The Armour Archive

My wife and I are going to be in Ottawa next weekend, and I was wondering if there were any displays of armour, or even any kind of medieval-ish collections in the city?
The web site for the War Museum says it's closed for renos until May. The site map for the Museum of Civilization has a section tantalizingly called "The Armoured Warrior", but it's about tanks.

They are actually building a brand new war museum beside the Ottawa River, its quite immpressive- try to drive by it and take a look. The old war museum had a couple of 16th C helmets on display, but thats it. I used to volunteer at the Museum of Civilization, and they didnt have anything armour related on permanent exhibition (a couple travelling ones had stuff but are gone). I have never heard of any collections in Ottawa (Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto's got some stuff though).

de Hervé

Ah well, thanks anyway.
Maybe we'll look for some wild nightclubs.

BTW - We're going to Ottawa so so that Her Excellency Adrienne Clarkson can pin one of these on my wife:
[img]http://www.gg.ca/honours/medals/msdmedal_military.jpg[/img]
http://www.gg.ca/Search/honours_descrip ... d=213&tc=2 (Susan Rose)

Hew wrote:Ah well, thanks anyway.
Maybe we'll look for some wild nightclubs.

BTW - We're going to Ottawa so so that Her Excellency Adrienne Clarkson can pin one of these on my wife:
[img]http://www.gg.ca/honours/medals/msdmedal_military.jpg[/img]
http://www.gg.ca/Search/honours_descrip ... d=213&tc=2 (Susan Rose)

Wow! That's great!

Congratulations to Mrs. Rose!

Kel

I second those congratulations!
You'll like Rideau Hall- some cool architecture. 175 rooms covering 9500 square meters. The gardens are quite large too.