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There are a number of appropriate museums in Ottawa Ontario Canada.

Canadian Museum of Civilization
100 Laurier Street, Gatineau Quebec
http://www.civilization.ca/

Canada Science and Technology Museum
1867 St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa Ontario
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/

Canada Aviation Museum
11 Aviation Parkway, Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/

Canada Agriculture Museum
Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.agriculture.technomuses.ca/

Canadian Museum of Nature
240 McLeod Street, Ottawa Ontario
http://www.nature.ca/

Diefenbunker Canada's Cold War Museum
3911 Carp Road, Carp Ontario
http://www.diefenbunker.ca/

Canadian War Museum
1 Vimy Place, Ottawa Ontario
http://www.warmuseum.ca/

National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Dr., Ottawa Ontario
http://www.gallery.ca/

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It's an interesting place indeed... built in the Cold War under Prime Minister Diefenbaker (hence the name Diefenbunker).

From the outside, it looks like an unassuming shed, but inside is a blast tunnel that leads into the hillside and down to a four-storey complex beneath. First stop: the radiation decontamination chambers. Last stop: the gift shop, which offers official Cold War-era federal government publications—in English and French—about how to build a bomb shelter at home. Along the way are a room where federal leaders would meet, a room for the Prime Minister (cot-sized only—no spuose allowed), a room for the Governor General, backup headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a sizeable cafeteria, bunk beds (each shared by three people in eight-hour shifts), a filtration system for extracting radioactive particles from surface air, etc.. The transmitters are located something like 14 kilometres away to prevent locating the bunker through triangulation.

At the lowest level is the Bank of Canada vault that would store gold in the event of a disaster (radioactive gold is not so valuable); it has the biggest vault door I've ever seen, and has a rectangular hallway around it with a mirror in each corner so a guard standing in one place could see all the way around.

It's an interesting piece of history that may yet come in handy if the Chinese Communist Party deploys biological or nuclear weapons.

http://www.diefenbunker.ca/

Quite an interesting tour - when the military decided they didn't need it anymore, they initially put it up for sale. One of the only bidders was the Hell's angels - it would have been fun to watch the RCMP try to conduct a drug raid on a facility designed to resist a nuclear attack.

Eventually the local townsfolk in Carp Ontario decided it would make an interesting museum, and I was one of the first to tour it.

Canada's was bought and turned into a museum (well, a couple of floors of it anyway). Kinda fascinating to walk through there, even though it was unfortunately stripped of all contents before its disposition, though many of the original artifacts and replicas have been since re-installed.

-ben

The Canadian version is the Diefenbunker. Located in the village of Carp (near Ottawa), it's now decomissioned, and a tourist attraction. Guided tours are available in the summer.

I recall some Canadian relatives discussing a bunker called the Diefen Bunker. I think they said it's a tourist attraction now. They give tours as if it were a museum.

Good research.

http://www.diefenbunker.ca/

If your in Ottawa you have to see this. It was decomissioned in the 90's and is now a museum.

The four level underground bunker would have housed government leaders, Gold, a radio station, and more in the event that we were ever attacked with nuclear weapons.
Check the site out it is very cool. I don't know anywhere elese you would be able to tour something similar.

The Deifenbunker!

http://www.diefenbunker.ca/

See the only Cold War, atomic bomb proof, command centre completely open to the public.

By far the coolest thing I've ever seen!

I'd put it number one on the geek tour! A key part of NORAD... mainframes and all....

Check out the Gift Shop: Buy a CD recorded at the CBC studios in the Diefenbunker!

The Canadian government put one up for sale. The problem is that the only serious bid came from none other than the Hell's Angels! They eventually turned it into a museum.