Billings Estate Museum
2100 Cabot Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H
> View Telephone Number(613) 247-4830

Visit the historic estate of one of Ottawa's founding families and learn the impact the Billings family had on the city’s history. They settled on the shores of the Rideau River in 1812 and helped build farms, an early Ottawa bridge and a timber business.

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Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 9N4
> View Telephone Number(613) 990-1985

The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) is located in a reconstructed railway tunnel at 1 Rideau Canal (between the Rideau Canal and the Chateau Laurier). Canada's first photography museum maintains a permanent collection of more than 150,000 images focusing on Canadian photography as an art form. More information (613) 990-8257

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Bytown Museum
1 Canal Lane, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 1L1
> View Telephone Number(613) 234-4570

Beside the entrance to the locks to the Rideau Canal (just steps away from the Chateau Laurier) stands the Commissariat, the oldest stone building in Ottawa and the home of the Bytown Museum. The Bytown Museum features a permanent exhibit on the history of Ottawa and its founder, Lieutenant Colonel John By, as well as on the Rideau Canal. Open April to November visit the Bytown Museum at the Ottawa locks. Home of Ottawa's history. More information (613) 234-4570.

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Bank of Canada/Currency Museum
245 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0G9
> View Telephone Number(613) 782-8914

The Bank of Canada's Currency Museum has the most complete collection of Canadian bank notes, coins and tokens in the world. You can learn about the history of currency in Canada and how bank notes are designed and printed today. The impressive Yap stone, a curious piece from the island of Yap, is on display in the Garden Court, just outside the Currency Museum of the Bank of Canada.

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