We offer: 2D and 3D turnkey exhibitions incorporating artefacts from the national collection, images, histori-cal documents, interpretation texts, graphic elements, display cases and audiovisual elements.

Quality Exhibitions The exhibitions offered have been conceived by the curators of the Canadian Museum of Ci-vilization Corporation (CMCC). They are often a reduced version of an exhibition presented at the CMCC museums. We also offer exhibitions created only for travelling. All exhibitions are subject to the same quality standards as those established for the CMCC.

Various Sizes The exhibitions offered can be divided into five categories:

Small (less than 140 m² / 1500 ft²); Medium (140 m² / 1500 ft² to 280 m² / 3000 ft²); Large (over 280 m² / 3000 ft²); Linear (2D); “Suitcase” exhibitions.

Interesting Themes The subjects presented reflect the CMCC mission, which is aimed at accurately presenting the culture and history of Canada and its inhabitants. They include the following categories: archaeology, cultural groups, Canadian history, social history and the arts. We also offer ex-hibitions that are specially conceived for children.

Rental The rental includes a detailed installation manual, interpretation notes, suggestions for activities, an educational program, promotional elements, and one of our qualified preparators to install artefacts when necessary. The rental period is generally 12 weeks. This may be adjusted according to your needs and the availability of the exhibition. Loan fees vary according to exhibition size and content. They are generally between $3,000 and $10,000, but can also be less. Barring exceptions, the host museum must pay the cost of transportation on delivery.

Travelling Exhibitions Program of the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation

AVAILABLE EXHIBITIONS – SMALL

For more information Sophie Cormier, Manager 819 776-8480 Valérie Grassi, Coordinator 819 776-8464 Malcah Sussman, Coordinator 819 776-8347

100 Laurier St, Gatineau QC K1A 0M8 CANADA www.civilization.ca/travelling

Pack Your Bags! A Kid’s Ticket to Travel 93-112 m² (1000-1200 ft²) 2008-2010 Starting at $15,000

Themes: Various activities invite children and families to join in the exciting adventure of five very different kinds of travel: journeying to a new home, visiting new places, taking on new challenges, joining in a celebration, and taking imaginary trips to the destinations of our dreams.

This fun-filled exhibition helps children explore and unders-tand why people travel and how travelling can change us. The many engaging ideas, activities and special artifacts in Pack Your Bags! encourage children to think about their own sense of identity and community. Content: Eight artefacts, two videos, one sound game as well as 100 props of all kinds like costumes and about 20 related activities. Photo: Steven Darby

CANADA ONLY

Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Mail Order Catalogue in Canada 117 m² (1260 ft²) 2008-2009 Tour 2 – Final tour Free rental thanks to the financial contribution of Canada Post You only pay incoming transport

The subject of this exhibition is the history of the mail-order catalogue in Canada from the 1880s to the 1950s. The mail-order catalogue was a significant chapter in the history of retailing and mass consumption in Canada. Content: 113 artefacts: 56 catalogues and 57 items originally for sale in the cata-logues. Three audio productions. Themes: The Canadian Catalogue in Time and Space; A Modern Household Runs on the Catalogue; We can Handle Your Orders; The Selling of Sweet Dreams; The New Persuaders.

Photo: Canada National Archives

Acres of Dreams revisits the marketing campaign and messages used by the gov-ernment, the transportation companies, and other regional commercial associa-tions in order to promote the West in brochures, posters, paintings, agricultural ex-hibitions and others, mainly in Europe and the United-States. Content: Approximately 55-60 artifacts with a minimum of 15 reproductions : pos-ters, costumes, trunk, various furniture, religious objects and everyday use objects.

Themes : Marketing the West ; Travelling to the West; Endless Horizons; A Com-munity with Multiple Roots; Finding the New West.

Photo: Library and Archives of Canada

Acres of Dreams: Settling the Canadian Prairies 140 m² (1500 ft²) 2008-2010 Starting at $10,000 transport included

Heart and Soul: Quebec Folk Art 140 m² (1500 ft²) 2009-2012 Loan fee to be determined

This lively and dynamic exhibition covers three centuries of Quebec creation from 1700 to 2000, mainly through the CMC’s exceptional collection of Quebec folk art. The thematic approach helps visitors realize that folk art mirrors a society seen by artists who convey their perceptions in their own way, be they traditional and ratio-nal or emotional and unbridled. Content: About 100 artefacts: Sculptures, paintings, mixed-media works and dis-parate assemblages, works made of wood, assorted metals, ceramics, textiles and unusual materials; Video interviews; Activity zone (optional). Themes: Traditional or Non-Conformist?; Artists Worth Knowing; Creating Folk Art; Collecting Folk Art.

