Remington Carriage Museum
 Location in Alberta
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| Established | 1993 |
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| Location | Cardston, Alberta, Canada |
| Coordinates | 49°11′39″N 113°18′07″W / 49.19420°N 113.30204°W |
| Type | horse-drawn transportation |
| Website | www.remingtoncarriagemuseum.com |
The Remington Carriage Museum is located in Cardston, Alberta, Canada. Opened in 1993, and the largest of its kind in the world, the Remington Carriage Museum displays more than 240 carriages.
Rated "The Best Indoor Attraction in Canada" four times by Attractions Canada, the 64,000 sq ft (5,900 m2). museum has a working stable, carriage rides, video displays, wedding rooms, an 80-seat theatre, Victorian gift shop and restaurant.
The main exhibit gallery at the museum is arranged in a series of vignettes. Each tells a story of late 19th and early 20th century North American society and the horse-drawn vehicles that were used. In each area, the coaches carts and sleighs displayed are accompanied by panels providing information with hundreds of archival photographs.
In the Carriage Preservation Workshop, the public is invited to watch expert technicians carry out the art of blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, woodworking, metalworking and finishing.
An elegant outdoor equestrian eventing program is also featured at the museum.
Don Remington (1914–1987), the man behind the Remington Museum, was a land owner, cattle rancher, developer, bridge builder and philanthropist.
For 35 years, Don Remington and his wife Afton travelled across North America, Britain and the world to obtain then ship carriages back to restore.
Don Remington himself was a coach-builder, carriage restorer and coach, carriage and sleigh historian and it is with first-hand knowledge that he restored the carriages in his collection. Many of the carriages in the Remington Museum were used in his lifetime.
Remington served on the Board of Directors for the American Carriage Association, of which he was a lifetime member.
Remington carriages have transported kings, queens, princes with their princesses, dukes and duchesses, earls, countesses, marquesses, lords and ladies, presidents and world heads of state. Celebrities worldwide have found themselves behind the reins of a Remington carriage. Remington Carriages were a part of the world-famous Calgary Stampede and the 1988 Winter Olympic Games. Calgary Heritage Park Days and Spruce Meadows International Equestrian Horse Shows often feature the Remington collection. Remington carriages have attended hundreds of parades worldwide.
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