Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum - Wembley, Alberta
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The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is on Hwy 43 about 25km west of Grande Prairie and a 3 minute drive north from Wembley.
Waymark Code: WM13X2Z
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 03/05/2021
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Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is an ultra modern, multi-million dollar dinosaur museum located in Wembley. Collections include marine fossils, specimens, casts, murals, articulated re-constructions, core samples and artifacts. They also offer tours of the Pipestone Creek Bonebed, a mega-dense dinosaur graveyard, a few kilometers from the museum. You must provide your own transportation to the site.
Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is in the heart of the Peace Country on a 10 acre complex. Designed by Toronto-based Teeple Architects, Arndt Tkalcic Bengert (ATB) and Structural Engineers Fast & Epp. It was completed in 2015.
The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is dedicated to Alberta’s paleontological heritage, through research, collection, preservation, exhibition, public programming, publications and innovative outreach.
Wembley is in the “Heart of the Action” when it comes to the wheat and oat production in the area. Wembley is a quiet, peaceful northern Alberta town surrounded by vast fields of farmland and grazing cattle. Wembley had a population of 1,749 in 2019.
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