Returned Indigenous items from Vatican unveiled at Canadian Museum of History – Kitchissippi Times
December 9, 2025
On Tuesday morning, a dozen Inuit items returned from the Vatican went on display at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec.
Items included a traditional Inuvialuit kayak, which is believed to be one of five built by hand over a century ago.
In total, 62 items from the Vatican arrived at Montreal’s airport on Sunday. Pope Leo XIV gifted the cultural artifacts that had been part of the Vatican Museums’ Anima Mundi collection to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in celebration of the Jubilee of Hope declared by Pope Francis.
