What’s Happening

The Museum offers a wide variety of activities and promotions for visitors on nearly every calendar day. Please click on the title of events for more information.

September

Our fall opening hours are: Friday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm.

Check our website for more information, to plan your visit, and to download our free six-language audio guide.

Please join us for our 105^th season — we can’t wait to welcome you back!

Crafts and Activities

Need some entertainment while you’re at home? We’ve taken some of the crafts you would find at our craft tables, and put them online for you to follow along from home!

Visit our Crafts and Activities page, and download all of our instructions and info sheets.

Virtual Tour

The Bytown Museum, in partnership with Point3D Commercial Imaging Ottawa, is excited to announce the launch of its virtual tour. Take a walk through our three floors of exhibitions, explore artefacts, and immerse yourself in the Museum – located in the Commissariat, Ottawa’s oldest stone building – from home!

Take the Virtual Tour Today

Bytown: Bit by Bit

Filmed on site in social-distancing conditions, and featuring our very own Manager of Visitor Experience Steve Mattiussi, these short videos will feature hot topics on Bytown/Ottawa’s history as well as previews of upcoming exhibitions, special guests, and behind-the-scenes happenings.

Episode 1: Ottawa’s Violent History

Episode 2: Ottawa Becomes Capital

Episode 3: Architecture Tour Pt. 1

Episode 4: Architecture Tour Pt. 2

Episode 5: Building the Canal

Episode 6: Victorian Curiosities

Episode 7: Canadian Confederation

Episode 8: Thomas D’Arcy McGee

Episode 9: The Great Fire of 1900

Episode 10: A Local Canvas Pt. 1

Episode 11: A Local Canvas Pt. 2

Episode 12: Lt. Col. John By