Photo: Steven Darby

Photo: Steven Darby

AVAILABLE EXHIBITIONS – MEDIUM

"Rocket" Richard: The Legend – The Legacy 140 m² (1500 ft²) 2008-2010 Tour 2 Starting at $10,000 transport included

This exhibition celebrates Maurice Richard, a Canadian sports hero who trans-cended the world of sport. The exhibition presents the collection from the hoc-key star’s estate, acquired by the Museum in 2002.

Content: 90 artefacts, two videos, 16 audio stations (songs, advertisements,

etc.) and one interactive game.

Themes: Fire on Ice; The Rocket in Orbit; One of Us; The Rocket Forever;

Number 9. Photo: Claude and Stéphane Juteau

The Tunit, a Paleo-Eskimo People 2 units 1 m X 1 m X 0.25 m (39’’ x 39’’ x 10’’) 2006-2010 Starting at $750

This small discovery box exhibit is a spin-off of the exhibition Lost Visions, Forgotten Dreams. It explores the history of the Palaeo-Eskimos who occupied Arctic Canada for three thousand years before the Inuit through themes such as: Ways of Life, Hunting Magic, Religion and the End of the Tunit World in a compact and instructive way.

Content: 20 replicas, graphic panels, photos, two vidéos, educational program and

hands-on material.

Photo: Steven Darby

An exhibition of photographs of Arctic landscapes, sacred sites and inuksuit. These places of power, known to Inuit throughout the Arctic for centuries, have been cap-tured in a series of stunning photographs by Norman Hallendy.

Places of Power, Objects of Veneration 42 linear m. (150 linear ft.) 2005-2010 Starting at $1,000

Photo: Norman Hallendy Content : 36 framed colour photographs (58 cm x 66 cm / 23 in. x 26 in.), introductory

panels, labels and a graphic panel showing different types of inuksuit.

For more information Sophie Cormier, Manager 819 776-8480 Valérie Grassi, Coordinator 819 776-8464 Malcah Sussman, Coordinator 819 776-8347

100 Laurier St, Gatineau QC K1A 0M8 CANADA www.civilization.ca/travelling

AVAILABLE EXHIBITIONS – IRREGULAR FORMAT

Three flags are featured in the exhibition: the Red Ensign, which flew over Canada’s Parliament for the last time on February 15, 1965; the Pearson Pennant, the Cana-dian prime minister’s preferred design for the nation’s new flag; and the first Maple Leaf flag, which was raised above the Peace Tower, in Ottawa, on Febru-ary 15, 1965. Content: Three artefacts, one text panel, one video.

Photo: Steven Darby

The First Maple Leaf Flag W: 7.5 m x D: 6.4 m x H: 4.3 m (25’ x 21’ x 14’) 2007-2010 Starting at $7,000

POTENTIAL EXHIBITIONS

Love ’em, Hate ’em: Canadians and their Politicians 93 m2 (1 000 ft²) 2009-2012 Starting at $7,000

This exhibition gives a very different perspective of how the public views its elected political leaders. It shows how public opinion is often shaped and expressed by the images of public personalities and by the styles of political leaders. The artefacts refer to some of our most notable politicians (Laurier, Trudeau, Diefenbaker…), and show the range of public mes-sages that contribute to the making of a public image.

Photo: Steven Darby CANADA ONLY

Photo: Don Hunstein © Sony Classical

Glenn Gould: The Sounds of Genius 270 m2 (2 906 ft²) 2009-2011 $35,000

Glenn Gould was one of the greatest musicians of our time, both in his ideas and his creative genius. This thematic exhibition allows visitors to discover the “real” Glenn Gould, plural and singular: the man and his sources of inspiration, his character, the public figure and his career as a virtuoso, the private individual and the man of the production studios, the theorist, diarist and letter-writer.

