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Redpath Museum
Category: Arts & Entertainment Museums Museums [Edit]
859 rue Sherbrooke OuestMontréal, QC H3A 2K6
(514) 398-4086
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
3 reviews for Redpath Museum
2 reviews in English
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Review from A S.
2/1/2011 1 Check-in Here
What a treasure! This tiny museum has a wild collection of all sorts of fascinating specimens. It's free, and the main hall is lined with the offices of professors who's students come and go as you browse the exhibits.
I got really excited about the artifacts from turn-of-the-century Congo, the ancient Egyptian collection (pottery & other artifacts including several mummies), the amazing minerals, fossils and dino bones. They've got great curiosities too: a giant Japanese spider crab, a shrunken head (with a fun 'is it fake' display), tiny shoes made for Chinese ladies with bound feet, a polar bear hide, and neat taxidermy, like a specimen of the only parrot native to N. America (now extinct).
I spent about two hours in here pouring over every descriptive card, but a more casual visitor could cover the whole place in twenty minutes. -
Review from Krsna V.
8/10/2008
Fossils, people! FOSSILS! Rare and extraordinarily preserved fossils.
Redpath is located on the McGill University campus. Entry is free and the museum is small. The main focus is on rocks and fossils.
The have minerals from Quebec, a mummy, fossils of dinosaurs, and strange animals. The "back to sea" exhibit has a great collection of fossils from the water and the "Dawson gallery" has a collection of strange animals that played connecting roles in evolution.
The museum is small and doesn't take much to tour but, the collection is definitely worth visiting.
Oh, and a bonus (if you go in the summer), is all the half-naked guys playing frisbee on the McGill university lawns. Bonus!!Listed in: Montreal - The land of hot…
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