Day 24 Alaska Trip -West Edmonton Mall
Royal Alberta Museum
A beautifully painted wall next to where we parked the car to tour the museum. Incidentally, the parking was $15 while the museum entrance fee was $14 per senior.
Royal Alberta Museum
The Royal Alberta Museum had four fascinating sections: the Human History Hall, Natural History Hall, Bug Gallery and a Feature Gallery that showcased artifacts and history from Angkor Wat temple Complex in Cambodia (where I’ve been).
The Angkor Wat Gallery
My picture of Angkor Wat from my visit in 2017. It is considered the world’s largest religious structure in the world. Construction began in in 1129 and completed around 1150. It was dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, but was gradually converted to a Buddhist Temple as it remains today.
These artifacts were from recovered and date back to the 1100s.
Hall of Natural History
Hall of Human History
The history of the indigenous people was very interesting. We watched a short video of how they wore a bison costume and lured a herd of bison into corals as pictured below where they could easily kill a huge number.
Beads and sicknesses went hand in hand. European traders benefited from immunity to many diseases, but indigenous people had no protection. Recurring epidemics devastated entire nations. Mortality rates sometimes reached 90%. These beads illustrate the virus or bacterium associated with different diseases. Measles, influenza, whooping cough, bubonic plague, cholera, diphtheria , typhoid fever, smallpox, scarlet fever and chickenpox.
The iron lung from the polio epidemic of the 50’s. The person’s whole body laid inside the machine with only the head propped up on the end.
Madagascar hissing cockroach
Mexican redone tarantula
West Edmonton Mall
This is the largest mall in North America. It contains an amusement park, a water park, over 800 stores and restaurants, ice skating/hockey rink, marine life exhibit, bowling alley, escape room and more!
Galaxyland Amusement Park, located in West Edmonton Mall, is the world’s largest indoor amusement park and offers space-themed rides for all ages
There were several huge candy stores
These motorized stuffed animals can be rented and ridden in the mall.
