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 Established in 1906, the University of Alberta is
one of the oldest collecting institutions in western Canada. Today, there are over 30 different museums, collections and exhibits in departments all over campus, with over 17 million artifacts and specimens. Collectively, they reflect the history of the University, the natural and human history of western Canada, and the development of such disciplines as botany, anthropology, art, and theatre. No matter what the department, the artifacts, specimens, and heritage resources collected and preserved are essential to teaching, research and lifelong learning.
Walk through most buildings on the university campus and you'll find exhibits: fossils, art, minerals, butterflies, textiles, and musical instruments, to name just a few. Many museums and collections are easily accessed and the public is welcome to visit.
Print Study Centre
Opened in 1996, this is a state-of-the-art facility for the care and study of prints and drawings from the university's art collection. Its holdings span four centuries and include such masters as Rembrandt, Goya and Durer, as well as internationally known contemporary artists.
Classics Museum
Antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Near East provide a rare glimpse into everyday life in the
ancient world. The collection includes utilitarian clay jugs and lamps, perfume bottles, jewellery and coins.
Clothing and Textiles Collection
Holdings include over 15,000 costumes, textiles and related artifacts, from many time periods and cultures. Regular exhibits range from 19th-century Canadian fashion to Chinese folk embroidery.
Paleontology Museum
Take a journey through geological time with the university's most significant specimens of fossil fish, reptiles, mammals and plants as the roadside markers. Many were found in the 1920s by noted "dinosaur hunter" George F. Sternberg, including the world's best example of Stegoceras validus.
Museum of Zoology
Here are collections of mammals, fishes, reptiles, amphibians, birds and freshwater invertebrates, representing species from around the world as well as an important historical record of Alberta's fauna. Some of the more intriguing specimens include sea snakes from the South Pacific and the skull of an extinct great auk.
The University Archives
This research resource includes among its multi-media holdings university records from 1908, as well as documents relating to Aboriginal peoples, the fur trade, land settlement, irrigation, politics, oil sands development and medical discoveries.
Museums and Collections Services, Ring House #1, University of Alberta, Edmonton. . E-mail:
Web site: http://www.ualberta.ca/MUSEUMS
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