Royal Alberta Museum

The Royal Alberta Museum in downtown Edmonton is western Canada’s largest museum, bringing Alberta’s natural environment, cultural history, and travelling exhibitions together under one roof. Established by the Government of Alberta in 1967 after years of planning, it opened with exhibits on the fur trade, Indigenous peoples, agriculture, pioneer life, and industry, then expanded into natural history displays and broader curatorial programs. Its development included the separation of its palaeontology program in the early 1980s, the adoption of paid admission in 1990, and the addition of the popular Bug Room in the early 1990s. Renamed after receiving royal patronage in 2005, it moved from Glenora to a new downtown building that opened in 2018.

Alberta · Canada