Naval Museum of Alberta

About

At the Naval Museum of Alberta, you will learn about the naval history of Canada, the Royal Canadian Navy, the service, the sailors, and the ships that the navy has sailed over its more than one-hundred-year history.

Highlights

Among its many exhibits and artifacts, the museum hosts a replica of a WW II ship’s wheelhouse, a corvette bridge, three naval aircraft that flew off of HMCS Bonaventure, including one of only three Banshee Naval jet fighters left in the world, a working periscope from the submarine HMCS Ojibwa, an anchor from HMCS Protecteur and a propeller from HMCS Huron. The NMA also proudly exhibits one of the original Enigma machines used during WW II by the enemy to encrypt messages sent between and to U-boats at sea. The Naval Museum also has one of the largest indoor exhibits of major ships’ weapons systems in Canada.

There is an extensive collection of archives, artifacts and photographs related to Canadian naval and maritime history co-located in the custody of the University of Calgary Library and Archives.

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