Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre is a small, volunteer supported museum in the Saskatchewan hamlet of Herschel. Herschel is located 150 km southwest of Saskatoon and 35 km northwest of Rosetown in the Eagle Creek valley. The centre resides in the former elementary school which closed in 1993. The museum is seasonal, though winter viewings are … Read more
Manuels River is a multi-purpose event facility housing a museum dedicated to the spectacularly preserved trilobites preserved in the canyon walls of Manuels River. It is located in Conception Bay South just 20 km west of downtown St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. Naming is admittedly a bit confusing. The museum opened in 2013 as the … Read more
The Fortune Head Geology Centre is a modest, volunteer run museum in the town of Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located in the town’s tourist information building at the docks where the ferry to St. Pierre and Miquelon comes and goes. The museum is seasonal, and being reliant on volunteer support, the season start … Read more
The Pacific Museum of Earth is a hidden gem focused solely on the Earth Sciences. It is found on the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in downtown Vancouver. Exhibits are located in both the Earth and Ocean Sciences Main Building and Earth Sciences Building located along the Main Mall. The museum, UBC’s first, was … Read more
The Royal Saskatchewan Museum is the first museum established in the province of Saskatchewan and the first provincial museum on the prairies. It is located on a lovely green space backing onto Wascana Lake in central Regina just north of the Saskatchewan Legislature. The museum was founded in 1906 a year after the province itself … Read more
The Royal Alberta Museum is the largest museum in western Canada. It is located in a fancy, new (2018 opening) 419 square foot home a couple blocks east of Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton. The museum was established in 1967 with the goal to “collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit objects and specimens related to the … Read more
British Columbia isn’t the first province that comes to mind when talking dinosaurs in Canada, but Alberta’s western neighbour is not void of the “monstrous lizards.” Evidence of their presence in BC is on display at the Tumbler Ridge Museum. Tumbler Ridge is a modest town in the Rocky Mountain foothills. It’s a bit isolated … Read more
The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada’s national natural history museum. Located in downtown Ottawa, approximately 2 km southeast of Parliament Hill, this is a must see for anyone visiting the nation’s capital. The museum opened to the public in 1912 but has a history dating back to 1856 as part of the Geological Survey … Read more
The Philip J. Currie Museum is the new kid on the block when it comes to Alberta dinosaur museums. Named after renowned Canadian palaeontologist Philip Currie, the museum is a younger cousin to the famed Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. Mr. Currie was an important founder of the Royal Tyrrell and his namesake museum aims … Read more
The T. Rex Discovery Centre is home to Scotty, the T. Rex who was found in the nearby Frenchman River Valley by the town’s high school principal. Scotty is often referred to as the largest T. Rex discovered globally and is the largest of any dinosaur discovered in Canada. An extension of the Royal Saskatchewan … Read more