Canadian War Museum

• War Games, the newest exhibition developed by the Canadian War Museum, explores the importance of gaming to military training and strategy, as well as the impact of conflict on games in popular culture.
• "Games have long been intertwined with war," said Dean F. Oliver, Interim Vice-President and Director General of the Canadian War Museum.
• In five chronological zones, War Games presents major trends in the evolution of war games.
• The work of the Canadian War Museum is made possible in part through the financial support of the Government of Canada.

• Justice Anthony Besanko ruled the newspapers had established, by the “balance of probabilities” (the standard of evidence in a civil lawsuit), that Roberts-Smith had committed war crimes.
• Following the ruling, much public debate has focused on what the Australian War Memorial should do with Robert-Smith’s uniform, helmet and other artefacts of his on display.

The case of the oil paintings

• The memorial also has two heroic oil painting portraits of Roberts-Smith by one of Australia’s leading artists, Michael Zavros.
• These paintings were commissioned by the memorial in 2014.
• Pistol Grip (Ben Roberts-Smith VC) is a larger-than-life-sized depiction of Roberts-Smith, camouflage arms outstretched, mimicking the action of holding a pistol.

Moral and ethical ambiguity

• In 1992, the Canadian Airborne Regiment was deployed as peacekeepers to Somalia.
• In 1993, 16-year-old Shidane Arone was found hiding in the Canadian base, believed to have been stealing supplies.
• Master Corporal Clayton Matchee and his subordinate Private Kyle Brown were charged with his murder and torture.
• It addresses an ethical grey area many soldiers face during active service when the hierarchy of command comes into direct conflict with conscience.

The complexity of contemporary art

• Brandon’s curatorial decision to display Kearns’s Somalia paintings strike at the heart of what is special and important about contemporary war art in a national museum.
• Contemporary art presents ethical and moral complexity, grey zones and a range of perspectives.
• The portraits should be displayed in ways that address this complexity, capturing the evolving story of Roberts-Smith in explanatory wall text.
• The most compelling contemporary art works – and the most valuable museum displays in our national institutions – are those that consider our complex stories, raise important and self-reflective questions, and challenge simplistic narratives.

• GATINEAU, QC, Dec. 5, 2022 /CNW/ -Today, the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage, announced the appointment of Caroline Dromaguet as Director and CEO of the Canadian Museum of History for a five-year term.
• Ms. Dromaguet has been serving as Interim Director and CEO of the Canadian Museum of History since December2020.
• The Canadian Museum of History, which also operates the Canadian War Museum and the Virtual Museum of New France, is Canada's national museum of human history.
• "I would like to congratulate Ms. Dromaguet on her appointment as Director and CEO of the Canadian Museum of History.

• Today, Library and Archives Canada and the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, with the generous support of the Embassy of Belgium and the Canadian War Museum, mark the Canadian launch of the Names in the Landscape geoportal.
• The Names in the Landscape geoportal can be accessed, free of charge, on the website of the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 .
• "With Names in the Landscape, we want to strengthen the role of the landscape as a last witness.
• To date, the museum has identified the initial resting places for more than 1,400 of the 6,928 Canadian soldiers whose names appear on the Menin Gate Memorial.