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Digital Museums Canada Funding Announcement

Digital Museums Canada Funding Announcement

Monday, May 15, 2023 —  We are thrilled to have been selected as a funding recipient through Digital Museums Canada! Thanks to an investment by Digital Museums Canada, we will be able to create an interactive digital platform for young audiences to learn about...

Map of Canada in the Diefenbunker's "An Inuit Story: The DEW Line" exhibition.

Interpretive Trail

Wednesday, November 30, 2022 — We are pleased to announce the completion of our Interpretive Trail! Thank you Sign FX for helping us bring this new immersive visitor experience to life. Thursday, April 13, 2023 — As the weather gets warmer, and the snow continues...

Overview of the Diefenbunker's Interpretive Trail with graphic overlay that pinpoints where the panels are located along the trail.

HVAC Project

On Monday, March 20, 2023, passersby may have noticed a sky-high crane at our site lifting large equipment along the bunker hillside. We are eager to share a behind-the-scenes look at this major capital project for the Diefenbunker. Due to generous funding we have...

Virtual Reality Experience

On November 26, 2022, we launched our new virtual reality experience! The year is 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis is over, but the Soviets have launched a nuclear attack on Canada’s capital. You have made it to the end of a 30-day lockdown period and have been given...

Mannequin dressed in Cold War apparel situated to the right in the Diefenbunker’s escape hatch. A large mass of wires drape in front of the mannequin and continue diagonally across the escape hatch and disappear into the top left corner.

Green Infrastructure Lighting Retrofit Project

Wednesday, July 6, 2022 —  We are grateful to FedDev Ontario for investing $600,000 in the Diefenbunker to support tourism relief and revitalization. These funds will go towards upgrading our facilities and exhibitions, allowing us to expand our inclusion of...

Federal Warning Centre with upgraded lighting

2022 Artist-in-Residence exhibition opens at the Diefenbunker

Ottawa, Ontario, October 14, 2022 — The Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum is pleased to launch its 2022 Artist-in-Residence exhibition, featuring the work of Ottawa-based artist Christos Pantieras. Opening Friday, October 14, 2022, Justin Case: The Enemy...

Image of the 2022 Artist-in-Residence exhibition "Justin Case: The Enemy Within."

2022 Cold War Speaker Series: The LGBT Purge

On October 6, 2022, we held the second session in our Cold War Speaker Series, where we were honoured to welcome Michelle Douglas and Christos Pantieras who presented their topic, The LGBT Purge: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow through Personal Experience and Visual...

2022 Cold War Speaker Series promotional image with Michelle Douglas and Christos Pantieras in the middle and "The LGBT Purge" text underneath.
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