Osgoode Township Historical Society and Museum, 8.7 km from Metcalfe
With nothing inside Metcalfe’s neighbourhood outline, the list has 3 places within 5 km of its edge. Day-trippers head 29 km out to National Gallery of Canada.
Top of the list around Metcalfe
Each has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
The layout
The dashed line is Metcalfe’s neighbourhood outline; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · Statistics Canada 2021 outline
What sort of places
Every one of them is among museums or galleries.
Green: inside Metcalfe. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
Everything to see
Close and well known first. Provincial and city parks are on the Outdoors page instead.
Historic places in Metcalfe → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Metcalfe →
Bigger names, a drive away
Art galleryNational Gallery of Canada29 km northwest · 237K visitors a year (2014)
MuseumCarleton University25 km northwest
Big drawMuseumCanadian Museum of History29 km northwest · 1.3M visitors a year
MuseumCanada Science and Technology Museum22 km northwest · 348K visitors a year
MuseumCanadian Museum of Nature27 km northwest
MuseumCanadian War Museum29 km northwest
Big drawMuseumCanadian Children's Museum29 km northwest · 500K visitors a year
CastleRideau Hall and Landscaped Grounds29 km northwest
ChurchNotre-Dame Roman Catholic Basilica28 km northwest
MuseumCanada Aviation and Space Museum29 km northwest
MuseumBank of Canada Museum28 km northwest
MuseumHumanics Sanctuary and Sculpture Park32 km northPlaces well known beyond Metcalfe (Wikipedia articles in several languages, published visitor counts, or a Parks Canada property), close and famous first. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the town.
Metcalfe: questions and answers
What is there to see near Metcalfe?
Look just beyond Metcalfe: within 5 km are Keith M Boyd Museum and Russell Historical Society/Keith Boyd Museum, though none is inside it.
Is there a Parks Canada property near Metcalfe?
None on our list stands in Metcalfe or up to 5 km away.
What are the best-known days out near Metcalfe?
Further out, up to 40 km: Carleton University (25 km), Canadian Museum of History (29 km), Canada Science and Technology Museum (22 km), Canadian Museum of Nature (27 km).
How is this list made?
Four open sources feed it (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, ODCAF and the federal and Québec heritage registers), merged so each place appears once. Forts, houses, lighthouses and churches stay only with a sign they are open to visitors, and businesses such as hotels, restaurants and tour operators are left out. Every place is tied to the town by its 2021 outline, or by lying within 5 km of it.
Places to visit: Canada publishes no open tourism list, so this one is assembled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), Wikidata (CC0), Statistics Canada’s ODCAF museums and galleries (2020, Open Government Licence – Canada), the federal and Québec heritage registers and CPCAD’s national parks, and it reflects what mappers and editors have recorded. Forts, houses, lighthouses and churches count only with a sign that visitors are welcome. Places sit in each town’s 2021 census outline; visitor counts are Wikidata’s latest, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (12)
- National Gallery of Canada: Wladyslaw [Disk.], CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carleton University: Harleyd613, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Canadian Museum of History: Wojciech Dittwald, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Canada Science and Technology Museum: Ajadams94, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Canadian Museum of Nature: RealGrouchy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Canadian War Museum: Balcer~commonswiki, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Canadian Children's Museum: Wojciech Dittwald, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rideau Hall and Landscaped Grounds: Peregrine981, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Basilica: Daryl Mitchell from Saskatoon, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Canada Aviation and Space Museum: Ahunt at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bank of Canada Museum: Bank of Canada - Banque du Canada from Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Humanics Sanctuary and Sculpture Park: Dmitri Lytov, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).