But the Royal Alberta Museum simply nailed up May’s flight suit and called it a day. Ottawa’s Canadian War Museum was less than half as expensive as the Royal Alberta Museum, with a final price tag of an inflation-adjusted $176 million. The new Royal Alberta Museum leaned heavy on mammoth imagery for its marketing: A mammoth in the logo, a mammoth statue in the lobby, “mammoth passes” for museum members. And it’s not like Royal Alberta Museum curators have an excuse. When plans for the new Royal Alberta Museum emerged seven years ago after a prolonged fight over funding, it was touted as a home where the stories and grandeur of Alberta could live forever.

Source: National Post October 12, 2018 16:18 UTC