The curvilinear museum, designed by Douglas Cardinal, is packed with excellent displays and usually has a good blockbuster temporary exhibition going, too. Many people cross the Ottawa River to Hull to visit the Canadian Museum of History (100 Laurier), and that’s a good impulse. Why should you take a day trip from Ottawa to the Hull sector of Gatineau, Quebec? Are wine, a secret garden, a lake, cool food shops and an interprovincial zipline enough enticement?
