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Canadian Museum of Nature

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Corporate name headingCanadian Museum of Nature
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Variant(s)Musée canadien de la nature
Canada. Canadian Museum of Nature
Canada. Musée canadien de la nature
National Museums of Canada. Canadian Museum of Nature
See alsoPredecessor: National Museum of Natural Sciences (Canada)
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Absorbed corporate body: National Museums of Canada
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Beginning date1990-04-01
Address240 McLeod Street Ottawa Ontario Canada K2P 2R1
Field of activityNatural history
Found inCanada's missing dimension, science and history in the ... 1990: t.p. (Canadian Museum of Nature) verso of t.p. (Ottawa, Canada; Musée canadien de la nature)
NLC 6-14-90 (Canadian Museum of Nature; name changed on 4-1-90 from the National Museum of Natural Sciences; gov. by the National Museums of Canada)
Amicus, Aug. 22, 2001 (Canadian Museum of Nature; name changed Apr. 1, 1990 from National Museum of Natural Sciences; became a crown corporation July 1, 1990, at the same time absorbing part of the functions of the former National Museums of Canada; equivalent: Musée canadien de la nature)
Canadian Museum of Nature website, viewed on February 20, 2019 (The purpose of the Canadian Museum of Nature is to increase throughout Canada and internationally, interest in, knowledge of and appreciation and respect for the natural world by establishing, maintaining and developing for research and posterity a collection of natural history objects, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada, and by demonstrating the natural world, the knowledge derived from it and the understanding it represents.)
   <https://nature.ca/en/about-us/museum-corporation/mission-mandate>
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