Royal Alberta Museum

The Royal Alberta Museum is a Canadian museum in Edmonton, capital of the province of Alberta. It was called up to the visit of Queen Elizabeth II on 24 May 2005 Provincial Museum of Alberta, was opened on 6 December 1967.

In the first year recorded 314,000 visitors the museum. It was created on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Canada and was launched by the Confederation Centennial Memorial Program and the Government of the Province to life. The first plans date back to the 1950s, but only in 1962, the project received a conductor. The Australian Raymond O. Harrison in 1964 entrusted with this task and equipped with $ 5,000,000. 1969 supported the Museum, the Museum Advisory Program which later emerged Alberta Museum, an institution that promotes the development of museums in Alberta. Only since 1990 admission charges to the museum.

1989-2001 a program of more than 175 excellent traveling exhibitions ( featured exhibitions ) was performed. In 1997, the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture, Wild Alberta was created in 2003. During this period, 13 different programs: Botany, Geology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Zoology, Mammals, Ornithology, Environment and Paleontology of the Quaternary, archeology, ethnology, cultural studies, history of the military and the politics and history of western Canada. 60,000 students take part in programs. This requires a separate Museum School ( School Museum ) was founded.

Priorities of oriented history museum are natural history, history of First Nations and history since the immigration of Europeans. The floors offer, the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture, which presents the history of the Indians in the province, Wild Alberta, one floor, which has included dioramas of the former Habitat Gallery and the Natural History Gallery, which deals with the geological history. Special exhibitions, like the hummingbirds of America are carried out since 1968.

The Syncrude Gallery offers some 3,000 artifacts. In an oversized tepee lectures will be held and storyteller occur. One section is devoted to the attempt by the Canadian government to wipe out the cultures of the Indians, and another to the healing and recovery attempts.

Wild Alberta has set itself the goal to clarify ecological relationships and interactions, and forms in this sector also. Since 2007, a partnership with the Forest Resource Improvement Association of Alberta ( FRIAA ) and the Friends of Royal Alberta Museum Society.

The Natural History Gallery deals with the geological, but also with the biological history and present day Alberta.

Since mid-2007 created a newly designed museum, which is to be completed by 2011. This requires at least $ 200 million is estimated.