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The 6 Best Museums in Jasper, Canadian Rockies
Escape the urban bustle and make Jasper your home base for exploring Canada's extraordinary wilderness. As a mountain town, it's low-key and unpretentious with good food and drink; as a destination, it's an outdoor sports lover's playground, with hiking and golfing in summer and skiing and dog sledding in winter. If it's chilly, heat up at Miette Hot Springs in the National Park.
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1. Mountain Galleries Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge
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4.5 based on 60 reviews
An art gallery offering exhibits of local area artists.
Reviewed By C7411LZrogerp
This is not your typical hotel art gallery. I was very much impressed with the variety of works by excellent Canadian artists. Every turn you made throughout the gallery provided a new experience as you are introduced to the next piece of art. Bravo!
2. Our Native Land
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4.5 based on 91 reviews
Reviewed By snowflake53 - St. Albert, Canada
This is the store I always go to for interesting and different gifts from Canada. Always find unique gifts here.
3. Jasper Art Gallery
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4.5 based on 34 reviews
4. The Jasper Planetarium
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4.5 based on 329 reviews
YEAR-ROUND TELESCOPE OUTDOOR AND INDOOR DOME TOURS - One of the best evening things to do in Jasper! Join our astronomy experts to explore Jasper Dark Sky Preserve, an 11,000 square-km stargazing paradise. Come OUTSIDE at our Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge location where you can see stars, planets, galaxies and more through the largest telescope in the Rockies. ALSO, take a guided 'tour' of local aboriginal constellations, recent Northern Lights activity, and more inside our 40-seat domed theatre. This fun, f u n n y , inspiring, interactive audience-participation attraction is a great after-dinner activity for families, couples and others.
Reviewed By madsab20
Husband and I attended both planetarium and telescope package on a cloudy night. Planetarium show was comfy in an outdoor covered tent and Peter is very interactive and responsive to questions. Telescope portion is outdoors starting at 11pm so be prepared for the weather. Since it was cloudy and only a few attending, we got to sit in outdoor chairs and listen to Matt show us vivid and clear pictures of stars and astronomy phenomenons taken previously. We made use of their "raincheck offer" and came back 2 nights later when the skies were clear to see the live telescope show. Of course, it was much busier and so everyone had to stand in separate groups. Was neat to see "live stars" but trickier since the sun is out so late to see them clearly. Overall a fun and educational event that got me more interested in astronomy. Even though it was warm during the day, the night was windy and cold, so don't come wearing sandals and shorts, especially since you might be standing in one spot for an hour or more (if you stay till midnight or later). Maybe bring hats/gloves just in case - even though it was almost July.
5. The Den - Jasper's Wildlife Museum
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4.0 based on 70 reviews
This museum offers a look at the many animals of Western Canada in their natural habitat.
Reviewed By Linseed3329 - Edmonton, Canada
I've visited the museum about four times now, it's become a bit of a Jasper tradition for me. It's a great little stop to kill half and hour, probably the most affordable thing to do in Jasper at 3 bucks a person. There's definitely a variety of skill level happening for the taxidermy of the animals but the less skilled ones add some fun comedic value. Also a great way to get an up close view of many animals found in the park without the danger of approaching wild animals (please don't do that... Seriously.)
6. Jasper-Yellowhead Museum & Archives
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4.0 based on 132 reviews
Our museum offers an engaging, interactive record of Jasper’s fascinating history. Our exhibits include the history of the Indigenous and Metis people of the Athabasca Valley; the fur trade-including David Thompson, one of Canada’s foremost explorers; the railway; early mountaineering- including the story of the Silver Ice Axe and first ascent of Mount Alberta and the development of tourism in Jasper National Park. The exhibits in our Showcase Gallery are changed regularly & this year we are partnering with the Lake Edith Artist Group & associates to put together a 100th anniversary exhibit on the artist colony where we will be showcasing stories, art, artifacts, and historic photos of the last one hundred years. This collaborative effort will run from mid-April to the end of October 2021. We will also be hosting a social media competition that asks participants to recreate artwork or photographs in the exhibit in a new and inventive ways. Come & learn about "Our Jasper Stories".
Reviewed By sarahc756 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
The history of jasper and the park taking in the first nations, settlers, explorers, mountaineers, fur traders, railway workers, tourists and park rangers. Their special exhibition at the moment is about the internment camps around the area and further afield in Canada during the war and how those interned built a lot of the infrastructure for the national parks. Something I knew absolutely nothing about.
