Gatineau Museums

Diefenbunker is Canada's Cold War museum at the site of an old secret nuclear bunker. The museum is focused on Cold War education through tours of the bunker. See the Prime Minister's suite, blast tunnel, machine room and much more. Interesting and somewhat eerie, visitors can wander the corridors of the acutal bunker and visit museum displays and exhibits. Reservations are recommended for tours.

Experience the expressive potential of Quebec's artists.

Opened in 1974, the Canadian Postal Museum houses a vast collection related to all things mail. Visitors can check out these artifacts as well a number of exhibits and public programs. The museum is located at the same place as the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

This museum illustrates Canada's history from prehistoric times, through the original Canadians, early settlers and explorers, to the fur traders, and mass immigration to modern times. Life sized reconstructions of all these stages in history fill the museum.

This large farm is not only a research base for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, but it is also a tourist attraction featuring: the Canada Agriculture Museum, which features a working dairy, small animal, cattle and rare breeds barns; the Arboretum, with a vast and massive collection of established trees and shrubs that sprawl across the grounds; Ornamental Gardens, which first opened in the 1880s, and encompasses a variety of smaller themed gardens; and many heritage buildings dating back to the 1880s. The Arboretum and Ornamental Gardens are open to the public daily, free of charge.

The Auberge Symmes Museum (Musee de l'Auberge Symmes) is located on the banks of Lake Deschenes and preserves and displays local history. Visitors can see exhibits and artifacts relating to the area’s first explorers and settlers, and find information on important industries.

The Gatineau location of the Quebec National Archives (Archives nationales du Quebec, Centre de l'Outaouais) houses a range of documents and artifacts relating to the history and heritage of the Outaouais region.

Located at the same place as the Quebec National Archives, the Outaouais Regional Archive Centre (Centre regional d'archives de l'Outaouais) acquires, treats, safeguards and archives a variety of private records from around the region.

This collection includes information on and artifacts relating to the history of Canadian architecture and Canadian-built heritage. Visitors will find photographs, reports and thousands of computerized building exteriors, an architect and builder index and more.

The Hull Ecomuseum aims to teach the public about and raise awareness about ecological issues. Visitors can learn about the origin of the solar system and its evolution as well as about the chemistry of the atmosphere, the physics of soil and much more.