Location
Inside the main lobby of the Canadian War Museum
Memorializing
Memorial Hall is a space for quiet remembrance and personal contemplation.
Artist
Description
On Remembrance Day, at exactly 11 a.m., sunlight shines through a single window in Memorial Hall to frame the headstone representing Canada’s Unknown Soldier. His body lies at National War Memorial. At the former spot of his grave in Cabaret-Rouge cemetery in Souchez, France near Vimy Ridge, a bronze plaque has replaced the moved headstone.
Memorial Hall is intended to complement Regeneration Hall at the other end of the Museum. Muriyama designed the building on an axis which focuses on these two halls.
To Ponder
Why did Muriyama place the headstone so that it stands at 5’8”?
Ottawa Military Memorials Tour 