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Spend the day exploring Alberta's fascinating history! Admission provides access to all galleries in the Royal Alberta Museum for the entire day. Book your ticket to enjoy Express entry and skip line ups! Mammoth Pass members, please login first.

Our popular Sustainable Societies program is now available as a take-home object kit! We've transformed the guided tour and board game into a hands-on learning experience for your classroom.

The museum is like your good old friend with countless stories. Stories shared with excitement, authenticity and a touch of Alberta's world famous hospitality! We are Albertan through and through. Share our passion for the province we call home.

With your Senior Mammoth Pass you get ONE YEAR of EXPRESS ENTRY admission to the Royal Alberta Museum, plus discounts at our Shop and Café, for ONLY $35!

Join us for a screening of Animal Nation   Bison, which details how Indigenous communities like the Kainai Blood Tribe revive their deep cultural and ecological ties to the bison with the help of Elk Island National Park, which reintroduces them to the prairies they roamed in vast herds before colonization.

This film is appropriate for all ages.

From space rocks, live bugs and an ancient mammoth, to wildlife dioramas and personal accounts from people who have shaped our province. Ah-ha moments await around every corner, along with endless opportunities to spark imagination and feed your curiosity.

Your Adult Mammoth Passes is good for ONE YEAR of EXPRESS ENTRY admission to the Royal Alberta Museum, plus discounts at our Shop and Café for ONLY $45!

This film is recommended for visitors aged 14 and up.

In honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day, you’re invited to join us for a screening of Birth of a Family.

Four siblings, Betty Ann, Esther, Rosalie, and Ben, were among 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada taken from their families between 1955 and 1985 and placed in foster care or adopted by white families. As they uncover their shared past, they rebuild their connection and begin to form a family. Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada.

This screening is included with General Admission.

Millions of years of history and thousands of objects in an iconic place. From the everyday to the unexpected - feed your curiosity with stories you won't find anywhare else

Your Youth Mammoth Pass provides ONE YEAR of EXPRESS ENTRY admission to the Royal Alberta Museum, plus discounts at our Shop and Café, for ONLY $25!

Join us for a special screening of Nanekawâsis, a documentary spanning four decades of Indigenous artist George Littlechild’s storied career.

As a two-spirit person and ‘60s scoop survivor, Littlechild’s artwork draws from a unique perspective of pain, joy, and exemplary merit. Through archival footage and new interviews, this documentary gives viewers the opportunity to get to know a major player in the Indigenous art world, while highlighting the impacts of colonialism in Canada on both art and artist.

Please be advised: This film is rated PG and contains artistic representations of nudity.

Come to the go-to place for Alberta history. We have many answers, but we raise just as many questions. We are a great destination, but really, we are a starting point for your whole family to explore and discover together.

Your Family Mammoth Pass provides ONE YEAR of EXPRESS ENTRY admission to the Royal Alberta Museum for up to 8 PEOPLE, plus discounts at our Shop and Café, for ONLY $90!

Give a Gift of Historic Proportions!

Gift a Mammoth Pass and share the fun with your friends and family! A Mammoth Pass includes one year of express entry admission and discounts at our Shop and Café.

Self-Guided Field Trips are a great way for schools to visit the museum in a supported and flexible way.

Self-Guided Field Trip fees (per group, up to 35 students and 7 adults):

Pre-k - grade 1: $45

Grades 2   12: $125

How do traditions, abilities, or ways of life shape a person's identity? In this two-part program, students will explore the theme of identity and discover the value of learning from museum objects.

Why do beavers have flat tails, why are moose so tall, and why do geese migrate in the spring and fall? How are animals in Alberta able to survive in the unique environments they call home?

What did this land look like a thousand, ten thousand, or even one million years ago? Alberta boasts many unique landscapes and features. Mountains, rivers, and valleys have formed slowly over time, but have you ever wondered how they came to be?

How do communities grow? How does the land sustain us? Through an interactive tour in the Human History Hall, students will explore historical examples of how various communities have used, and sometimes misused, the natural resources available to them.

The Arctic Object Kit is built on the foundations of Indigenous cultural content specific to the Northern communities in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

Bring the rich and long history of the Métis to your classroom. This object kit provides samples of artwork, tools and activities such as books, a full glossary of items and 15 museum quality objects to deepen student understanding of Métis relationship to the land.

What does a real dinosaur bone look and feel like? What about an ammonite shell? Use this kit to discover plant and animal fossils in a hands-on way!

Explore the different properties of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary specimens with your students.

Have you ever heard of a darning mushroom? What about a soap saver? Learn about communities of the past by exploring early life tools, clothing and recreational items.