Museums
The Redpath Museum of natural history in Montreal was built in 1882 as a gift from Peter Redpath. Commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of Sir John William Dawson's appointment as Principal of McGill University, the building was designed in Victorian Gothic style by A.C. Hutchison and A. D. Steele. It is the oldest Canadian building built specifically to be a museum. (Compare the Tate art gallery in London, also built with one man's sugar money.) The Redpath Library, also at McGill, was also built with this sugar philanthropy.
The Redpath Sugar Museum in Toronto, housed in one of the buildings of the refinery, displays the story of the company, the Redpath family, the evolution of refining technologies, and so on, and publishes works on these subjects.
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Famous quotes containing the word museums:
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
—Henry James (1843–1816)
“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.... We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)