Alberta’s dinosaur museum in Drumheller will be getting a $9.3-million expansion.
The province says the Royal Tyrrell Museum project will include an additional hands-on learning area, classrooms and a distance-learning space.
The announcement also comes with word of a new exhibit called “Foundations” which will encourage visitors to learn about the basics of paleontology, geology, evolution, fossilization and the history of life on Earth.
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The museum houses one of the world’s largest displays of dinosaurs and is Canada’s only museum dedicated exclusively to paleontology.
The province says the expansion will create short- and long-term employment and diversify the economy.
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Construction is expected to begin in the spring of 2017 and be completed in the spring of 2019, and the museum will remain open to the public throughout the construction period.
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