The Royal Saskatchewan Museum was established in Regina as the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History in 1906 to "secure and preserve natural history specimens and objects of historical and ethnological interest." It was the first museum in Saskatchewan, and the first provincial museum in the three Prairie Provinces. Regina may refer to: Latin word for Queen Regina, Saskatchewan, the capital of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. ...

Between 1906 and 1945 the Museum occupied several premises including the Regina Trading Company Building, the Provincial Legislative Building, and the Normal School (the eastern-most historic building on the "College Avenue" campus of the University of Regina). During the Second World War the Museum's collections were taken out of public display and stored initially in the General Motors Building (east on Dewdney Avenue) to permit the Normal School to be used for the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, and then, when the GM building was also requisitioned, in Pilkington’s Glass Company Building. The collections returned to the Normal School in 1944 and opened to the public again in 1945. The University of Regina (UofR) is a degree granting instituition located in the southeast quadrant of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. ...

Finally the provincial government built the current premises on the corner of Albert Street and College Avenue, the site of the abandoned Grand Trunk Hotel, as a Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee project; the new premises were opened by Governor General Vincent Massey in 1955.

The Museum collection, then housed in the provincial legislative building, had been decimated by the 1912 "Regina Cyclone." The collection was severely damaged again in 1990 when fire broke out in the First Nations Gallery, which was then under construction. Smoke damage required the museum to close for four months; when it reopened the First Nations Gallery and the Life Sciences were substantially improved. Regina Cyclone is popular name for a tornado that devastated the city Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada on June 30th 1912, around 5:00 pm. ...

External links

• http://www.royalsaskmuseum.ca/about/index.shtml Royal Saskatchewan Museum website