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Excellent Museum on the History of Ottawa
Bytown Museum的点评
点评：If you want to really understand Ottawa and its full history, this is a small museum that does great job of telling the city's story. Today it is easy to simply see Ottawa as the capital of Canada and expect it has always been designed for that like Washington DC. However, the city's history, explained in this museum, allows you to see a much deeper and more interesting story of an accidental capital bestowed on a frontier community that slowly grows to a worldly important city. The museum has existed for more than 100 years; however, it has been housed most appropriately since 1951 in the Commissariat Building, the oldest surviving building in Ottawa along the Rideau Canal the real reason the city is here.
We visited the museum on Labor Day Sunday right before its summer hours closing at 5:30 after walking the Ottawa Locks. While we only had 30 minutes to see the museum, it was well worth the $10C/person. I will say the best part about visiting at closing is we had the museum to ourselves with no crowd. I would also say the staff was very gracious with us allowing us to purchase gifts as we left right at 5:30. There is an audio tour that was very good. We did not get to hear all of it but did enjoy the highlights. I really enjoyed three presentation boxes with all the buildings that existed at 3 different times, founding, capital designation and 1920 as the Parliament Center Block was being rebuild from the 1916 fire. It was interesting to how much the city changed, including the one building that was still there in all 3 boxes, the Commissariat Building that holds the museum.
Side note: I think the discussion they have at the beginning to acknowledge the contributions of the original First Peoples and their lack of consent for what developed in Ottawa was very good as it is a part of the city's story. However, my only problem with the museum was they overplay that too much in telling the rest of the story of Ottawa.
We visited the museum on Labor Day Sunday right before its summer hours closing at 5:30 after walking the Ottawa Locks. While we only had 30 minutes to see the museum, it was well worth the $10C/person. I will say the best part about visiting at closing is we had the museum to ourselves with no crowd. I would also say the staff was very gracious with us allowing us to purchase gifts as we left right at 5:30. There is an audio tour that was very good. We did not get to hear all of it but did enjoy the highlights. I really enjoyed three presentation boxes with all the buildings that existed at 3 different times, founding, capital designation and 1920 as the Parliament Center Block was being rebuild from the 1916 fire. It was interesting to how much the city changed, including the one building that was still there in all 3 boxes, the Commissariat Building that holds the museum.
Side note: I think the discussion they have at the beginning to acknowledge the contributions of the original First Peoples and their lack of consent for what developed in Ottawa was very good as it is a part of the city's story. However, my only problem with the museum was they overplay that too much in telling the rest of the story of Ottawa.
翻译：如果你想真正了解渥太华及其悠久的历史，这家小型博物馆堪称讲述这座城市故事的绝佳去处。如今，人们往往只把渥太华视作加拿大的首都，并以为它从一开始就是像华盛顿特区那样被规划为首都的。然而，通过这座博物馆所呈现的城市历史，你便能了解到一个更为深刻且有趣的历程：一个原本只是边陲小镇的社区，阴差阳错地成为了首都，随后逐渐发展为一座在世界舞台上举足轻重的城市。这座博物馆已经存在了100多年；不过自1951年起，它便安置在里多运河旁的政务大楼内——该大楼是渥太华现存最古老的建筑物，也是这座城市得以建立的根本原因。
劳动节那天，我们在沿着里多运河漫步之后前往博物馆参观。当时正值夏季，博物馆于下午5点半闭馆。虽然只有30分钟的时间参观，但每人10加元的门票费用绝对物有所值。我得说，在闭馆时参观的最大好处就是整个博物馆只有我们几个人，完全没有人潮拥挤的情况。另外，工作人员也非常友善，允许我们在5点半离开时购买纪念品。博物馆还提供语音导览，效果很不错。虽然我们没能听完整个导览，但也领略到了其中的精华部分。我最喜欢的是三个展示盒，里面呈现了同一座建筑在三个不同历史时期的样貌——建馆初期、……1920年，正值议会中心大楼从1916年的火灾中重建之际。有趣的是，这座城市发生了巨大变化；不过有三张图片里都出现了同一栋建筑，那就是如今作为博物馆所在的军需品大楼。
顺便提一下：我认为开头部分关于承认原住民的贡献，以及他们在渥太华发展过程中并未给出同意这一事实的讨论非常好，因为这也是这座城市历史的一部分。不过，我对这家博物馆唯一的不满就是：在讲述渥太华的其他历史时，他们把这一点过度强调了。
劳动节那天，我们在沿着里多运河漫步之后前往博物馆参观。当时正值夏季，博物馆于下午5点半闭馆。虽然只有30分钟的时间参观，但每人10加元的门票费用绝对物有所值。我得说，在闭馆时参观的最大好处就是整个博物馆只有我们几个人，完全没有人潮拥挤的情况。另外，工作人员也非常友善，允许我们在5点半离开时购买纪念品。博物馆还提供语音导览，效果很不错。虽然我们没能听完整个导览，但也领略到了其中的精华部分。我最喜欢的是三个展示盒，里面呈现了同一座建筑在三个不同历史时期的样貌——建馆初期、……1920年，正值议会中心大楼从1916年的火灾中重建之际。有趣的是，这座城市发生了巨大变化；不过有三张图片里都出现了同一栋建筑，那就是如今作为博物馆所在的军需品大楼。
顺便提一下：我认为开头部分关于承认原住民的贡献，以及他们在渥太华发展过程中并未给出同意这一事实的讨论非常好，因为这也是这座城市历史的一部分。不过，我对这家博物馆唯一的不满就是：在讲述渥太华的其他历史时，他们把这一点过度强调了。
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