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Birds" exhibit was built, including three new dioramas and a "Naturalist's Study". A temporary exhibit called "The Bug Room" in the summer of 1992 featured live insects, and it was so successful that the museum decided to bring it back as a larger and permanent component of the museum in 1993. A new permanent "Earth Science Gallery" was partially opened in December 1993, though not fully completed until the following May. Also in 1993, the museum launched the "In All Their Finery" exhibit of aboriginal artifacts as the first phase of the larger "Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture." The complete Syncrude gallery was inaugurated years later in November 1997. This gallery was later complemented with a large purchase from the family of
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between indigenous and European newcomers from 1680 to 1880), After buffalo (stories between 1859 and 1900 about resistance and resilience, suffering and hope in Alberta), Alberta forms ( stories from 1880s about Alberta becoming a province, looking into economics, culture, spiritual beliefs and political beliefs), Alberta Transforms ( stories in post- 1945 Alberta, oil, population growth, arts archaic attitudes towards healthcare and the awakening of equal rights), What makes us strong (the sharing of knowledge and values of Alberta's various indigenous communities).
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metres (419,000 sq ft). The museum features expansive galleries chronicling Alberta's natural and cultural worlds, a feature gallery showcasing travelling exhibitions from Canada and around the world, an interactive, 650 square metres (7,000 sq ft) dedicated children's gallery, and a bigger bug room with live invertebrates and visible nursery. The total cost of the new building and moving is estimated around
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Natural History hall: This Hall contains a collection of dioramas, fossils, animals and plants that represents Alberta's wildlife. this hall contains four main sections: Ice Age Alberta (plants and animals that lived in Alberta 1000 years ago), Ancient Alberta (Alberta's rocky mountains formations,
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Construction of the new building was completed on August 16, 2016, and the opening date of October 3, 2018, was announced on September 12, 2018. The new building is the largest museum in western Canada with more than 7,600 square metres (82,000 sq ft) of exhibition space and 38,900 square
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Paid admission began in 1990, and to increase its audience the ground floor Indian Gallery was removed and the space used for feature exhibition space. In 1991, the mammal and bird gallery was upgraded with a display on "Survival and Reproduction", and the following year the "Beauty and Science of
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Natural History Gallery: This gallery was home to the popular "Bug Room", where some of the world's largest bugs are on display. The gallery also boasted an area dedicated to the vegetation of Alberta as well as the birds that make Alberta home. The entrance to the gallery housed a large geology
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Human history hall: This Hall shares the History of Alberta's past and its people. This hall contains six sections which includes: Ancestral Lands ( history, lifestyles of indigenous people who have lived in parts of Alberta), Worlds meet (multiple perspectives of cultural and economics exchange
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The museum features expansive galleries chronicling Alberta's natural and cultural worlds, a feature gallery showcasing travelling exhibitions from Canada and around the world, an interactive, 650 square metres (7,000 sq ft) dedicated children's gallery, and a bug room with live
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Bug Gallery: This gallery displays insects, spiders and other invertebrates from both Alberta and the world. This galleries contains stories such as: What is an invertebrate, Metamorphosis, Ambush predators, Finding a mate, Reef Conservation, Social Insects, Warning colours, Freshwater
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family were added to that natural history gallery, and displays of "Domestic Artifacts of Utility", the history of Indigenous peoples (including a display of Blackfoot clothing), and new agricultural artifacts were added to the human history gallery. The same year, a diorama of
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In the late summer/fall of 1982, the provincial museum's palaeontology program, including many of the program's staff and collection, was split from the museum by the provincial government. The palaeontology program was spun off in order to facilitate the establishment of the
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Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture: This gallery explored the history of North American Aboriginals with over 3000 artifacts spanning 11,000 years of history. It started with the time of the last ice age, and explored aboriginal settlement, livelihood and
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Wild Alberta Gallery: This gallery contained dioramas, which showed Alberta animals in replicated natural habitats. The gallery also gave visitors information on the ecosystems of Alberta and how animals, microorganisms and humans interact in the
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auction on 8 May 2006. The sale of the "James Carnegie Collection" was billed as the most significant auction of North American Indian artifacts to date, including a prized beaded dress collected in 1859 which cost US$ 497,600.
