Currie Museum , and Jewels Goff, who does the education and outreach programs for the museum. To learn more about the museum, check out our video in part 1 of our EpicDinosaurRoadTrip. Do you like learning about dinosaurs? Come check out our Patreon page and help us keep this podcast going! Thank you to all our current Patreon supporters! You can listen to our free podcast, with all our episodes, on iTunes at:. For those who may prefer reading, see below for the full transcript of our interview with George Jacob and Jewels Goff:.
Currie Dinosaur Museum. The Philip J. The museum won several awards, nine awards in nine months, in fact, and just reached a milestone of , visitors in less than a yearโabout ten months after opening. We pulled together the fastest museum project in Canadian history and the project was designed, built on record time, on budget. And that is fairly rare in the museum realm. We have a number of interesting features with this museum that includes National Geographic Theater, two smart classrooms that Jewels leads with a 3D tech lab.
We have a fossil-paleo lab, we have a partnership with the University of Alberta, from [โฆ] professorship in [โฆ] paleontology that allows these institutions to work together in tandem.
And we have an active education and outreach program that we are quite proud of. So since we mentioned those classrooms, is that something that you do Jewels? Jewels Goff: Yes, definitely.
I lead a lot of the education programs, myself jointly with the rest of our department and I think we had about 5, studentsโฆ. Especially in this area. So last year it was quite popular and we were in Vertical magazine. That magazine focuses on helicopters. So [โฆ], which is about two hours from here has more than 10, dinosaur tracks and the only way one can see it is if one goes on an extensive hike or flies over it. So a part of our larger plan is to connect some of these larger bone bed sites, not just in Alberta, but also in British Columbia and have a common sort of dinosaur superhighway that you can admire from the air and learn about the movement and speed of some of these animals and herds of animals.