50-years of Kinngait Prints: Invention and Tradition (working title) de 112m2 à 140 m² (de 1 200 ft² à 1500 ft²) 2009-2012 Starting at $8,000 Since the late 1950s, graphic artists from Kinngait (Cape Dorset) have adopted and transformed a variety of printmaking techniques. This exhibition focuses upon the ongoing stylistic and technical explorations which are synonymous today with the Kinngait graphics studio. This is a rare opportunity to view five decades of ex-perimental Cape Dorset prints, contextualized with artist commentary, curatorial texts, historical photographs and a digital video.

Image: Hatched, Suvinai Ashoona, 2007.

Wind Work, Wind Play: Weathervanes and Whirligigs 93m2 (1,000 ft²) 2010-2013 Loan fee to be determined Weathervanes are tools, whirligigs are toys, but these grand old icons of folk art were crafted with a sense of both beauty and fun—whether they were going to be useful or not. The exhibition includes some of the handsomest weathervanes and wittiest whir-ligigs ever to turn in Canada’s winter winds and summer breezes.

Photo: Harry Foster

POTENTIAL EXHIBITIONS

Photo: Steven Darby

TOP SECRET: Mission Toy 111,5 m2 (1,200 ft²) 2011-2013 Starting at $10,000 This exhibition invites the experts – children – to use their investigative skills

to explore, examine and learn about intriguing toys from around the world.

The exhibition is aimed at children ages 5 to 12, their families and school

groups.

The Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-1918 (working title) Size to be dertermined 2011-2013 Loan fee to be determined

Photo: F. Johansen

This exhibition brings to life the story of the CAE, inviting visitors on a journey of explo-ration and discovery as they follow in the footsteps of some of Canada’s most notable scientists and ethnologists.

For more information Sophie Cormier, Manager 819 776-8480 Valérie Grassi, Coordinator 819 776-8464 Malcah Sussman, Coordinator 819 776-8347

100 Laurier St, Gatineau QC K1A 0M8 CANADA www.civilization.ca/travelling

Let’s Play! A Canadian Toy Story (working title) Size to be determined 2011-2013 Loan fee to be determined Let’s Play! A Canadian Toy Story is a romp through the history of childhood play in Canada. Toys, dolls, and games from prehistoric times to the present document the kinds of playthings children and adolescents use to challenge and amuse themselves. Many build mental and physical skills. Some form attitudes that last a lifetime. Let’s Play! is playful. Visitors have ample opportu-nity to engage in play and relive their youth.

Photo: Harry Foster

CURRENTLY ON THE ROAD Across Canada: ACRES OF DREAMS Exporail, Saint-Constant , QC 28/04/2008-12/10/2008; Esplanade Heritage & Art Centre, Medicine Hat, AB 03/11/2008-15/02/2009 CROSS CURRENTS (End of tour) Eptek Art & Culture Centre, Summerside, PE 07/06/2008-12/10/2008 FIRST MAPLE LEAF FLAG Royal Ontario Museum , Toronto, ON 06/10/2007-06/01/2008 Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, BC 14/01/2010-11/04/2010

NUVISAVIK (End of tour) Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON 19/01/2008-30/03/2008

PACK YOUR BAGS! The Rooms, St. John’s, NL 21/01/2008-27/04/2008; London Regional Children’s Museum, London, ON 04/04/2009-28/06/2009

PLACES OF POWER GranitExpo, Stanstead, QC 20/08/2007-11/11/2007

“ROCKET” RICHARD Château Ramezay, Montréal, QC 17/12/2007-20/04/2008; The Rooms, St. John’s NL 08/09/2008-30/11/2008; Nanaimo District Museum, Nanaimo, BC 20/07/2009-11/10/2009; Esplanade Heritage & Art Centre, Medicine Hat, AB 02/11/2009-24/01/2010 Exploration Place, Prince George, BC 15/02/2010-09/05/2010 SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Grey Roots Museum & Archives, Owen Sound, ON 14/01/2008-04/05/2008 St. Catharines Museum, St. Catharines, ON 29/05/2008-24/08/2008

In Asia: FIRST PEOPLES OF CANADA Beijing 01/08/2008-08/10/2008 – Asian Tour 2008-2009

In Brazil: ISUMAVUT: Art of Nine Women from Arctic Canada Brasilia, Rio de Janiero, Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo 2007-2008

In United States TOP SECRET: MISSION TOY St. Paul MN, Sausolito CA, San Jose CA, Forth Worth TX, Houston TX, Brooklyn NY, Boston MA 2008-2010 – Youth Museum Exhibit Collaborative