Oil Sands Discovery Centre

Oil Sands Discovery Centre is a museum in Wood Buffalo, Northern Alberta, Alberta, which is located on Mackenzie Boulevard. Oil Sands Discovery Centre is situated near the hamlet Draper.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Draper and Fort McMurray.

Draper

Hamlet

Draper is an unincorporated community in northern Alberta, Canada within the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. It is located approximately 12 km southeast of Fort McMurray on the southern bank of the Clearwater River. Draper is situated 6 km east of Oil Sands Discovery Centre.

Fort McMurray

Photo: jasonwoodhead23, CC BY 2.0.

Fort McMurray is the largest community in the Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta. It lost its city status in 1995 when it merged with a large rural area to form the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and its fortunes have risen and fallen in lockstep with the price of Alberta crude oil; its structures were decimated by a May 2016 wildfire.

Oil Sands Discovery Centre

Type: Museum
Address: 515 Mackenzie Boulevard
Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Wood Buffalo, Northern Alberta, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude

56.6711° or 56° 40′ 16″ north

Longitude

-111.34608° or 111° 20′ 46″ west

Open location code

958CMMC3+CH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 192562522

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

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