• Text: Timed Tickets Required! You must get your ticket in advance. Image: A boy standing next to the moose diorama in the Mammal Gallery.
    Welcome back to the Museum! See what's going on and what's different, and don't forget to buy your timed tickets in advance. 
  • Text: Opposites. Virtual Open House. New series! Starts October 16. Image: An illustration of a Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii).
    Go behind-the-scenes to discover fascinating contrasts among our collections. 
  • Text: 8th Annual Nature Inspiration Awards 2021. Leaders by Nature. Image: Detail of a steel sculpture of an iceberg, by Bill Lishman. 
    Find out about the finalists and their extraordinary achievements. 

Welcome back!

The museum is now open from Wednesdays to Sundays. Purchase tickets in advance online.

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Buy Tickets in Advance

Tickets are limited and for a specified entry time, and they must be purchased in advance. Buy tickets.

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Proof of Vaccination

Eating Inside

Proof of vaccination is required for those aged 12 and older for access to the eating area inside the museum.

Proof is not required to visit the rest of the museum. More details.

Text: Owls Rendez-Vous. Image: A Eurasian Eagle-Owl and a Great Horned Owl.

Owls Rendez-Vous

Outdoor Exhibition

Come face-to-face with live owls in this special outdoor exhibition in partnership with Little Ray's Nature Centres.

Text: Opposites. Image: An illustration of a Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii).

Virtual Open House

Opposites in Our Collections

Go behind-the-scenes to discover some amazing contrasts among our specimens.

A full moon against which the silhouette of a crow on a tree branch stands out.

Spooky Scavenger Hunt

At the Museum

Take part in our scavenger hunt and learn more about some of the spooky creatures hiding in our museum!

A staff member with a mineral specimen in the museum lab.

Virtual School Workshops

New!

Connect your classroom online with museum educators! Explore natural history in a fun and interactive way that is also linked to your curriculum.

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News from the Museum

The Canadian Museum of Nature resides on the traditional, unceded territory of the Anishinābe Algonquin people who have stewarded this land for thousands of years.

We acknowledge that the museum's scientific research occurs across Canada—from coast to coast to coast—on the territories of the Métis and First Nations people and in Inuit Nunangat.