Museum
Banff Park Museum National Historic Site
Rustic log museum housing mounted Rockies wildlife, minerals and plants collected since the 1890s.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Banff Park Museum National Historic Site follows the collection back to a shipping crate that arrived from Ottawa in eighteen ninety-five, and to Norman Bethune Sanson, the curator who built it into what stands here now. Along the way it touches the eighteen eighty-three hot springs discovery and Banff's eighteen eighty-five founding as Canada's first national park, and how a railway's push for tourists shaped this museum. Look up at the crossed-log walls and lantern roof while you listen.
This audio guide was created using AI.