The Museum
The Canada Agriculture Museum is located on the Central Experimental Farm. It consists of Museum exhibits, a working dairy barn, a small animal barn which features sheep, goats, pigs, chickens and rabbits and the horse and cattle barn.

History
The barn in which the exhibits are located was built in 1914 at a cost of $12,000. It replaced the original dairy barn that was built in 1891 and burnt down in 1913. The first floor housed the dairy herd, while the second floor housed the feed mill used by the Animal Research Institute for animal nutrition research until 1979. It was converted into a museum in 1983 by the National Museum of Science and Technology Corporation (now the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation). As of 1995, the exhibits and the animals are managed by the National Museum of Science and Technology Corporation (now the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation).

About the Canada Agriculture Museum
The Canada Agriculture Museum is a unique combination of a modern working farm and a museum. They are located on a five acre site on Ottawa's Central Experimental Farm, a 1,052 acre farm that has been designated a national historic site. There are exhibits, special events, school programs and demonstrations all offered on-site. Through the exhibits and programs, the museum’s aim is to show a mainly urban audience where people get their food, fibre and other agricultural products and the role of science and technology in agriculture. They strive to display and interpret a variety of breeds of farm animals, including modern commercial breeds as well as rare and historic breeds.