The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada's national natural history and natural science museum. It promotes awareness of Canada's natural heritage through permanent and travelling exhibitions, public education programmes, active scientific research, and the maintenance of a 10-million-specimen collection. A Crown corporation, the Canadian Museum of Nature includes the public museum building in downtown Ottawa as well as a research and collections facility in Gatineau, Quebec. The historic museum building, which has been undergoing a major, five-year renovation, will be fully complete in 2010. New galleries will include a Water Gallery which will explore the diversity of life on our blue planet and the critical role that water plays in sustaining all living things.