May 1 to June 30, daily, 9 am - 6 pm; Thursdays until 9 pm July 1 to September 4, daily, 9am - 6pm; Thursdays and Fridays until 9 pm September 5 to October 9, daily 9am - 6pm; Thursdays until 9pm October 10 to April 30, Tuesday to Sunday, 9am - 5pm; Thursdays until 9 pm December 14: 9am - 6pm December 24: 9am - 3pm Closed December 25 (Christmas Day)
Easter Monday: 9am - 5pm
Admission:
Admission to garden is free. Admission to museum is Adults: $8; seniors: $7; youth (13 to 17): $6; children (2 to 12): $4; family (max. 5 people; max. 3 adults): $20 . Admission is half-price on Sundays. Admission is free every Thursday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The museum also has four 'free days' per year on Sunday before Heritage Day (February 15), the Sunday preceding Museums’ Day (May 18), Canada Day (July 1) and Remembrance Day (November 11).
Added to JGarden:
7/27/2001
Last Updated:
2/23/2006
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JGarden Description:
The Canadian Museum of Civilization presents over 10,000 years of Canada's pre-history, history and culture. The Museum building is an architectural masterpiece -- a symbolic depiction of a land sculpted by winds, waters and glaciers at the end of the Ice Age, when humans first crossed into Canada from Asia.
The Canadian Museum of Civilization presents over 10,000 years of Canada's pre-history, history and culture. The Museum building is an architectural masterpiece -- a symbolic depiction of a land sculpted by winds, waters and glaciers at the end of the Ice Age, when humans first crossed into Canada from Asia.
The Japanese garden is a roof garden, designed by Shunmyo Masuno with the theme Wakei No Niwa, a reference to the Japanese and Canadian people. Most of the materials for the garden are from the region with native plants and stone selected from the nearby Gatineau Hills.
The design team included Shunmyo Masuno, a Zen Buddhist monk from Japan, Patrick Mooney from University of British Columbia, Ueto Construction from Japan, Massie & Associates Ltd from Hull Quebec and Vaughan Landscape Planning and Design.
Other museums nearby include the Canadian Children’s Museum and the Canadian Postal Museum.
Saihoji Temple, Kyoto
Actuality is emblem here: a walled-in garden
With its hieroglyph of the heart a lake with lotuses,
And its stones and trees a figure of ascent
From painted maze and sensuous paradise
To the Pure Land of the mind, the interior garden.
All paths wind inward to this inward mirror --
Reflecting-pool of primitive solitude --
Where the mind, quiescent, meditates its shadow,
In the garden's Heart this cipher of the heart.
Some bonze cropped bald by wisdom's scythe, to glean
In Chinese glaosses on the Sakya sage
Reality's scattered kernels, planted here
A green and less laborious commentary:
Perpetual witness of the perfect stillness.
Only the moss speaks still, a living scroll;
From the lakeshore to the hillside a silver-green
Page of continuous discourse where the foot moves
More soundlessly that thought along the paths laid
Over ten centuries ago
For the saints rehearsing sutras.
Their path unfolding in a single text,
They moved on an obscure way more quietly
Than the arhat's mantras or the lohan's prayer;
And bruised no stone, no grasses in their passing,
The ground of their desire inviolate.
Nameless, they merged into indifferent turf,
Engrossed in one impartite grace of green,
Their separate deaths lost in this single life --
Men without memory, without distinction.
Though earth assumes them like a scroll rolled up,
The path is fragrant still because they passed here.
http://www.civilization.ca/ 