Description of the attraction
Redpath Museum is a natural history museum in Montreal, Canada. The museum belongs to one of the oldest universities in Canada - McGill University and is located on the campus of the university.
The museum building was built in 1882 at the expense of the Canadian businessman and philanthropist Peter Redpath, in whose honor, in fact, the museum got its name. The basis of the museum's collection was a unique collection collected by the famous Canadian geologist William Dawson.
In the Redpath Museum you can get acquainted with the history of the evolution of life on earth in all its diversity. The excellent collection of the museum, whose exhibits are collected from all over the world, perfectly illustrate such fields of knowledge as ethnology, zoology, paleontology and mineralogy. The museum houses extensive collections of ancient and modern organisms, an impressive collection of minerals and a stunning collection of ethnological artifacts (over 17,000 from Africa, Ancient Egypt, Oceania, South America, Europe, etc.), and much more.
Among the most interesting and valuable exhibits of the museum collection, it is worth noting a huge skeleton of a Gorgosaurus, a fossilized skeleton of a limnoscelis (a primitive quadruped of the Late Carboniferous - Early Permian era), stuffed birds such as the Caroline parrot and Labrador eider, and, of course, Egyptian mummies.
The Redpath Museum is rightfully considered one of the best museums in Canada, and is also an important research and educational center and regularly holds various thematic lectures and seminars. Guided tours of the Redpath Museum are available in English and French. The museum exposition will undoubtedly be of interest to both adults and children.
