About the Museum
Tours & Programs
Self-Guided Tours
 Our new galleries are easy to follow and take you through a series of multi-sensory exhibits. Let your curiosity guide you as you explore how the canoe evolved from a survival craft to a favourite recreational pastime. Discover the people who connect us to Canada's powerful canoeing legacy, including Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Bill Mason and Victoria Jason. Along the way, you'll meet our artisans keeping traditional skills alive, such as paddle carving, snowshoe making and finger weaving.
Visitors should allow themselves one to two hours to complete a self-guided tour.
Guided Group Tours
Our knowledgeable guides bring history to life through stories and hands-on activities as they lead your group through the exhibits. The Museum welcomes groups of any size and can customize tours to suit your needs. Group rates are available, please contact the booking coordinator for details. Don't forget to allow enough time for your group to visit the Museum's unique gift shop. The following services and amenities are available to make your tour perfectly enjoyable:
- Free and ample parking for coaches
- Group leaders and bus drivers receive complimentary admission
- Wheelchair accessible
- French and English tours
- Arrival reception with coffee/tea and snacks
- Multi-purpose room available for catered meals
- Vouchers accepted if pre-approved
Guided tours can take 30 to 90 minutes.
Please Touch!
Children especially will love the many touch stations and interactive environments of the Museum's exhibits. The Museum invites visitors to explore a recreated voyageur encampment, hear stories inside a traditional Mi'kmaq wigwam, and walk through an original 1876 Hudson's Bay Trading Post.
Preserving Traditional Skills Gallery
Museum Artisan Jeremy Ward
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In the Preserving Skills Gallery, Museum artisan Jeremy Ward explains how canoes are built using rolls of birch bark, spruce root and cedar planking.
This "living exhibit" is also the venue for the Museum's Visiting Artisans Program, where heritage skills across Canada are kept alive through demonstrations and courses.
Education Programs
Using an experiential approach, the Museum invites students of all ages to discover how the canoe connects people, the land and our history. Surrounded by multi-sensory exhibits, students will learn how ancient Aboriginal trade routes laid the foundation for European fur traders and how a 26-foot North Canoe would be outfitted in preparation for a journey back to Montreal.
For more information about the Museum's educational programs, see our Education section.
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