Museum of Nature warehouse opens up to showcase rare treasures

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The Museum of Nature opened the doors to its private warehouse in Gatineau on Saturday, offering a rare opportunity to catch a glimpse of some of the most unusual objects in the museum’s collection — and meet the people who work with them.

The event, held every year in a warehouse the size of five hockey ricks, aims at pulling back the curtain on the rarest of the more than 14.6 million artifacts in the museum’s collection, including many that don’t make it on display on a regular basis.

Among the highlights at the facility at 1740 Pink Road in Gatineau: minerals, meteorites, dinosaur bones and Ice Age mammals, a wall of antlers as well as collections of parasites, crustaceans, mussels and insects.

The free event runs until 4 pm Saturday. Tours are self-guided and parking is free.

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  A caribou skeleton at the Canadian Museum of Nature open house held on Saturday, October 14, 2017 Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
  
  
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  Right lower jaw bone of a fin whale at the Canadian Museum of Nature open house held on Saturday, October 14, 2017 Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
  
  
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  Styracosaurus Albertensis skull at the Canadian Museum of Nature open house held on Saturday, October 14, 2017 Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
  
  
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  A northern fur seal skeleton at the Canadian Museum of Nature open house held on Saturday, October 14, 2017 Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
  
  
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  Alice Beaudreau sketches as she checks out the displays Saturday morning at the Canadian Museum of Nature open house held on Saturday, October 14, 2017 Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
  
  
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  A moose skull on display at the Canadian Museum of Nature open house held on Saturday, October 14, 2017 Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
  
  
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  Basilemys variolosa turtle carapace, plastron and partial skeleton at the Canadian Museum of Nature open house held on Saturday, October 14, 2017 Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
  
  
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  Julie Parkins Forget and Evan Forget check out the displays Saturday morning at the Canadian Museum of Nature open house held on Saturday, October 14, 2017 Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
  
  
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  Vincent Caloia takes a close look at the various types of beetles on display at the Canadian Museum of Nature open house held on Saturday, October 14, 2017 Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
  

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