Banff Park Museum
The Banff Park Museum National Historic Site, located in downtown Banff, Alberta, is an exhibition space associated with Banff National Park. The oldest building maintained by Parks Canada, the museum was declared a National Historic Site of Canada in 1985 and was classified as historic structure the following year.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Reserve
- Description: natural history museum in Banff, Canada
- Also known as: “Banff Park Museum National Historic Site of Canada”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bow River Bridge and St George-in-the-Pines.
Bow River Bridge
Bridge
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The Bow River Bridge is a road bridge that spans the Bow River in Banff, Alberta. It was built in 1921 and is currently in use. The bridge is adorned with small stones from the river and locally sourced Rundle rock.
St George-in-the-Pines
Church
St George-in-the-Pines is an Anglican church in Banff, Alberta, called "one of Banff's oldest places of worship". The building was designed in the Gothic Revival style by English architect FP Oakley and the cornerstone was laid by Governor General the Lord Stanley of Preston in 1889.
Cave and Basin National Historic Site
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The Cave and Basin National Historic Site of Canada is located in the town of Banff, Alberta, within the Canadian Rocky Mountains, at the site of natural thermal mineral springs around which Canada's first national park, Banff National Park, was established.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Banff and Anthracite.
Banff
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The town of Banff in Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies, is the larger of the two populated areas in Banff National Park, about an hour and a half drive west of Calgary and four hours south of Jasper.
Anthracite
Locality
Anthracite is a ghost town located within Banff National Park in southern Alberta, Canada. It is named after the anthracite variety of coal. Anthracite is situated 6 km east of Banff Park Museum.
Banff Park Museum
- Categories: natural history museum and museum building
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Banff Park Museum” goes by many names.
- French: “Lieu historique national du Canada du Musée-du-Parc-Banff”
- French: “musée du Parc-Banff”
- French: “Musée du Parc-Banff”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Banff Park Museum”
- Norwegian: “Banff Park Museum”
- Russian: “Музей парка Банф”
- Spanish: “Museo Banff Park”
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