Main Architectural Elements of The Museum Exterior
The museum complex consists of two wings, the public and curatorial wings, surrounded by a series of plazas connected by a grand staircase. Naturalized park areas connect the museum and its plazas to the Ottawa River and nearby Jacques Cartier Park.
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The cantelivered levels of the Curatorial Wing represent the outcropping bedrock of the Canadian Shield.
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The Public Wing containing the museum's galleries and other public spaces, the glazing of which is intended to be emblematic of a melting glacier
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The entrance to the Public Wing, evocative of a human face, with the entrance plaza along Laurier Avenue
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The Grand Staircase between the two wings, leading to a lower plaza and the park alongside the Ottawa River
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View of the entire complex from the Ottawa River
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