Mark Your Place in History with the Canadian Museum of Civilization's Millennium OdysseyHull, Quebec, May 10, 2000 — Beginning on Museums' Day, May 14, 2000, the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) invites visitors on a self-guided Millennium Odyssey through more than a thousand years of Canadian history.
Located throughout the Museum's permanent galleries, the kiosks of the Millennium Odyssey feature ten specially-chosen artifacts, including a 2000-year-old Raven amulet from the West Coast, a flask from the Plains of Abraham and a pair of skates from the 1972 Canada-Russia hockey series.
Each artifact tells a compelling story from Canada's past — narrated, researched and brought to life by expert curators from the CMC. Designed to demonstrate the richness of Canada's history and heritage, this new programme appeals to vistors of all ages, families and small groups.
"The ways in which the histories of individual people influence one another can be astonishing," says Dr. Victor Rabinovitch, President and CEO of the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation. "The tale told by a battlefield relic from eighteenth-century Quebec can take us back to a crucial moment in Canadian history. A nineteenth-century Prairie railway worker's clothing recalls the opening of Western Canada. By sharing our stories with one another, we see the larger picture of Canada and its diversity. This is what the Millennium Odyssey celebrates."
The collections of the Canadian Museum of Civilization are witnesses to human history, and every object has its own story to tell. Through a few of these stories, the Millennium Odyssey makes history live and breathe for visitors in a unique way.
One of the programme's special features is an interactive element that encourages visitors to record stories about their own treasured objects — or to add to the Museum's selection of defining moments for Canada. Some of these stories will be included on the CMC's Millennium Odyssey Web page. The Millennium Odyssey also includes a contest with monthly prizes, in which visitors answer history questions based on the Odyssey experience.
The Millennium Odyssey encourages visitors to contemplate and record their own place in history. From the humble to the sublime, objects tell us important stories about who we are as individuals and as members of the Canadian mosaic.
The Millennium Odyssey opens at the Canadian Museum of Civilization on May 14, 2000 and runs until May 12, 2001.
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