A peek inside Western Canada’s largest museum
Opened in late 2018, the Royal Alberta Museum is the largest museum in Western Canada, housing both the human history and natural history of Alberta. The design, completed by DIALOG, aims to create a fully-accessible museum that is sustainable and contributes to a vibrant downtown.
The Royal Alberta Museum, designed by DIALOG.
The museum has been preserving, collecting and displaying the province?s history for over 50 years. After outgrowing their original home in west-central Edmonton, the Government of Alberta made the decision to move the Royal Alberta Museum to a new location in downtown Edmonton. The blank canvas in the heart of the city presented a unique opportunity to create a perfectly-suited facility with more space for displays, growing collections, and state of the art research labs. The museum includes several exterior courtyards.
The design creates a dynamic weaving of interior and exterior spaces. Nature is brought into the building through the gardens and terraces, and the building extends out into the landscape. The project scope includes 8,200 net square meters of natural history and human history long-term exhibition galleries, a children?s gallery and bug room, 4,300 net square meters of curatorial, research and collection spaces, a 1,100 square meter feature gallery and associated support space, totalling 22,000 net square meters.
View of the museum at dusk.
The Royal Alberta Museum project was tendered as a fast-track design-build competition. To be...
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