Vers 1882-2009
Construite en 1871, l’aile sud du collège presbytérien que l’on aperçoit au loin entre les 2 immeubles nommés ci-haut fut démolie en 1963 afin d’être remplacé par le Leacock building.
Source : Musée McCord
Montage du jour : Le collège presbytérien et le musée Redpath
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The Redpath museum is the home of the mummy.
That Leacock building is reminicient of iron-curtain communist architecture.
The Redpath Museum is a quirky place, really a monument to its founder, Frank Dawson Adams. Though it was built in 1882, it resembled (before renovations) natural history museums from 50 years earlier, before Darwin proposed his theory of evolution. While much of the scientific community was coming around to Darwin, Adams refused to do so. The idea with the Redpath Museum was that you would come in, enter the exhibition hall and arrayed around you would be the glory of all of God’s creation.