Museum of Civilization to get new focus

[rodionx]

I presume they are keeping the Children's Museum? My kids loved it. As for the museum as a whole, they could rename it "Museum of First Nations and Some Other Stuff" and it wouldn't be any less coherent than it is now.

The problem with that museum is that it never found a theme or narrative to hold it together. Ask someone to describe their last visit there, and they'll say something about totem poles and trail off. Civilization is just too broad a topic; it's even broader than History. You could credibly declare any random Starbucks in Ottawa to be a museum of civilization. Just walk in and look around: you've got currency, written language, material culture, social customs, even mating rituals on occasion... It's all civilization.