Kluane Museum of Natural History
The Kluane Museum of Natural History is one in Burwash Landing in the Canadian Yukon -based museum. His focus is on the natural history of the territory with the collection areas First Nations and natural history
In around 70 dioramas, animals and plants from the region are exhibited in the museum, as well as equipment, weapons and clothing from the southern Tutchone , which includes the local Kluane First Nation, which lives in the area on the 70 km long Kluane Lake . Handicraft products are offered in the entrance area. The largest gold pan in the Yukon can also be viewed there. One of the wall paintings is from Father Fred O'Brian, a Catholic missionary. There are also regular film screenings about the Yukon and Alaska .
Emergence
The starting point for planning the building was Yukon College in Whitehorse . Konrad Domes and his students planned a church, and the local Kluane First Nation built the building in 1974. But the building was too big for the small Catholic community.
Father Huijbers asked the local museum society if they wanted to take over the building for their planned museum. The society only had exhibition space in the Burlbilly Cabin, which Arnold Allinger had built in 1958. However, the log cabin was very small. Jack Gwartney, actually hired for the compressor station for the pipeline along the Alaska Highway at Mile 1128, but above all his wife Jean, were the driving force behind the Kluane Museum and Historical Society . In 1966 she opened her first exhibition in the Burlbilly blockhouse.
The museum society agreed to the takeover of the church and transferred its exhibits to the building that has now been rededicated. The Burlbilly Cabin, along with four other buildings, burned down in a forest fire in 1999.
The house is open from mid-May to mid-September.
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Coordinates: 61 ° 21 ′ 14.9 " N , 138 ° 59 ′ 51.2" W.