Panorama Borealis, by G. Donald Bain — An Exhibition of Panoramic Photography, Palmela, Portugal, Summer 2011

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5 Albino Moose
The Fort Nelson Heritage Museum, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
August 21, 2010

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The small town of Fort Nelson is the service center for the regional energy industry: coal, oil, and gas. I spent a pleasant afternoon in the local history museum there.

This museum seems to function as sort of a community attic - anything that is old and someone says "that belongs in a museum", well they will find a place for it here. The main building is packed to the ceiling (literally) with all manner of interesting items, some of them important testimony to local history, others just odd. I found it immensely entertaining. In the foreground here is an albino moose, just around the corner there is a caribou-hide swimsuit.

There are several other buildings - an excellent automotive collection, a trappers cabin, a former Hudson Bay Company factor's prim little house, plus sheds and outdoor exhibits including an oil derrick.


Type: 360° panorama
Printed dimensions: 120.0 cm wide, 40.0 cm high
Interactive version: VirtualGuidebooks.com/borealis/05.html
Virtual Guidebooks locality page: Fort Nelson on the Alaska Highway

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