Event

New Exhibit Launch @ Redpath Museum

Friday, April 13, 2018 13:00to14:00
Redpath Museum Auditorium, 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA
Price: 
FREE

To celebrate the recent renovation of the display cases in the Redpath Museum Auditorium, we will be hosting a public launch with presentations by four graduate students. 
The new exhibit, consisting of four separate display cases, highlights the four pillars of the Redpath Museum's historic collection: Biodiversity, Mineralogy, Paleontology, and World Cultures. The speakers will be sharing their research in each of these four areas. 
After the lecture, visitors are welcome to enjoy and give feedback on the new displays.

Speakers:
"World Cultures": Daniel Ruiz-Serna, Ph.D Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology
"Paleontology": Alexandre Demers-Potvin, MSc Candidate, Dept. Biology. 
"Mineralogy": Emily Laycock, MSc, Dept. of Economic Geology  
"Biodiversity": Kathleen Godfrey, MA Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology

Curator of new display: Lauren McAusland, U3 B.A&Sc. History and Organismal Biology, Redpath Museum Society President

Land Acknowledgement

McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

The Redpath Museum's director EDI statement.

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