Museum. As a result of the closure of the Public Archive's history museum, the Public Archives began to regularly transfer archival documents to the war museum. In 1982, the museum's archival collection was reorganized into several categories, souvenirs, museum, manuscripts, maps, plans and blueprints, and Canadian War Museum records. The Military History Research Centre's oral history archive contained nearly 400 interviews in 2007. The oral history collection was started by the museum in 1999. The program devised topic lists to guide interviews toward certain areas of interest; although the framing of the topics is designed to allow for in-depth conversation, one free of bias. Interviews were either conducted by the museum's research team, or ex-military officers and averaged 90 minutes in length. Subjects of interviews include service members who served in the Second World War, United Nations Emergency Force, Canadian Forces Europe, Yugoslav Wars, and the War in Afghanistan. Specific subjects interviewed include Airborne Intercept Navigators in NATO and NORAD, deputy commanders of NORAD, and all former Canadian commanders of STANAVFORLANT. In 2000, the museum's photographic archives contained over 600 photograph collections or fonds; holding more than 17,000 individual photographs, and more than 250 photo albums. The collection was largely obtained through private sources, most of whom had taken the photo as participants in these conflicts. See also Lest We Forget Project List of museums in Ottawa National museums of Canada National War Memorial (Canada) Organization of Military Museums of Canada Victor Suthren, former director general of the museum Notes References Further reading External links Friends of the Canadian War Museum Buildings and structures completed in 2005 Cold War museums in Canada Cultural infrastructure completed in 2005 Military and war museums in Canada Museums established in 1942 Museums in Ottawa War Raymond Moriyama buildings Tank museums World War I museums in Canada War_Museum 1942 establishments in Ontario