Welcome to the Redpath Museum
The Redpath Museum, one of Canada's oldest free-standing museums, functions
as a unique interdisciplinary unit within the Faculty of Science. As a Museum
it preserves and displays large collections of ancient and modern organisms,
minerals, and world culture (ethnological) artefacts. As an academic unit it
serves as a centre for the teaching and writing of science, as well as a
research centre for the history of life and biodiversity of the planet.
Research
Research at the museum is focused on evolution, from working out the details
of the 3,5 billion year history of life on the planet to examining how
creatures and systems are changing today. The researchers of the museum can
be found on the staff page
and their findings can be found both on their individual staff pages and in
the publications
section of the site.
Courses taught at the Museum
Museum courses include
Science Writing, offered at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as
well as a new museum studies course,
Science and Museums, which focuses on the history of research and
management of natural history collections. Museum staff teach courses in
several departments such as Biology or the School of the Environment, or
Anthropology, and yet more courses are taught in the museum by
videoconference from the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at Macdonald
College.
At the graduate level, students wanting to study biosystematics and evolutionary biology can find several supervisors working on a variety of topics. Students from other, related departments can also be supported by the museum.
Exhibits and public programming
Exhibits at the museum
are found on all three floors and focus on natural history, world cultures
(ethnology), and mineralogy. Popular specimens include dinosaurs, shells,
mummies and a wide variety of Quebec minerals.
A robust public programme includes activities such as documentary films, public lectures, Sunday discovery workshops for children and tours inside and outside of the museum.
Please follow the links below if you are looking for the:
Faculty of Science
Department of Biology
Faculty of Agriculture &
Environmental Sciences
Department of Natural Resource
Sciences
