Many of you are looking for spare options at the American coastal coast for your spring getaways. This is a great opportunity to discover regions or sometimes unloved cities, whose face has changed. A 24 or a 48 hour in Ottawa to change air? Why not! With its many museums and its excellent gastronomic scene, the Canadian capital is worth visited.
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Recognizable by his famous sculpture Mamanthe giant spider of Louise Bourgeois, the Museum of Fine Arts of Canada is an essential stop a few steps from Parliament. From June, he will exhibit the works of women artists: Nadia Myre, Skawennati and Erica Rutherford. Until then, we go there to admire her vast glass roof and the exhibition dedicated to Joyce Wieland who differs from that underway at MBAM.
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And it is absolutely necessary to take the time to enter the heart of Notre-Dame cathedral, on the other side of the street, on Sussex, in order to admire its incredible blue vault dotted with stars.
This time, for a brief 24 hours, it was rather the art gallery of Ottawa that made me an eye. The artistic diving begins there as soon as the Jackson Café, where two large murals full of foliage features the digital art of Eric Chan.
This is then the new exhibition The cave Who caught my attention. She offers a selection of works that collector Bill Staubi gave to Gao and pays tribute to his support for Queers artists.
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You can also admire a superb example of art glassware, a stained glass window of the last century representing Joan of Arc.
Significant fact, admission to GAO is always free!
A Canadian Odyssey and much more!
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At the Canadian Museum of Nature, it is a real tour in the country that we are offered. The building itself impresses with its castle gaits and the more recent integration of its glass tower.
Marie-Eve Blanchard
Marie-Eve Blanchard
Exhibitions at the heart of this building, the first designed to serve as a national museum in the country, invite a vast adventure: from Canadian mammal dioramas, including the dinosaurs of the Fossil gallery to the impressive collection of Canadian birds, no less than 450 species, the museum is full of species and specimens of all kinds.
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The exhibitions on water, on the Arctic, as well as the gigantic artistic representations of the Earth and the Moon seven meters in diameter also attract attention. We can really spend several hours there.
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For the next year, you should not fail to take a walk in the basement, where the exhibition Flight butterflies is back.
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Go there: By car (2:30 from Montreal or 4:30 am from Quebec) or by train with Rail (from $ 84 round trip, several departures per day).
LOVE: We opt for a Quebec family business with the Germain Hotel Ottawa. In addition to being very well located, at a distance from the market by market by and the MBAC, the hotel offers elegant rooms with a neat style and a frankly impeccable service. For a more economical option, the Alt Hotel is also well located, closer to Parliament.
germainhotels.com/en/le-germain-hotel/ottawa
Marie-Eve Blanchard
Marie-Eve Blanchard
Sitting: exhausted after an intense day of visits? We stay at the hotel and go to the second floor where the Norca, for “Northern Cuisine and Canadian Ingredients”, elected home. A brand new and excellent menu has been put forward since the recent arrival of Chef James Bratsberg. Still energy? We go to the Arlo, enjoy a few natural dishes and wines in a cozy atmosphere and good neighborhood alive.
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Not to be missed: The Canadian Tulips Festival where more than 300,000 tulips color the shore of Lake Dow on the curtain canal. In 1945, the Dutch government sent tulip bulbs to thank Canada for welcoming the Dutch royal family during the Second World War and to highlight the role that Canadian troops played in the Liberation of the Netherlands. Each year since, tradition has been perpetuated. From May 9 to 19, at the Park of Commissioners.
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