Explore all things ‘pop’ culture at the museum this Father’s Day! The 1920s and 1930s saw more and more popular culture products hit the market for mass consumption. Widely accessible mass communication technologies like radio and movies meant popular culture became an influential part of people’s daily lives. Learn to dance the Charleston and the […]
Join us for some family fun this Father’s Day! Do you have what it takes to survive the ‘Ottawa Trail’?. Take up the challenge, gather your provisions, and navigate scenarios that will recreate some of the historical challenges and turns of fortune faced by early settlers like Hamnett Pinhey as they made their new homes […]
On Father's Day, we’re offering exclusive Machine Room tours 4 storeys underground. The machine room is not usually open to the public so this is your chance to show Dad a really amazing piece of Canadian history. Machine Room tours will start at 10:30am and 1:30pm. Space is limited, please call the museum to reserve […]
Free admission for all dad's this Father's Day at the Bytown Museum!
Beaverbrook represents one of the first and the most complete examples in Canada of a fully designed community based on 20th-century urban planning concepts. This tour will introduce participants to various aspects of the planned garden community of Beaverbrook (intended to be part of the whole garden City of Kanata). GUIDE: Neil Thomson is President […]