Royal British Columbia Museum
The Royal British Columbia Museum Corporation consists of The Province of British Columbia's natural and human history museum as well as the Provincial Archives. It is located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The "Royal" title was approved by Queen Elizabeth II and bestowed by HRH Prince Philip in 1987, to coincide with a Royal tour of that year. The museum merged with the British Columbia Provincial Archives in 2003.
The museum includes three permanent galleries and an IMAX theatre which shows educational films as well as commercial entertainment such as Spider-Man films, Inception, and others. It hosts touring exhibitions from around the world. In recent years, these included exhibitions on the RMS Titanic, Leonardo da Vinci, Egyptian artifacts, and Genghis Khan.
The natural history collections have 750,000 records of specimens almost exclusively from BC and neighbouring states, provinces, or territories. The collections are divided into eight disciplines: Entomology, Botany, Paleontology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Zoology, Herpetology, Mammals, and Ornithology. Bryophytes and Algae are not well represented.
The museum is in Victoria's Inner Harbour, between the Empress Hotel and the Legislature Buildings. The museum anchors the Royal BC Museum Cultural Precinct, a surrounding area with historical sites and monuments, including Thunderbird Park.
The Royal BC Museum was named one of BC's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc. in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 and one of Canada's Top 100 Employers in 2010.
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