Re: Museum addresses

[John Rosloot <john@cs.uregina.ca>]

>From: chartiem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Chartier Michel)
>
>       A friend of mine is working on a list of the major museums in
>Canada and the northeastern US (and some others). What we need are the
>complete addresses (and phone numbers, if possible) of these institutions.
>Here they are:
>
>In Canada:
>-Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton

Provincial Museum of Alberta
12845 102nd Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (guess you knew that part though :)
Phone: 403-427-1786 or 403-453-9100

>Plus, we need addresses for natural history museums in British Columbia
>(if there are any).

There are indeed. The most prominent is the:

Royal British Columbia Museum
675 Belleville Street
Victoria, B.C., Canada
Phone: 604-387-3701

The Vancouver Museum also lists natural history exhibits, but though I've been
to Vancouver I don't recall visiting the museum there.

By the way, though you don't mention them above I assume your list includes
the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and The Royal
Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta (which is the finest paleontological
museum I've ever seen, in my humble opinion). And of course the Royal Ontario
Museum in Toronto. There's another nice one in Ottawa; can't recall the name.

I also hope it includes the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History at 2445
Albert Street (phone 306-787-2815) in my own town of Regina, Saskatchewan.
Despite it's somewhat small size, I'm quite proud of our local museum,
especially since we're not a particularly large city (about 180,000 people;
heck the whole *province* only has about a million). The Earth Sciences
Gallery (devoted to the geological and paleontological history of the
province) was completely redone a few years back, and I think they did
an excellent job (again, in my humble opinion). They've also added a whole
new gallery on native history and culture, and are currently in the process
of remodelling the Life Sciences Gallery, due for completion in I think 1996
(the scale model they have on display looks excellent; I'm really looking
forward to visiting the real thing).

John Rosloot
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
john@cs.uregina.ca