I really like how this one has turned out. It's nice an modern, but has an elegant look to it.
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Indigenous history prominent at new Royal Alberta Museum
Executive director says stories about the Indigenous experience in the new Royal Alberta Museum will be interwoven throughout the human history hall. (Trevor Wilson/CBC)
The moment people walk into the new Royal Alberta Museum, it will be clear they're in a place where Indigenous people have existed for thousands of years.
The museum opens in 2018. Visitors will be greeted by a special welcome acknowledging the building is located in Treaty 6 territory.
"Ultimately there will be a sign panel here in 13 different Indigenous languages," the museum's executive director Chris Robinson explained during an exclusive tour of the building.
The entrance to the $375.5 million building sets the tone for a shift in the way the museum is handling its Indigenous content.
Instead of a separate exhibition, such as the gallery of Aboriginal culture at the old site in Glenora, Indigenous experiences will be an integral part of the new downtown museum.
"Human occupation in Alberta goes back 13,000 years, that post contact period has really been a brief one. I think there was no other option but to integrate that entire story throughout," Robinson said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-indigenous-history-royal-alberta-museum-1.4449069
New Royal Alberta Museum to finally open in 2018
The exterior of the new $375.5 million Royal Alberta Museum in downtown Edmonton. August 16, 2016.
Vinesh Pratap, Global News
Museum staff have been working for a couple of years to pack up and move hundreds of thousands of artifacts from its Glenora location to the new museum downtown. Executive director Chris Robinson says there are 2.4 million pieces in the museum’s collection and about 400,000 are now downtown. Even though the museum is moving into a new space that’s twice the size of the old one, staff still have to be selective about what they can display in their 84,000 square feet of gallery space.
“We put 580 objects on display already out of the 5,300, so clearly there’s some more work to do there. We’ve got most of the 80-plus media pieces ready to go and we clearly have a lot more packing and moving to do as well,” Robinson said, while being careful not to make promises about a specific date for a grand opening. “So 2018 will be a big year for us and we are looking forward to it, I’m just not going to predict when in 2018 (we will open the museum).”
https://globalnews.ca/news/3940734/new-royal-alberta-museum-to-finally-open-in-2018/
Natural History brought back the amazing dioramas:
The gift shop had amazing stuff; definitely swing by there to do some Christmas shopping:
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I was lucky enough to get a tour of DIALOG's office earlier this week. Really neat to see how they've built their office into an old warehouse (the lobby is actually an old loading dock, and the rest of the building is raised). Everything is very open concept, lots of neat collaboration spaces, and interesting to hear about some collaboration exercises that bring together their multiple locations.
My guide talked a bit about the RAM design and made me appreciate more of the thought that went into it. For example, notice how some of the interior spaces are angled differently from the rest? The two angles represent the different roadway grids (the 12° tilt of the original settlement and the true north alignment of the former HBC lands) that meet in this area.
Also notice how the breaks in the exterior line up with 104 Avenue and 98 Street, which used to intersect here.
The circular children's gallery was designed to be like a treefort, and is the only gallery allowed to have natural sunlight.
So yeah, some interesting aspects to the design that I didn't realize before.
I also got a copy of a design brochure that explains more of this stuff, but still need to pour over it.
My guide talked a bit about the RAM design and made me appreciate more of the thought that went into it. For example, notice how some of the interior spaces are angled differently from the rest? The two angles represent the different roadway grids (the 12° tilt of the original settlement and the true north alignment of the former HBC lands) that meet in this area.
Also notice how the breaks in the exterior line up with 104 Avenue and 98 Street, which used to intersect here.
The circular children's gallery was designed to be like a treefort, and is the only gallery allowed to have natural sunlight.
So yeah, some interesting aspects to the design that I didn't realize before.
I also got a copy of a design brochure that explains more of this stuff, but still need to pour over it.
Also, I'm very excited for the first traveling feature coming to the new RAM - Vikings!
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Airboy
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Did you get to see any renderings of the Drug Hub. I believe Dialog got it.
Kaizen
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I wonder if the province will be held to task re: landscaping the North property line, as depicted in Dialogs concept renders?
Kaizen
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Right, I should have been more specific as I was referring to the sliver of land at the north face of building. As shown rendered below with evergreens, (unless that's Qualicos land too) soft landscaping would go a long way in beautifying the north face. I like the RAM's north profile, put with that vast gravel Qualico lot its so daunting..
