Canadian Museum of Nature
| Canadian Museum of Nature | |
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| Victoria Memorial Museum Building | |
The Victoria Memorial Museum Building
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| General information | |
| Type | Museum |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival, Scottish baronial. |
| Location | 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 45°24′46″N 75°41′20″W / 45.41266°N 75.68875°WCoordinates: 45°24′46″N 75°41′20″W / 45.41266°N 75.68875°W |
| Current tenants | Canadian Museum of Nature |
| Construction started | 1905 |
| Completed | 1912 |
| Owner | Government of Canada |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | David Ewart |
| Official name | Victoria Memorial Museum Building |
| Designated | 1990 |
The Canadian Museum of Nature (French: Musée canadien de la nature) is Canada's national natural history and natural sciences museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its four main collections, which were started by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1856 and now include ca. 14.6 million specimens, include Botany, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology.
The Museum is affiliated with the Canadian Museums Association, the Canadian Heritage Information Network, the Alliance of Arctic Natural History Museums, the Alliance of Natural History Museums of Canada and the Virtual Museum of Canada.
The exhibits and main programmes are housed in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building in Ottawa, at the museums public engagement campus.
The museum has eight permanent galleries:
The Canada Goose Arctic Gallery -- a new permanent gallery -- will open in June, 2017. The goal of this gallery is to enhance and transform people’s understanding of the Arctic and its importance to Canada in the 21st century.
Collections-based scientific research has been a core component of the museum since its inception. Today, research at the museum is focused in two cross-disciplinary centres of expertise: the Centre for Species Discovery and Change and the Centre for Arctic Knowledge and Exploration.
Each of the museum's four main collections have several subcollections:
From 1972-2005 the museum published the scientific journal Syllogeus [url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/51992#/summary].
The Natural Heritage Campus in Gatineau, Quebec, opened in 1997. It is the 76 hectare site of the museum's administrative operations and its extensive research and collections facility. The campus is not open to the public except for an annual Open House that showcases its 14.6 million specimens, its research labs and its fossil preparation facility. The library, however, does allow visitors.
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