The Canadian Museum Of History

 I went over to the Canadian Museum of History to see the current temporary exhibit. Here is a view of the curatorial wing from the east. The flowerbeds are quite different from my last visit in May, when they were filled with tulips.

The graceful curving lines of the Museum are the design of First Nations architect Douglas Cardinal, who lives in the area, and this place is deemed his masterpiece.

Between the wings, we look across the Ottawa River to the Ottawa shore. This museum is the only one of the seven national museums in the area to be on the Gatineau side of the river.

The current special exhibit looks at the early development of royalty in Europe, namely in southeastern Europe, in the pre-Roman era. It starts with an artifact that is, by comparison, relatively new.

This is a replica, but one of the last commissioned crowns in Europe, made for Queen Marie of Romania.

This exhibit is the work of the Field Museum in Chicago, which organized it in collaboration with a number of museums in southeastern Europe across multiple countries.

The story begins thousands of years before the current era, before the very idea of royalty existed in this part of the world.

These figurines date to the Neolithic era.