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Natural History Galleries
Royal BC Museum Logos
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Natural History Galleries
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Image Name: RBCM-ForestScene.tif
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Forest Diorama, Natural History Gallery, RBCM.
This exhibit represents forests from five sites on the BC coast. It also depicts forests at different stages of development and growth. As you enter the forest area, you see forest scenes that would be visible as you travel across Vancouver Island, from the southern Strait of Georgia to the open Pacific Coast.
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Photo © Russ Heinl, Grizzly Bear, Natural History Gallery, RBCM.
In the coast forest diorama, a Grizzly Bear, BC's largest land predator, hunts for food in a forest stream. Nearly half of Canada's grizzly population lives in BC. Normally a solitary animal, the grizzly congregates alongside streams and rivers during the salmon spawn.
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River Otter in Cave, Natural History Gallery, RBCM.
River Otters are often seen in salt water, so may be confused with sea otters, which are larger and have longer bodies. River Otters swim face down with only their head visible, and have long guard hairs that give their coats a sleek look even when they are dry.
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Varied Thrush, Natural History Gallery, RBCM.
The Varied Thrush inhabits mostly coniferous forests, such as redwoods, Douglas fir, and spruce, but also inhabits some deciduous forests. This thrush loves shady, cool, and damp woodland areas, and can be found all throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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Living Land, Living Sea/Climate Change
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Living Land, Living Sea Gallery Entrance, RBCM.
This gallery takes visitors on a journey across time and through dramatically changing environments. In one visit, you will time-travel from lush tropical forests to ice-bound tundra, emerging in the present where you can hike through rainforest and to a spectacular rocky ocean shore.
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Exhibit Area, Living Land, Living Sea Gallery, RBCM.
Our Earth has experienced many different climates throughout history, though warm times have prevailed over cold times. In the Living Land Gallery, visitors can explore these stages of BC history, and see how the landscape changed with the ice-house climate of the Pleistocene Epoch.
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Woolly Mammoth, Living Land, Living Sea Gallery, RBCM.
These hairy elephants inhabited ice-free parts of northern North America, Europe, and Asia during the last glacial period. Mammoths were probably common in parts of BC during the advance and retreat of the glaciers, but became extinct as the climate warmed and people hunted them. |
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Photo © Russ Heinl, Woolly Mammoth with ice wall, Living Land, Living Sea Gallery, RBCM.
Herds of Woolly Mammoths roamed ice-free areas of northern North America, Europe and Asia about 25,000 to 12,000 years ago.
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Living Land, Living Sea/Ocean Station
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Ocean Station, Living Land, Living Sea Gallery, RBCM.
See BC’s coastal marine life via a Victorian-era "submarine" exhibit, just like Captain Nemo. Peer through portholes at kelp beds and watch live animals - sea stars, crabs, snails, anemones, limpets, sea slugs and small fish - in the central, 360-litre (95-gallon) aquarium; The temperature of the salt water in the tank is about 10°C, the average temperature of the waters around BC.
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Ocean Station, Living Land, Living Sea Gallery, RBCM.
View an undersea cliff through a floor-to-ceiling window. Some of the species include fish-eating anemones, blunt-tentacled anemones, copper rockfish, blood stars, purple sea stars, sea slugs, red sea urchins, green sea urchins, giant barnacles, solitary coral and California sea cucumbers. Find out more about undersea life and creatures by playing computer games and watching videos.
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Ocean Station, Living Land, Living Sea Gallery, RBCM.
Discover the secrets of the creatures kept in the specimen drawers. Use the microscopes to view specimens. Look at the seashells, skeletons, dry sea stars and crab shells in the drawers and read all about them in the marine-related books.
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Tremblay Homestead Exhibit, Modern History Gallery, RBCM.
The Tremblay family homestead exhibit depicts the harshness of pioneer farming in the Peace River District around 1912.
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Replica of the HMS Discovery, Modern History Gallery, RBCM.
A replica of the stern section of Captain George Vancouver's ship HMS Discovery (1792-1794) as it may have appeared during its stay in Nootka Sound. Launched in 1789, HMS Discovery measured 99 ft long and 28 ft wide and was constructed almost entirely from hard woods to withstand hurricanes. A 3-masted naval sloop, the ship carried 10 men and was armed with 10 four-pound cannons.
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Cornish Water Wheel, Modern History Gallery, RBCM.
This Cornish Water Wheel, built in Barkerville in 1862, was once used in the gold mines of BC. Water wheels pumped water from deep shafts, provided power for tools and hoisted items, such as buckets and workers, to the mine’s surface. |
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Panoramic View of the Old Town Street, Modern History Gallery, RBCM.
The old town exhibition is a recreation of a turn-of-the-century street, lined with shops of the day, a grand hotel with furnished rooms, functional movie theatre, train station, and an authentic Chinatown.
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Chinatown, Old Town, Modern History Gallery, RBCM.
The Chinese Herbs and Tailoring Shop in Old Town’s Chinatown boasts an assortment of authentic wares. Chinese medicine emphasized prevention – balancing two vital forces (ying and yang, or positive and negative) and the five interrelated elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water). |
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Sawmill Exhibit, Modern History Gallery, RBCM.
