Royal Saskatchewan Museum

Name: Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Address: Royal Saskatchewan Museum 2445 Albert St College Ave. and Albert St, Regina, Regina, CA
Telephone: +13067872815

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The Royal Saskatchewan Museum is a natural history museum in Regina’s Wascana Centre, at Albert Street and College Avenue. Its exhibits explore Saskatchewan’s dinosaurs, natural history and Indigenous cultures.

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Why go

A life-size cast of Scotty fills the two-storey CN T. rex Gallery, which explores its injuries and the plants and animals that lived alongside it.
The First Nations Gallery explores Indigenous cultures, traditions, trade, treaties and communities across 10,000 years.
Sixteen life-size dioramas in the Life Sciences Gallery include a bear’s den, beaver lodge and snake hibernaculum.
The Earth Sciences Gallery explores Saskatchewan’s geological formation over two billion years.

Opening hours

Today09:30 – 17:00Show all

Monday09:30 – 17:00

Tuesday09:30 – 17:00

Wednesday09:30 – 17:00

Thursday09:30 – 17:00

Friday09:30 – 17:00

Saturday09:30 – 17:00

Sunday09:30 – 17:00

Know before you go What's inside With kids Tips for your visit

Know before you go

Food and drinks, including water, are not allowed in gallery spaces.

What's inside

The First Nations Gallery was developed with Indigenous Elders, researchers, students and community members.
The Life Sciences Gallery explains how life forms are interconnected and uses life-size dioramas to show Saskatchewan’s ecoregions and seasons.
The Earth Sciences Gallery covers Saskatchewan’s minerals and fossils.
In the Learning LAB, visitors can draw still lifes of taxidermy animals and other collection objects.

With kids

Strollers are permitted inside.
The museum features Megamunch, a half-size robotic T. rex.

Tips for your visit

The museum is open daily from 09:30 to 17:00.
The museum website offers a way to book a group visit.

Interesting facts3

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3.5 million
The collection contains more than 3.5 million objects, including archaeological artifacts, insects, fossils, birds and plants.
Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Wikipedia
Stolen more than a century earlier, the Sîpiskwêsîkan tipi cover was returned to Kawacatoose First Nation and is housed at the museum under shared stewardship.
Home of the World's Largest T. rex, Scotty. « Royal Saskatchewan Museum & T. rex Discovery Centre
The building occupies the site of the abandoned Chateau Qu'Appelle Hotel.
Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Wikipedia

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History

1906Founded in Regina as the Provincial Museum, it was Saskatchewan’s first museum and the first provincial museum in the Prairie provinces.
1912The Regina Cyclone destroyed much of the collection housed in the Provincial Legislative Building.
Second World WarThe collections were removed from public display during the war.
1944–1946The collections returned to the Normal School in 1944, and the museum reopened to the public in 1946.
1955Governor General Vincent Massey opened the current premises on May 16.

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1990A fire in the First Nations Gallery damaged the collection and closed the museum for four months.
1991The museum’s research team discovered Scotty in Saskatchewan’s Frenchman River Valley on August 16.
1993The First Nations Gallery opened on June 26. Queen Elizabeth II granted the museum royal patronage, and it adopted its current name that year.
2019A life-size cast of Scotty went on display in the CN T. rex Gallery on May 17.

How to get there

Parking2445 Albert Street, Regina, in Wascana Centre. Free public and bus parking is available on the west and south sides; enter through the south doors.

Accessibility

Gallery access Galleries can be reached by elevator or stairs.
Wheelchairs and sensory backpacks Wheelchairs can be borrowed and sensory backpacks signed out.
French and Cree text panels Some exhibits have text panels in French and Cree.

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Where

Royal Saskatchewan Museum 2445 Albert St College Ave. and Albert St, Regina

Website: royalsaskmuseum.ca/
Phone: +13067872815

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Questions and answers

What was the Royal Saskatchewan Museum established to preserve?

It was established to preserve natural history specimens and objects of historical and ethnological interest.

What research do the Royal Saskatchewan Museum’s collections support?

They support research on Saskatchewan’s natural history and Indigenous cultures.

Does the Royal Saskatchewan Museum offer programs?

Yes. The museum offers programs.

Which other site shares the Royal Saskatchewan Museum’s educational mission?

The T.rex Discovery Centre shares its aim of furthering understanding of Saskatchewan’s natural history and Indigenous cultures.

What is the purpose of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum’s Life Sciences Gallery?

It explains how life forms are interconnected.

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