Royal Alberta Museum
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is the home of the Royal
Alberta Museum that houses some outstanding exhibits that include;
an arachnology collection, wildlife exhibit, entomology collection
and exhibit, Native Culture display, along with rotating galleries
that also host in house exhibits created by the curators and
travelling displays. The museum's three permanent galleries that
house Wild Alberta, Natural History and Syncrude Gallery of
Aboriginal culture. The Wild Alberta gallery houses dioramas that
showcase Alberta native animals set up in copies of natural
habitats, as well as informing visitors about the ecosystems of the
province and how people, microorganisms and animals interact. The
Syncrude gallery looks at the history of North American aboriginals
with more than 3000 relics that span more than 11,000 years of
history, from the last ice age to the present, along with aboriginal
culture, settlements and livelihood. The James Carnegie collection
that was acquired by the museum from Sotheby's in 2006 was billed as
the most important auction of North American Indian relics to date,
that includes a rare prized beaded dress that was made in 1859, and
cost $497,600. Their natural gallery houses the well known and liked
Bug Room where you can view some of the world's biggest bugs, along
with a space devoted to the vegetation of the province and the birds
that call this region home. The entrance to the gallery contains a
huge geology display that contains spectacular rocks and gems, as
well as a collection of rocks that are part of the landscape of the
province. Just last month, April, 2011, the museum announced plans
to construct a new building for the museum that is to be located
downtown, and north of the city hall and courts. The new structure
will house 390,000 square feet of gallery space and should be ready
by 2015.
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