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The Old Museum Lives On

By Graham Young | Published: January 31, 2013

Winnipeg has a long and complicated history of museums featuring natural history collections. Our current museum was a centennial project, opened in 1970, but we are very fortunate that we possess vestiges of those earlier museums, such as minerals from the Carnegie Library collection and mounted animals from some of the early taxidermists. The most visible and best-documented of these “inheritances” are pieces that were exhibited in the old…

Posted in Collections & Research, Exhibit, Geology & Paleontology | Also tagged fossils, paleontology, plesiosaur, skeleton, Tyndall Stone | Comments closed

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