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List of tourist attractions in Hamilton, Ontario

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Hamilton, Ontario has a large variety of historical sites and cultural and educational institutions.

Copps Coliseum
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.
Dundurn Castle
The Canadian Football Hall-of-Fame

Historical sites

  • [1] Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, static and flying museum, Mount Hope airport
  • Dundurn Castle, including the Hamilton Military Museum and Dundurn Park, west end. Home of Sir Allan Napier MacNab, former Prime Minister of Upper Canada.
  • [2] Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology, east end
  • Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Heritage Museum, downtown
  • [3] Whitehern Historic House & Garden, downtown
  • [4] Erland Lee House, birthplace of Women's Institutes, Upper Stoney Creek
  • [5] Battlefield House Museum, Stoney Creek
  • [6] Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, in the former Custom House, a National Historic Site, north end

Cultural institutions

Art

  • [7] Art Gallery of Hamilton, downtown. Second largest permanent collection in Ontario, and third largest in Canada.
  • [8] McMaster Museum of Art, west end
  • [9] James Street North Art District
  • [10] Imperial Cotton Centre for the Arts
  • Transit Gallery
  • Arctic Gallery

Music

  • [11] Brott Music Festival Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster, Burlington
  • [12] Opera Ontario
  • [13] Symphony Hamilton (Hamilton, Burlington)
  • [14] National Academy Orchestra of Canada (Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster, Burlington)
  • Bach Elgar Choir
  • Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra

Museums

  • Dundurn Castle and Military Museum (Home of Sir Allan MacNab, former Prime Minister of Upper Canada)
  • [15] HMCS HAIDA, National Historic Site and historic naval ship; Canada's most famous warship and the last remaining Tribal Class in the world.
  • [16] Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, home of one of the last two remaining operational Lancaster bombers, also in operation Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, Bristol Bolingbroke.
  • [17] The Canada Marine Discovery Centre
  • [18] Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, north end.
  • [19] Worker's Heritage Museum
  • [20] Green Venture EcoHouse, east end
  • Hamilton Children's Museum [21], east end
  • Whitehearn (Home of the McQueston family)
  • Canada Marine Discovery Centre
  • Battlefield Castle (a military outpost from the War of 1812)
  • Museum of Steam and Technology (look into Hamilton's past and explore The Industrial Revolution)
  • Erland Lee Museum
  • Fieldcote Memorial Park & Museum
  • Giant's Rib Discovery Centre (learn about the Niagara Escarpment a Unesco World Biosphere Reserve)
  • [22] Hamilton Downtown Arts Centre
  • [23] Haunted Hamilton Tour(Ghost walks of several haunted sites)

Theatre

Outdoor attractions

See also: Hamilton Conservation Authority

Golf Courses

(see also Sports below)

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