Directorate
Description: Information pertaining to the Office of the President and Chief Executive Officer, and of the Corporate Secretariat and Strategic Planning, Audit and Evaluation, and Access to Information and Privacy.
Document Types: Policy; planning of programs; internal audits and evaluations of programmes; and, Access to Information and Privacy requests.
Record Number: CMCC-1000

Governance and Management
Description: Information pertaining to the Board of Trustees and of the CMCC Executive Committee, internal audits and evaluation, and Strategic Planning.
Document Types: Policy; planning of programs; internal audits and evaluations of programs.
Record Number: CMCC-1000

Exhibitions and Programs Branch – Exhibitions
Description: Information on permanent, travelling, special and temporary Exhibitions.
Document Types: Policy; exhibit planning; insurance; publicity; films, texts, labels; travelling Exhibitions; special and temporary Exhibitions.
Record Number: CMCC-5000/ 5500/ 6000

Canadian Children's Museum – Exhibitions
Description: Information on permanent, travelling and special exhibitions.
Document Types: Policy; exhibit planning; proposed exhibitions.
Record Number: CMCC-CCM-6000

Canadian Postal Museum – Exhibitions
Description: Information on permanent, travelling and special exhibitions.
Document Types: Policy; exhibit planning; proposed exhibitions.
Record Number: CMCC-CPM-5000

Public Programs – Research
Description: Research on artefacts and collections for the benefit of government and the general public.
Document Types: Research policy.
Record Number: CMCC-5500 / 6500

Research and Collections Branch

Archaeology and History – Research-Exhibitions
Description: Information on permanent, travelling and special exhibitions.
Document Types: Policy; exhibit planning; proposed exhibitions; travelling exhibitions.
Record Number: CMCC-6500

Ethnology and Cultural Studies – Research-Exhibitions
Description: Information on permanent, travelling and special exhibitions.
Document Types: Policy; exhibit planning; proposed exhibitions; permanent exhibitions; temporary exhibitions; musical instruments.
Record Number: CMCC-6500

Collection, Conservation and Display Services – Exhibitions
Description: Information pertaining to condition of artefacts; design of spaces and modules for exhibitions; storage facilities requirements for collections.
Document Types: Policy; condition reports.
Record Number: CMCC-7000

Library, Archives and Documentation Services – Research- Exhibitions
Description: Documentation of collections and materials; loans and reproductions.
Document Types: Policy, books and periodicals, microfiche; microfilm; photographic collection; AV collection; manuscripts; field notes and reports; artefact documentation; licensing; digitization.
Record Number: CMCC-7500

Collections and Acquisitions
Description: Information on artefacts and their acquisition through purchases, gifts, donations and exchanges.
Document Types: Policy; procedures; gifts and donations; plans and reports; purchases; disposition; offer to museum to purchase; enquiries about artefacts; inventories; statistics.
Record Number: CMCC-7000

Conservation
Description: Information on the Conservation of artefacts to ensure their preservation for future use and research.
Document Types: Policy; casts and replicas; condition reports; storage; research on deterioration of artefacts due to poor environmental conditions of buildings.
Record Number: CMCC-7000

Loans
Description: Information on incoming and outgoing Loans for exhibitions.
Document Types: Policy; requests for Loans; lists of forthcoming Loans; approvals or rejections; condition reports; insurance; Loans to other museums.
Record Number: CMCC-7000

Publications
Description: Research Publications and manuscripts, photographic and audio-visual material and other miscellaneous Publications, unpublished documents.
Document Types: Policy; permission to publish; Canadian Museum of Civilization Publications; Canadian War Museum Publications; exhibition catalogues; licensing and copyright; Bulletins; Mercury series.
Record Number: CMCC-7500

Research
Description: Research on artefacts or the collection of artefacts for the benefit of government and the general public as well as historical Research for the preparation of exhibition storylines, educational programming and publications.
Document Types: Policy; material Research; Research proposals; reports of completed Research projects; anthropology; ethnology; archaeology; folklore; material culture; history; Canadian Postal Museum; Canadian Children's Museum; Canadian War Museum.
Record Number: CMCC-6500

Canadian War Museum (CWM)

Exhibitions
Description: Information on permanent, special and travelling Exhibitions.
Document Types: Policy; planning and openings; texts; security; permanent galleries; proposed Exhibitions; special and travelling Exhibitions and five history presentations.
Record Number: CMCC-CWM-5000 / 5500 / 6000