Plan Your Visit

Plan Your Visit

Canada Goose Arctic Gallery

New Gallery
Now open!

Explore Canada's mysterious, vulnerable and unique Arctic in the Canada Goose Arctic Gallery.
Northern Voices Gallery

Now open!

Experience Inuinnauyugut: We are Inuinnait the inaugural exhibit of the Northern Voices Gallery.
Focus on the Arctic

Summer at the Museum

A burst of special activities and events! Check out our programme!
Plus-One Memberships

Bring a Guest

Plus-One memberships let you bring a guest every time you visit the museum—and other benefits. Find out more.

Please allow two to three hours for a reasonably complete visit to the museum.

Taxes are not included.

Note that on Friday, June 30, the museum will close at 5 pm.

240 McLeod Street, Ottawa, Ontario
At the corner of McLeod and Metcalfe.

On foot: About 20 minutes (1.4 km) directly south of Parliament Hill.

GPS coordinates: 45° 24.780'N, 75° 41.330'W.

Windows on the natural world:

Find out what awaits you at your natural-science museum!

Dinosaurs, fossils, minerals and more! Discover an exciting selection of souvenirs at the Nature Boutique.

What's On – Highlights

Exhibitions and Galleries
Exhibition – Interactives
Discover mysteries of water and Earth, as well as the creatures that inhabit our planet now and in the past.