RCMP Heritage Centre, Law enforcement museum at RCMP Academy Depot Division, Regina, Canada
The RCMP Heritage Centre is a 6,000-square-metre museum at the northeast end of RCMP Academy, Depot Division in Regina, Saskatchewan, south of Dewdney Avenue. Nick Milkovich Architects designed the C$40 million building with Arthur Erickson as design consultant; it opened in 2007. Concrete, glass, Tyndall stone and Manitoba limestone form a roof that rises and sinks into the land, 9.1 to 19.8 metres high, with 21 oval columns on the northeast exterior.
The collection traces back to the 1930s, when the Mounties began preserving their institutional history in a dedicated space. The current building opened in 2007 and gave the collection room to grow and be displayed properly.
The main gallery's permanent exhibition is divided into sections such as Creating a Mounted Police, Maintaining Law and Order in the West, Protecting the North and Serving all of Canada. A separate hall holds a rotating Feature Exhibition drawn from the collection, much of which came from the former RCMP Centennial Museum.
The centre stands south of Dewdney Avenue beside the "F" Division headquarters of the RCMP Academy, Depot Division, at the northeast end of the grounds. The building is entered from the Dewdney Avenue side, and its 124-seat theatre hosts lectures and film screenings. Because the academy is a working training site, check the centre's own opening arrangements before travelling out.
The building's roof was shaped to resemble windblown snow or the encampments of First Nations and North-West Mounted Police in the 19th century. Its northeast exterior carries 21 oval columns between 9 and 17 metres long, and the roof height ranges from 9.1 to 19.8 metres.
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