Royal Alberta Museum

The Royal Alberta Museum is a museum of human and natural history in Downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, located north of City Hall. The museum is the largest in western Canada with more than 7,600 square metres exhibition space and 38,900 square metres in total.

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Type: Museum
Description: History museum in Edmonton, Alberta
Also known as: “Provincial Museum of Alberta” and “RAM”
Address: 9810 103A Avenue NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 0G2

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Art Gallery of Alberta and Edmonton City Hall.

Art Gallery of Alberta

Museum

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The Art Gallery of Alberta is an art museum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The museum occupies an 8,000 square metres building at Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton. Art Gallery of Alberta is situated 250 metres south of Royal Alberta Museum.

Edmonton City Hall

Town hall

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The Edmonton City Hall is the home of the municipal government of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Designed by Dub Architects, the building was completed in 1992. Edmonton City Hall is situated 200 metres south of Royal Alberta Museum.

Law Courts

Courthouse

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The Law Courts building is the main courthouse in the city of Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, Canada. It hosts hearings of the Provincial Court of Alberta, the Court of King's Bench of Alberta, and the Court of Appeal of Alberta. Law Courts is situated 170 metres south of Royal Alberta Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boyle Street and McCauley.

Boyle Street

Neighborhood

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Boyle Street is a neighbourhood located in central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, immediately east of the downtown core. The neighbourhood is bounded by Grierson Hill to Rowland Road until Alex Taylor Road and then Jasper Avenue east until 82 Street by the south…

McCauley

Neighborhood

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McCauley is an ethnically diverse inner city neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is named for Matthew McCauley, the first mayor of Edmonton, and is located just to the north east of the Downtown core.

Central Edmonton

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Central Edmonton is most densely urbanized and oldest area of Edmonton. The heart of Central Edmonton is the "Downtown Core": which is what locals call the central business district plus the areas immediately adjacent like the Government Centre and the Warehouse District.

Royal Alberta Museum

Categories: history museum, building, tourism, public building, and tourist attraction
Location: Edmonton, Edmonton Capital Region, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude

53.54716° or 53° 32′ 50″ north

Longitude

-113.48908° or 113° 29′ 21″ west

Levels

Wheelchair access

yes

Operator

Government of Alberta

Open location code

9558GGW6+V9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 324786162

OpenStreetMap feature

building=civic

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q2170950

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Japanese—“Royal Alberta Museum” goes by many names.

Armenian: “Արքայական Ալբերտա թանգարան”
Chinese: “皇亞博”
Chinese: “皇家亞伯達省立博物館”
Chinese: “皇家阿尔伯塔博物馆”
Chinese: “艾伯塔皇家博物馆”
Dutch: “Royal Alberta Museum”
French: “Musée provincial de l’Alberta”
French: “Musée royal de l’Alberta”
French: “Provincial Museum of Alberta”
German: “Provincial Museum of Alberta”
German: “Royal Alberta Museum”
Japanese: “アルバータ州立博物館”
Japanese: “ロイヤル・アルバータ博物館”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Provincial Court of Alberta and CN Tower.

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