Canadian Heritage committee  We totally have the independence. We have a curatorial team of about 15 researchers working on the new hall. We're currently working on the storyline. We are going to start the storyline at 15,000 years ago and then go all the way up to today. It's a long storyline. With the re

Canadian Heritage committee  Currently we're building a network of Canadian museums. We're reaching out to museums across the country and developing a memorandum of understanding with them for privileged access to our collection. It's going to be a vice versa thing too. They will be able to present exhibitio

Canadian Heritage committee  We're currently working on the program that is in line with the road to 2017, so we're developing a series of artifacts on Canadian history for the road to 2017. Exhibitions like those we're having on 1867 and the Empress of Ireland match exactly within that. At the War Museum th

Canadian Heritage committee  Right now, the planning for the exhibition program is not complete, but I think the next one is going to be an exhibition on the St. Lawrence River. I'm not sure if I'm answering your question perfectly. Right now we are in the planning, so some exhibitions are determined, signed

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the next one would be on Champlain. We have a small display on Champlain. Are there any others? The royal proclamation...?

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a difficult question to answer because of the 3.5 million artifacts that we have, the vast majority of them are archeological samples. So I would say we have half a million objects of different natures. So if you look at percentages, it would be a very low percentage for tha

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. The Canadian Museum of Civilization—soon to become the Canadian Museum of History—is, with our sister institution, the Canadian War Museum, the country's national repository of historical knowledge. Last October the government announced a new name and mandate for the