Event

Journées de la Culture: Sieving for Small Fossils

Saturday, September 29, 2018 11:30to15:00
Redpath Museum Room 106, 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA
Price: 
All the activities for Journées de la Culture are free

Join us during Journées de la Culture for a fun activity on fossils!

Learn how to sieve for small fossils with Palaeontology technician Chantal Montreuil. Shark and ray teeth, spines, fish scales... what will you find?

session 1: 11h30 to 12h30

session 2: 12h45 to 13h45

session 3: 14h00 to 15h00

For children aged 5 and up. Space is limited. Please arrive 15 minutes in advance to register at the front desk. 

You can bring a smock or old shirt and prepare to get muddy!

* Please note that you will be handling small fossils. For safety reasons, this activity is not appropriate for children under 5 years old. Thank you for your understanding.

 

Land Acknowledgement

McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

The Redpath Museum's director EDI statement.

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