The Redpath Museum is a museum of natural history belonging to McGill University and located at 859 Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1882 as a gift from the sugar baron Peter Redpath. It is rumoured that it was part of an effort to ensure that Sir William Dawson would not leave the university. It houses collections of interest to ethnology, biology, paleontology, and mineralogy/geology. The collections were started by some of the same individuals who founded the Smithsonian and Royal Ontario Museum collections. The current director is David Green. Commissioned by Redpath to mark the 25th anniversary of Sir John William Dawson’s appointment as Principal, the Museum was designed by A.C. Hutchison and A. D. Steele. McGill University’s Redpath Museum Web site characterizes it as an “idiosyncratic expression of eclectic Victorian Classicism” as well as “an unusual and late example of the Greek Revival in North America.” It is the oldest building built specifically to be a museum in Canada. Both the museum’s interior and exterior have been utilized as a set, for movies and ommercials. (See Barnum (1986) starring Burt Lancaster, Eye of the Beholder, (1999) starring Ashley Judd). Montreal travel destinations.
GPS travel destinations: 45° 30′ 15.72″ N, 73° 34′ 38.5″ W