Recreation of the Robinson Sawmill, Rocky Mountain Trench (1889). Railroad construction from 1881-1917 had a strong impact on the lumber growing lumber industry – great quantities of lumber were needed for ties, trestles, and buildings, and completed rail lines moved interior wood products to Prairie markets and Coast timber to ocean ports.
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Corner View of the Old Town with Wheelbarrow, Modern History Gallery, RBCM.
The old town exhibition is a recreation of a turn-of-the-century street, lined with shops of the day, a grand hotel with furnished rooms, functional movie theatre, train station, and an authentic Chinatown.
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Haida Argillite Plate, First Peoples Gallery, RBCM.
Around 1880, Haida carvers began to make platters and plates decorated with traditional designs representing crest figures or scenes from Haida stories. This plate, in the style of the Haida artist Charles Edenshaw, represents Wasco (Sea Wolf) with a pair of killer whales on its back. (RBCM 15508)
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Kwakwaka'wakw Ceremonial Masks, First Peoples Gallery, RBCM.
These Kwakwaka'wakw masks made by Chief Nakap'ankam, Mungo Martin, represent the bird attendants of Baxwbakwalanuxwsiwe', the Cannibal-of-the-North-End-of-the-World. They were used in the Winter Ceremonials.
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Nisga’a Chief, First Peoples Gallery, RBCM. Detail.
A Nisga’a chief controlled the economic resources and ceremonial privileges of his family. He also handled potentially dangerous supernatural powers for the benefit of the community. The chief is shown in his role as Great Dancer. The ceremonial screen behind the figure in this image was returned to the Nisga'a Nation in 2010 in accordance with the Nisga'a Treaty.
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Dene Rawhide with Stretcher (replica) and Shirt, First Peoples Gallery, RBCM. Detail.
Animals provided interior First Nations with much of their material culture. This fitted shirt is made of hide sewn with sinew thread and decorated with fringes, red ochre pigment and bands of dyed porcupine quill embroidery. (RBCM 14647)
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Songhees Canoe, First Peoples Gallery, RBCM.
Canoes are an important element of culture, intertribal relationship, resource gathering and trade. This one was used in the 19th century by a Coast Salish (Songhees) chief to travel in the Victoria area.
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First Peoples Gallery, RBCM.
In this gallery, the Haida artist Bill Reid describes the effects of the devastating smallpox epidemic of 1862 in a moving tribute to the strength of First Nations people and their cultures.
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Totem Gallery, First Peoples Gallery, RBCM.
The Royal BC Museum has a large collection of monumental carvings including historical and contemporary totem poles. Those pictured here in the First Peoples exhibit are from many areas of the coast and illustrate a variety of First Nations carving styles and traditions.
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Helmcken House, RBCM.
Helmcken House was built by Dr. John Sebastian Helmcken, a surgeon with the Hudson's Bay Company. It is one of the oldest houses in British Columbia still on its original site. The doctor's original 19th century medical kit is among the interesting items on display.
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Kwakwaka’wakw Honouring Pole (1999), Thunderbird Park, RBCM.
This is the first pole to be raised on the Royal BC Museum grounds in 40 years. It is dedicated to the Coast Salish people on whose ancestral lands Thunderbird park is located, and honours the Hunt and Whonnock families of the Kwakwaka’wakw carvers. The log came from Quatsino Sound and is 553 years old.
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Wawdit’la, Mungo Martin House, Thunderbird Park, RBCM.
Wawdit’la, Mungo Martin House, is a traditional big house, constructed in 1941. A smaller version of a house that once stood in Tsaxis (Fort Rupert), it was built by Mungo Martin, considered the finest Kwakwaka’wakw carver of his day. Wawadit’la continues to be used for First Nations events with the permission of Chief Peter Knox, Martin’s grandson.
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Netherlands Centennial Carillon, RBCM.
The Netherlands Centennial Carillon was a gift from British Columbia’s Dutch community to honour Canada’s 100th birthday in 1967. Measuring 27 metres (90 feet) tall, this carillon tower is the largest in Canada.
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St. Ann's Schoolhouse, RBCM.
Built in 1844 and possibly the oldest building still standing in Victoria, St. Ann’s Schoolhouse was purchased by Roman Catholic Bishop Demers in 1853 for use as a residence and schoolhouse. In 1858, after four Sisters of St. Ann came to BC from Quebec, it was in this building the Sisters lived and held their first classes. |
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BC Archives, RBCM.
The BC Archives was founded in 1894 to house government records (dating back to 1849), manuscripts, maps, photographs, paintings, audio recordings and film. |
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Front Exterior with Sign, RBCM.
The Royal BC Museum is one of the foremost cultural institutions in the world. Since 1886, we have been British Columbia's provincial museum, collecting artifacts, documents and specimens of the province's natural and human history, safeguarding them for the future, and sharing them with the world.
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Side Exterior, RBCM.
As the provincial museum and archives, the Royal BC Museum preserves and shares the stories of British Columbia – on-site, off-site and online – through its research, collections, exhibitions and educational programs. Its two-hectare cultural precinct also includes a number of historically significant buildings and First Nations sites. |
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Front Entrance, RBCM.
As the provincial museum and archives, the Royal BC Museum preserves and shares the stories of British Columbia – on-site, off-site and online – through its research, collections, exhibitions and educational programs. Its two-hectare cultural precinct also includes a number of historically significant buildings and First Nations sites.
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