Glenbow Museum

The Glenbow Museum is Western Canada's largest cultural institution and includes a museum, an art program, a library, and extensive archives. The museum houses displays that celebrate the diverse people and events that shaped the Canadian West, including a new gallery exploring Blackfoot history and culture. Other galleries showcase cultures from around the world.
Glenbow's art collection contains some 28,000 works which date primarily from the igth century to the present and the Library and Archives provide an excellent resource for learning more about the northwest quadrant of North America.

Telephone 403.268.4100 | glenbow@glenbow.org
www.glenbow.org

Museum of the Regiments

The Museum of the Regiments showcases the sights and sounds of Canada's Military history starting with the North West Mounted Police arrival in Alberta and following the journey of the men and women of the Canadian Forces spanning the globe. The Museum of the Regiments offers six galleries-five permanent and one temporary-encompassing 20,000 square feet. The stories are told using the latest technology in computers, sound, moving images, drama, touch, contextual exhibits and program facilitators.

Telephone 403.240.9723 | cdunit@telus.net www.museumoftheregiments.ca

Naval Museum of Alberta

Opened in 1988, it is Canada's second largest naval museum. The museum displays three restored Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) fighter aircrafts that once flew from the decks of the RCN's aircraft carriers. Other exhibits include collections of ship and aircraft models, and a variety of uniforms, badges, cap ribbons and other naval artifacts.

Telephone 403.242.0002 | www.navalmuseum.ab.ca

Nickle Arts Museum

Located on the University of Calgary campus, the Nickle Arts Museum offers one of the best exhibition spaces in Western Canada for Contemporary Art and Numismatics (coins). The Nickle has an established tradition for offering exciting exhibitions and informative programs.

Telephone 403.220.7234 | www.ucalgary.ca/~nickle

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology

The Royal Tyrrell Museum is a world class exhibition and research facility that shows how the earth and its inhabitants have developed during millions of years. Its mandate is to collect, conserve, research, display and interpret palaeontological history with special reference to Alberta's fossil heritage. Opened in 1985, the museum's building covers 11,200 sq. metres (120,000 sq. ft.) on an eight-hectare (2o-acre) site. It includes 4,400 sq. metres (4,700 sq. ft.) of display area and visitors can view fossil preparation through a laboratory window.
The Royal Tyrrell Museum is located a six-kilometre (four-mile) drive from Drumheller in Midland Provincial Park. Drumheller is 140 km (90 miles), northeast of Calgary. The trip to the Museum follows the North Dinosaur Trail (Highway 838)

www.tyrrellmuseum.com

Tsuu T'ina Culture Museum

Open year round, the Museum and archives preserves the culture and history of the Tsuu T'ina people for present and future generations. Artifacts in the museum represent the dedicated work of tribal elders and many other individuals from the Tsuu T'ina Nation and the non-native community.

Telephone 403.238.2677