of Eskimo carvings, West Coast Indian art, relics associated with 
the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, antique navigational instruments, 
and Canadian birds and mammals. For the last two years the Museum 
has set up large exhibitions of Canadian aboriginal art at the 
Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Specimens of Canadian dinosaurs 
are on long-term loan to the Museum of the Province of Quebec 
and the University of British Columbia, and a third is being prepared 
for the Museum of Drumheller, Alberta. Another extension service 
has been the provision to other museums of expert advice on the 
design and construction of exhibits; in some cases this has involved 
protracted visits by National Museum personnel. 
Plans for utilization of the entire Museum building call for 
eight permanent exhibition halls. Those on the east side of the build- 
ing will deal with natural history subjects, and those on the west 
side with various aspects of Canadian anthropology. On the first 
floor, the east-central hall will be the Hall of Geology, showing in a 
series of alcoves the major aspects of that science, with Canadian 
examples. This will lead into the Hall of Fossils, in which the most 
impressive exhibits will be the skeletons of Canadian dinosaurs. The 
Hall of Birds will be, as at present, the east-central hall on the 
second floor, and will include three large dioramas of spectacular 
bird concentrations, work on which has already started. Next to 
this will be the Hall of Mammals, the east hall of the second floor, 
with twelve large dioramas. The anthropological exhibits will begin 
on the first floor west-central hall, the Hall of Prehistoric Man; these 
will include not only archaeological exhibits but also an introduc- 
tion to the physical nature of Man. From here the visitor will go to 
the Hall of the Eskimo, where the prehistory, the early contact way 
of life, and the effects of acculturation will be illustrated. On the 
second floor, the west-central hall will be devoted to the material 
culture of the West Coast Indians of Canada, of which the Museum 
possesses an outstanding collection. The west hall on the second 
floor will display articles representing the Woodlands and Plains 
Indians of Canada. 
In addition to these areas of permanent display, there will be a 
large part of the east wing, third floor, set up for temporary exhibi- 
tions. Here, over a period of years, it is hoped to show much of 
the collections that cannot be accommodated in the permanent 
exhibits. 
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