Redpath Museum

Montreal ( Montréal )

The Redpath Museum is a museum of natural history belonging to McGill University. It was built in 1882 as a gift from the sugar baron Peter Redpath. It houses collections of interest to ethnology, biology, paleontology, and mineralogy/geology. The collections were started by some of the same individuals who founded the Smithsonian and Royal Ontario Museum collections.

It is the oldest building built specifically to be a museum in Canada. Research at the museum is focused on evolution, from working out the details of the 3,5 billion year history of life on the planet to examining how creatures and systems are changing today.

Exhibits at the museum are found on all three floors and focus on natural history, world cultures (ethnology), and mineralogy. Popular specimens include dinosaurs, shells, mummies and a wide variety of Quebec minerals. A robust public programme includes activities such as documentary films, public lectures, Sunday discovery workshops for children and tours inside and outside of the museum.

The museum is in downtown Montreal on the McGill University campus:
859 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C4


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Categories: Attractions, Museums and historic sites

Card created: 02/2014 (last modified: 02/2014)

Website: https://www.mcgill.ca/redpath/

GPS coordinates: 45°30'16.1"N, 73°34'39.31"W

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(last modified: 02/2014)