Canadian Museum of Nature
| Victoria Memorial Museum National Historic Site of Canada Lieu historique national du Canada du Musée-Commémoratif-Victoria |
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 Lieu patrimonial du Canada |
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| Recognized since | 1990 |
| Type | National Historic Site |
| ID | 4483 |
| place | Ottawa |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 24 '48.5 " N , 75 ° 41' 18.1" W |
| Recognized by | Canadian Federal Government |
| Approved by | Historic Sites and Monuments Act |
| Entry Canadian List of Monuments | |
The Canadian Museum of Nature (French Musée Canadien de la Nature ) is a state natural history museum in Ottawa (McLeod Street 240). The museum is also a research institute.
It was created in 1856 from collections of the Geological Survey of Canada . The museum building was built from 1905 to 1912 in neo-Gothic style by the architect David Ewart ( Victoria Memorial Museum Building ). The tower belonging to it had to be demolished in 1915 because it was built on an unstable Quickton . In 1968, the ethnology collection was separated from the original National Museum ( Canada's National Museum of History and Society in Gatineau ), and what was now the National Museum of Natural Sciences was later renamed the Canadian Museum of Nature. From 2004 to 2010 the museum was thoroughly renovated, including a glass structure ( Queen's Lantern ) above the entrance.
The museum houses (2010) over 10 million exhibits and collections. They have extensive zoological and botanical reference collections with, for example, 125,000 items from 2,600 species in the bird collection. The mineral and rock collection is one of the oldest in the museum with over 52,000 specimens.
It has a rich dinosaur collection with over 300 exhibits, three quarters of which are originals. Most of the dinosaurs come from Canada, where very rich sites have been discovered, but many also come from China . Among the dinosaurs on display are rare specimens such as the Tyrannosaurus-like Daspletosaurus , the Ceratopsian from the late Cretaceous Canada, Chasmosaurus, and the Sinornithosaurus , a small feathered predatory dinosaur from the early Cretaceous China. Also on display are the large Cretaceous sea turtle Archelon and the early whale Ambulocetus . An extinction gallery (in which the mass extinction caused by meteorite impacts on the Cretaceous / Tertiary border is shown) leads from the dinosaur department to the mammalian area.
Library
Affiliated is a library with 43,000 books and over 100,000 journal volumes (2010).
Web links
- Canadian Museum of Nature (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sometimes the style is referred to as Scottish baronal with regard to the architecture of many country estates of Scottish barons of the 19th century and stonemasons from Scotland were also involved in the construction.