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Alberta's Royal Tyrrell Museum announces $9.3M expansion

The funding part of the Alberta Jobs Plan will go toward expanding facilities and learning spaces.

New exhibit explores the science of paleontology

Royal Tyrrell Museum is expanding

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New $9.3M exhibit explores the science of paleontology

Alberta's dinosaur museum is getting a $9.3-million expansion.

In an announcement Friday afternoon, the provincial government said the funding part of the Alberta Jobs Plan will go toward expanding facilities and learning spaces, creating a family rest area, expanding accessible washrooms and creating a hands-on "discovery room."

The museum alsounveiled a new exhibit that exploresthe science of paleontology.

"By making the museum experience even better, the expansion money our government is announcing today will increase visitors, create jobs, and leave a legacy for future generations," Alberta's Culture and Tourism Minister Ricardo Miranda said in a statement.

The province saidthe expansion will create both short-termand long-term employment.

Construction will start next spring and is expected to be finished by spring 2019.

With files from the CBC's Monty Kruger