Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Natural history museum in Regina, Canada
The Royal Saskatchewan Museum is a natural history museum in Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, with galleries dedicated to Earth sciences, life sciences, and regional fossils. The building holds permanent collections covering topics from ancient geology to the plants and animals that have inhabited the province.
The museum was founded in 1906 as Saskatchewan's first provincial institution of its kind, growing over the following decades into a research and exhibition centre. Queen Elizabeth II granted it the royal designation in 1993, marking a formal recognition of its role.
The First Nations Gallery shows the traditions and knowledge of local Indigenous communities through exhibits developed together with those communities. The objects and explanations on display reflect how these peoples understand and pass on their own story.
Admission to the museum is free, making it easy to visit without planning ahead for costs. It is worth allowing several hours to move through the galleries without feeling rushed.
The museum is home to Scotty, a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton unearthed in Saskatchewan's Frenchman River Valley and among the largest of its kind on record. What many visitors do not know is that part of the research on this fossil was carried out directly within the museum's own facilities.
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