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Museums & Art Galleries in Quebec
Newest Review: ... the 1850s stands out from the rows of paper, glass, china and wood. Babies and monsters crowd around soldiers and bears, clergy and shamans. The upper floor of a nineteenth century Masonic Lodge intrudes from Level 3 and Canada Hall, leading to a square terrace and the Souvenirs of Canada exhibition. Plates marking the Montreal Olympics, and electric switch flicked by King Edward VII, plaques, more plates, Victorian Royal Family keepsakes, a gift box never presented to Charles de Gaulle, a linen print celebrating Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, an ashtray made from dried cod, a plumed hat that once sat on the head of a governor general... more |
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Museums & Art Galleries in Quebec: Down All The Days (1980 words)
by michaelhudson - written on 28.12.02 (Very useful, 223 readings)
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The Canadian Museum of Civilization emerges from the banks of the Ottawa River, extending in smooth contours, twisting angles and rippled curves for four floors and 100,000 square metres in front of Gatineau’s shabby smoke stacks, sex shops and office blocks. The symbolic representation of the wind forged, weather eroded, glacial landscape of a country inhabited since the end of the Ice Age mixes ancient rock with animal shapes and the great stone mask of the main entrance. The 3.75 million artefacts within range from maps printed on grains of rice to a collection of totem poles that rise in solemn lines to high ceilings which cut only the sky out of perfect views ...
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