Guide