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until it was closed to the public in December 2015. Although the museum was closed to the public, a number of its departments continued to operate, either preparing the museum's collection for the move, or conducting
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Children Gallery: This gallery is an environment made for younger visitors to engage, play and learn. Containing sections such as Alberta Naturally, Dig pit, Toddler Area, Chautauqua, Makerspace, Community
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Currie, Philip J.; Koppelhus, Eva B. (2015). "The significance of the theropod collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to our understanding of Late Cretaceous theropod diversity".
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Human History: Ethnology, Cultural Studies (formerly Folk Life), Military and Political History (formerly Government History) and Western Canadian History – 137,610 objects
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The museum opened to the public December 6, 1967 as the Provincial Museum of Alberta. On opening day, the museum's main floor featured galleries presenting the
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In 2003, the Habitat Gallery was greatly renovated into a new "Wild Alberta" interactive exhibit. From 2002 to 2006, the Royal Alberta Museum hosted the
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began planning for a museum in 1950. In 1962, they hired Raymond O. Harrison, an Australian architect who had been involved in the design of the
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visited, bestowing royal patronage. On December 6, 2015, the museum closed down 48 years after its opening in 1967 to move to a new location.
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with more than 7,600 square metres (82,000 sq ft) exhibition space and 38,900 square metres (419,000 sq ft) in total.
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to direct the planned museum. Harrison was given 5 million dollars to house and staff the museum as well as to build the collections.
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Collections Services: Collections Management, Conservation, Information Resource Management, Resource Library – 70,103 objects
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Life Science: Botany, Ichthyology/Herpetology, Invertebrate Zoology, Mammalogy and Ornithology Program – 577,745 objects
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Changing exhibition: This Gallery display allows visitors to engage in Alberta's history and contemporary stories.
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and the Alberta government have said that the location of the new building could be used for the terminal of an
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exhibit containing gems and rocks, as well as a collection of the rocks that make up the landscape of Alberta.
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Feature Gallery: This gallery is a limited time featured Gallery that is displayed for a short period of time
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Earth Science: Archaeology, Geology, Quaternary Paleontology, and Quaternary Environments – 9,224,075 objects
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Between 1989 and 2001, 175 travelling exhibitions were displayed at the museum. Some of which include:
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In April 2011, it was announced that a new building for the Royal Alberta Museum would be built in
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The following were galleries operated by the Royal Alberta Museum when it was located in Glenora:
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Mari Sasano, “The Museum Wants You To Think Big. Really Big”, Edmonton Journal, August 25, 2006
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Mike Berezowsky, “Sculpture Exhibit Gets a Big Response”, Edmonton Examiner, September 11, 2002
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was created as the first of sixteen planned displays of Alberta's natural habitat.
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Gilbert Bouchard, “Bianca Khan's One-Tonne Challenge”, Edmonton Journal, July 23.
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Gilbert Bouchard, “Come to Expect ‘Big Things’”, Edmonton Journal, July 19, 2002
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produced the RAM's Alberta Centennial Sculpture Exhibition, and on 24 May 2005,
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The following are current galleries operated by the Royal Alberta Museum:
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The original Royal Alberta Museum was situated in the neighbourhood of
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Erik Floren, “Big Impressions”, The Edmonton Sunday Sun, July 28, 2002
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Gardner, James D.; Henderson, Donald M.; Therrien, François (2015).
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Lobby of the new building several days after opening, October 2018
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View of the Human History hall, a gallery that showcases the
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The collections are divided into four main categories:
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Edmonton City Hall with the CN Tower in the background
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The Royal Alberta Museum located in downtown Edmonton
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RAM is spelled in red capital letters, with a brown mammoth under the A.

Royal Alberta Museum is located in Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton
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Coordinates
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