Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum (French: Musée de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation du Canada) is a national agricultural museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Occupying several buildings within the Central Experimental Farm, the museum operates as a "working farm," and provides public programs and exhibitions on agriculture sciences, and on the history of agriculture in Canada. In addition to the exhibitions held on the grounds, the museum also organizes travelling exhibitions for other museums across the country.

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Musée de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation du Canada
Exterior of museum's main building, "Building 88"
Established12 October 1983 (1983-10-12)
Location901 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates45.387766°N 75.709083°W / 45.387766; -75.709083
TypeAgricultural museum
Visitors202,000 (FY2018–19)
DirectorKerry-Leigh Burchill
Websiteingeniumcanada.org/cafm
Ingenium

The museum's collection originated from a museum established at the Central Experimental Farm in 1920, although a national agriculture museum was not opened by the federal government until October 1983, as the Agriculture Museum. Initially occupying only a dairy barn, the museum later expanded to include several other buildings on the Central Experimental Farm. The museum was renamed the Canada Agriculture Museum in May 2000, before it adopted its current name in May 2013.

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