This educational and research facility affiliated with the University of Western Ontario displays materials and artifacts spanning 11,000 years of aboriginal history in Ontario; exhibits are aimed at school children with simplified placards and lots of hands-on opportunities. Next door is the Lawson archaeological site, a 500-year-old precontact Neutral Iroquoian village, with a re-created longhouse. Located 9km from downtown London.
Museum of Ontario Archaeology
Southwestern Ontario
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