Old Royal Alberta Museum building in Glenora to be torn down: province
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The former Royal Alberta Museum building will be torn down and replaced with a green space, the province announced on Thursday.
The former Royal Alberta Museum building will be torn down and replaced with a green space, the province announced on Thursday.
The old museum building was purpose-built in 1965 and opened to the public in 1967.
Queen Elizabeth II visited the museum on May 24, 2005 as part of her visit to celebrate Alberta's centennial.
At that time, the museum, which had been named The Provincial Museum and Archives of Alberta, was renamed the Royal Alberta Museum.
The building has been vacant since 2015.
The new Royal Alberta Museum opened in downtown Edmonton in 2018.
"The old Royal Alberta Museum building has been a part of our province for decades, and we know many Albertans have happy memories and sentimental stories from visits there," Peter Guthrie, minister of infrastructure said in a Thursday news release.
