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- Bytown Museum
- Goulbourn Museum
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Welcome to the Ottawa Museums & Archives Collections! You can search the entire collection at once in the search box above, browse the featured items below, or click on one of the community museum links to browse only that museum's collection.

Ice Skates

Goulbourn Museum

Basket: Armadillo

Cumberland Heritage Village Museum

Print, Lithographic: "View of Locks, Entrance of Rideau Canal -Ottawa City, Canada-

Bytown Museum

McLaughlin Cutter

Osgoode Township Museum

Boot: Caulk, Ottawa River Lumberers

Bytown Museum

Playing Card Decks

Goulbourn Museum

Police Officer with bicycle in front of C. Poulin’s store, 324 Rochester Street, ca/ 1900

Ottawa Archives

First Nation Ceremonial Spoon: William Ogilvie

Gloucester Museum

Victorian Settee

Osgoode Township Museum

Click on one of the following links to view specific collections:

Bytown Museum

The Bytown Museum is located in the heart of downtown Ottawa. It explores the stories of an evolving city and its residents from its early days as Bytown to present day Ottawa.

City of Ottawa Archives

With a mandate to preserve original documents on behalf of past, presesnt, and future generations, the City of Ottawa Archives are caretakers of Ottawa's documentary history.

City of Ottawa Museums

Through historic house, heritage village, and gallery settings, our five museums tell the stories of early community life and some of the founding families who helped build Ottawa.

Goulbourn Museum

Located in Ottawa's west end, Goulbourn Museum shares the story of Ottawa's oldest military settlement and early life in the former Goulbourn Township.

Osgoode Township Museum

The Osgoode Township Museum focuses on agricultural development, rural life, and the people of Osgoode Township from 1826 to the present day.

Muséoparc Vanier Museopark

Muséoparc Vanier Museopark is one of the rare Canadian museums outside of Quebec dedicated to the French-speaking community. It preserves the history of the Vanier District.