“Is that real?”
This lady has a passion for natural history
natural history exhibition in the Alfred
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Ranged along the tables running around
Recreation Centre at Parc Larocque.
the four walls of the building and down the
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“Everybodywas impressed,”Villeneuve
centre are gleaming samples of local
said, adding, with a smile, that the most-
minerals, ivory-coloured animal skeletons,
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repeated question from children and adults
and other items ranging from examples of
and she will show you the world. Or at
was, “Is that real?”
furs, native artifacts, both originals and
least as much of it as Nature created.
The three-day exhibition packed inside
facsimiles, representing the First Nations
The founder and curator of the former
the recreation centre featured hundreds of
fromHaidaGwaiitotheEasternWoodlands,
Prescott-Russell natural history museum
naturalhistorypieces fromVilleneuve’sown
along with books, plastic models of
that was based in Hawkesbury spent a
collection,muchof themrescued fromwhen
dinosaurs, photographs, and other items.
happy weekend recently welcoming
the Hawkesbury natural history museum
She received additional support with
students from local schools in Alfred and
closed its doors in 2008 after several years of
temporary loans of unique artifacts for
otherstoher“AMuseumAtYourDoorstep”
operation.
displaylikeanAfricanturtleshell,measuring
more than half a metre long by half a metre
wide, used as the “canvas” for a painting by
the artist, Moussa, and a Bengal tiger skin,
complete with a fiercely-snarling head.
“Some people were ‘Would you like it if
we loaned you something?’” she said.
Two of the most popular parts of the
exhibition, she noted, besides the tiger skin
itself, were the forest diorama setup and the
“hands-on” centre table displays where
children and adults could “touch things”
and see what they felt like.
Villeneuve’s own background, besides
her time as a museum curator in
Hawkesbury, includes time spent as a
volunteer at dinosaur digs inAlberta for the
Tyrell Museum. Her goal in creating the
three-day “A Museum At Your Door”
exhibitioninAlfredwastohelpfosterinterest
in both local and global natural history.
“My biggest wish is to start another
permanent museum,” she said. “I think it
has a lot of potential. These things are for
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people to see, not to sit in my closet. If
Two grins for the price of one at the
somebody could give me a room, I could
Museum At Your Door in Alfred.
make a miracle.”
“These things
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are for people to see,
not to sit in my
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En français
Mélanie Villeneuve has a passion for
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bones, stones, and any and all wonders
of the natural world, and she shares that
passionwithherMuseumAt YourDoor
project.
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