City: Byward Market Area
Top Things to do in Byward Market Area
Top Restaurants in Ottawa
The 5 Best Museums in Byward Market Area, Canada
Canada's capital is a compact, clean, cleverly planned center of culture and politics and a destination for every season. Start downtown at the architecturally stunning National Gallery of Canada, and don't miss the Canadian Museum of Nature and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Rideau Canal offers boating in the summer and turns into the world’s largest skating rink when frozen in the winter. Gatineau Park attracts cyclists and walkers, while Byward Market blends old and new Ottawa.
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1. National Gallery of Canada
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3,055 reviews
The National Gallery of Canada is committed to offering a welcoming and safe place for our visitors, employees and volunteers. To that end, in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we have CLOSED the Gallery and cancelled all events and activities until further notice. Founded in 1880, the National Gallery of Canada (Musee des beaux-arts du Canada) holds in trust a collection of European and Canadian paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photos.
Reviewed By whereverman - Hong Kong, China
A national treasure and my favourite spot in Ottawa. The gallery has a wonderful collection of Canadian and Modern Art. The building itself is a work of art with enormous glass ceilings and sunny courtyards between exhibits.
2. Bank of Canada Museum
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4.5 based on 202 reviews
Enter the heart of the economic system and explore fun, hands-on, interactive exhibits that cover everything from how people’s expectations affect the health of an economy to how inflation targeting works (hint: you get to fly a rocket ship!). The Museum also features artifacts from the National Currency Collection -- the most complete collection of Canadian coins, notes and tokens in the world.
Reviewed By 851vandanak
We visited the museum by chance and were glad that we decided to go there. This place is so interesting and gives a lot of details about commerce and banks in general that we came back wisened! There are numerous displays inside, we saw the largest collection of bank notes of practically all the countries in the world. The tour guide was exceptionally good with her vast knowledge and wit.
3. Ottawa Art Gallery
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4.5 based on 69 reviews
Reviewed By futtock21 - London, United Kingdom
Since I was last in Ottawa four years ago Ottawa Art Gallery in Daly Street has spawned a large cube with an entrance at the end of MacKenzie King Bridge, shortened its name to OAG (GAO in French), spruced itself up, added some welcome new facilities and generally brought itself into the twenty-first century. The John Ruddy cube (painted white not red) houses temporary exhibition spaces on each of its four floors. Today on the ground floor next to the shop paintings by Heidi Conrod called Magic Mirrors; on the first sculptural light installations by Juan Gevers; on the second works by eminent Canadian artists from the Firestone Collection. The biggest innovations, however, are on the lower ground floor where there is a large airy cafe and a children’s play room.
4. Mercury Lounge
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4.0 based on 18 reviews
The Mercury Lounge has been a Mecca for the arts in Canada's capital city of Ottawa, since its inception in November 1996. Its programming purports a musical vision steeped in the traditions of jazz and yet forward in its approach to encompass all its many derivatives.
5. The Astrolabe Gallery
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5.0 based on 5 reviews
