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ICYMI - Dr. Andrew Burtch on Why Canada Needed a Building Worthy of Its Military History
The Canadian War Museum spent most of its existence in borrowed spaces. Dr. Andrew Burtch says the collection deserved better long before it got it.
Before the 2005 building at LeBreton Flats, the museum occupied a run-down building where the National Gallery now stands, then moved to the old Dominion Archives on Sussex Drive while major artifacts sat in a former streetcar facility. The current building was opened on the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe and designed with Raymond Moriaman Associates around the concept of regeneration, from the grass roof to the…
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