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A Day in the Life of a Trappist Monk
The monks of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Prairies have welcomed artists from the St. Norbert Arts Centre into their archival history. Here we have found a story of peace, a community of love and devotion, an ancient way of life guided by the principles of simplicity, self-sufficiency and prayer. Join us as we discover a spiritual journey through the humble daily life of a 21st Century monk.
Creator(s):St. Norbert Arts Centre
This exhibit is also available in: French 

A Journey to a New Land:En Route Vers un Nouveau Territoire
How did people come to the Americas during the ice age? This multi level interactive site presents two hypotheses. Stunning graphics make the ice age come alive. View video of leading scientists presenting new and historical research. Play engaging educational games.
Creator(s):Dr Barbara J. Winter
This exhibit is also available in: French 

A Scholar's Garden
Explore the cultural complexity and elegance embodied by a Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese garden. The only Chinese garden created in the last century, this 'Yi Yuan' or 'Garden of Ease' is characteristic of the private spaces within a Ming scholar's residence. The Scholar's Garden web site will walk you through the philosophical principles and concepts that went into creating this full-scale Chinese garden.
This exhibit uses the following plug-ins:Flash and QuickTime
Creator(s):Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Acadia - Lifestyles in the days of our ancestors
Acadian history in the Maritime Provinces of Canada dates back to the 17th century. Acadian history is rich with culture, and here you can learn about their lifestyles, architecture, food, and their daily life with educational games and a tour of the Acadian communities. The Acadian Historical Village invites you to learn about their culture, history, and explore the many facets of their lives
This exhibit uses the following plug-ins:Flash MX
Creator(s):Village Historique Acadien
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Agriculture in French Manitoba
Explore the history of Manitoba Agriculture and the role First Nations played during the early colonization of French Manitoba. Learn about early Manitoba Farms and the impact glaciation had throughout the Red River Valley. Discover how Manitoba Agriculture quickly took the role of providing products on a national and international level in the late 1800’s. You can even try your hand at a 3D Farming game!
This exhibit uses the following plug-ins:Macromedia Flash
Creator(s):Le Musée de Saint-Boniface
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries
The figure of Jesus has influenced many key developments in art, science, politics, ideas and culture. Explore how artists have portrayed the man and his teachings over the past two millennia.
Executive producer:Canadian Heritage Information Network
Creator(s):Provincial Museum of Alberta
Contributor(s):Art Gallery of Ontario; Musée de la civilisation; Gandhi Memorial Museum
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Back to Batoche
This is an interactive tour on the colourful history and culture of the past and present Batoche. The website includes video interviews with elders, video and photo highlights from the annual Back to Batoche Festivals, Métis music, games, quizzes, photo albums, virtual tours, hundreds of pages of text to learn from, as well as a series of interactive personalized tour guides.
Creator(s):Gabriel Dumont Institute
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Beauty in the Beast | The Mill at Britannia Mine
On the west coast of British Columbia, Canada, the Mill at Britannia Mines remains an icon of a once great copper mine, which was among the largest in the world. Come explore this immense industrial building, one of the last of its kind in North America, and discover the Beauty in the Beast.
Creator(s):Kirstin Clausen; David Alexander
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Before E-commerce
The history of the mail-order business in Canada is portrayed through vintage catalogues, samples of commercial products, and historic photographs.
Creator(s):Canadian Museum of Civilization; Library and Archives Canada; Toronto Culture
Contributor(s):Carol Anderson; Christina Bates; Emmanuel Béland; Gaëtanne Blais; Neil Brochu; Nicole Cloutier; Catherine C. Cole; Jennifer Cook-Bobrovitz; Louise Duguay; Bianca Gendreau; Les Henry; Elisabeth Joy; Shirley Lavertu; Charles Long; Sylvie Marier; Eileen O'Connor; Lorraine O'Donnell; Hélène Plourde; Paul Robertson; Scott Robson; Marguerite Sauriol; Alan Stewart; Evelyn Strahlendorf; Tamara Tarasoff; John Willis
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Bone Snow Knives and Tin Oil Lamps
The first nations and peoples of what is now Canada have created ingenious pieces of art, tools and clothing from time immemorial. Discover the quality and craftsmanship of traditional first nations tools and objects in this virtual museum exhibit. The Bone Snow Knives and Tin Oil Lamps Exhibit draws from the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and the Museum of Civilization in Hull Quebec. Examine works from pre-European contact and see how trade and European materials transformed traditional work from aboriginal first nations across the land now known as Canada
Executive producer:Canadian Heritage Information Network
Creator(s):Musée de la civilisation; Royal Ontario Museum
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Canada In Space
Did you know that the International Space Station is the size of 3 hockey rinks? Canada’s contribution to space is celebrated in this interactive web site equipped with a myriad of interesting facts and biographies of famous Canadian astronauts. Explore the International Space Station from top to bottom including a comprehensive timeline of Canada’s contribution to the space program from 1839 to present
