Exhibits

The #hopeandhealingcanada project, created by Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers, consists of a series of site-specific art installations across Canada. Each installation is temporary and meticulously created by Chambers using red yarn that is crochet, knit, and tied. While the yarn symbolically reconnects a fractured society, the red represents blood, passion, anger, courage, and love. This […]

The Canadian Language Museum presents an exhibit about Cree, the most widely spoken Canadian Aboriginal language. With colourful panels presenting a mix of maps, photos, and information on topics including the syllabic writing system, word formation, and animacy, Cree: The People's Language explores the history and future of Cree. There are also audio clips of […]

This exhibition explores the importance of Qaujimajatuqangit — Inuit traditional knowledge  — which made it possible to determine the fate of the Franklin Expedition, which had set out in 1845 to complete a Northwest Passage. For generations, Inuit shared memories of meetings with sick and starving men, as well as visits to an abandoned ship locked […]

The Canadian Language Museum presents the exhibit Speaking the Inuit Way which introduces viewers to the diversity of the Inuit language. This exhibit presents Inuit writing systems, dialect differences, and modern revitalization efforts, and illustrates how the language reflects both historical and contemporary Inuit culture and identity. On display at the Flatiron Building Museum from […]