This exhibit uses the following plug-ins:Flash
Creator(s):H.R. MacMillan Space Centre; Peter Newbury, Ph.D .; Pauline Landry; 7th Floor Media
Contributor(s):Canadian Space Agency (CSA); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Canada under the stars
Internet site about the history of canadian astronomy. Canada under the Stars” virtual exhibit highlights aspects of the legacy left to us by the impassioned stargazers of our country. It is thanks to this legacy that modern Canadian astronomers have garnered a world-class reputation in the field of astronomy.
Creator(s):ASTROLab du Mont-Mégantic
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Canada's symbolic animals
Moose Jaw, Trout Lake, the Coyotes hockey team... people chose animals to represent their surroundings and values. This exhibition contains information about 150 different animal species, five games and an interactive data bank. Are you curious - like a cat?
Creator(s):Musée de la nature et des sciences; New Brunswick Museum; University of Alberta Museums
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Champlain: Travels in the Canadian Francophonie
Samuel de Champlain established the first permanent French colonies in Canada. Follow the travels, explorations and adventures of Samuel de Champlain in this exhibit celebrating the 400th anniversary of Champlain's settlement. Using historical documents, images and texts, the multi-media exhibit illustrates the historical, geographic, symbolic and playful aspects of life in New France. Discover the earliest part of European history in North America, trade and friendship with local native nations, the beginning of the fur trade and the establishment of New France.
This exhibit uses the following plug-ins:Flash
Creator(s):Regroupement des organismes du patrimoine frano-ontarien
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Chilling Out
This is an exhibit of historic artifacts from the early development of household refrigeration technology in Canada. It is the story of how a new technology, the household refrigerator, changed the way we live, forever.
Creator(s):HVACR Heritage Centre Canada
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Christmas Traditions in France and in Canada
Christmas traditions in Canada and France are features of this virtual exhibit. The legacy of New France lives on in the Christmas traditions practiced in Canada. Drawing from the materials dating to the Middle Ages, the Christmas Traditions in France and Canada exhibit shows how the living cultural tradition inherits and borrows from the different cultures it encounters and demonstrates the French legacy remains vivid in the Canadian tradition in Quebec as well as in English Canada.
Executive producer:Canadian Heritage Information Network
Creator(s):Musée de la civilisation; Provincial Museum of Alberta; Musée national des arts et traditions populaires
Contributor(s):Mission de la recherche et de la technologie; Département de l'organisation des systèmes d'information
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Cloth & Clay: Communicating Culture
The textiles and ceramics of ancient Mesoamerica are featured in the Cloth and Clay, Communicating Cultures Exhibit. Drawing from the collections of the Textile Museum of Canada and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, this exhibit organizes Mesoamerican textiles by geography and then by culture so that you can easily access images of our objects and retrieve general information about the different culture groups represented by the combined collections of the two museums
Creator(s):Textile Museum of Canada; Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Cosmic Quest: Discovering Astronomy Through Science and Culture
Indigenous astronomy and science from the First Nations of Canada and the Aboriginal Nations of Australia are the explored in this virtual museum exhibit. Featuring ancient indigenous stories from the blackfoot, anishinabe and Australian aboriginal peoples, the Cosmic Quest web site helps students learn and discover astronomy through science and culture.
This exhibit uses the following plug-ins:Flash; Shockwave; Windows Media player; QuickTime
Executive producer:Canadian Heritage Information Network
Creator(s):Australian Museums & Galleries Online, Australia; Centre of the Universe; Gemini Observatory, Hawaii; Glenbow Museum; The Manitoba Museum; National Research Council Canada; Planétarium de Montréal
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Echoes from the Past
Embark on a fascinating journey through Quebec's prehistory as told by some of the richest landscapes that have become major archaeological sites. Almost ten millenia of First People's daily lives are revealed by the science of archaeology!
This exhibit uses the following plug-ins:Flash
Creator(s):Université de Montréal Exhibit Center; Luc Bouvrette
This exhibit is also available in: French 

Explore Herschel Island!
Herschel Island is located at the mouth of the Mackenzie River Delta in the Beaufort Sea. As home to the Inuvialuit culture, the island has been settled since time immemorial. This virtual museum exhibit explores the history and culture of the island from the days of the whalers hunting bowhead whales for their meat, oil, bones and baleen to the present. Both the NWMP and the Hudson’s Bay Company established outposts on Herschel Island early in the twentieth century.
This exhibit uses the following plug-ins:Real Player; QuickTime
Creator(s):Yukon Territorial Government, Heritage Branch; Yukon College
This exhibit is also available in: French 

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