The Niagara Falls Museum

The Niagara Falls Museum was a museum located in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Opened in 1827, by Thomas Barnett of Birmingham, England who moved to Canada in the early 1820s, it was subsequently closed in 1999.

It was Canada's oldest museum and is notable for housing the mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses I until the body, was carefully studied, and finally returned to Egypt in October 2003. According to current theory, his mummy was stolen by the Abu-Rassul family of grave robbers and brought to North America around 1860 by Dr. James Douglas. It was then placed in what was then knownFact|date=July 2008 as the "Niagara Museum and Daredevil Hall of Fame." Ramesses I remained there, his identity unknown, next to other curiosities and so-called freaks of nature for more than 130 years. When the owner of the museum decided to sell his property, Canadian businessman William Jamieson purchased its contents. In 1999, Jamieson sold the Egypitian artifacts in the collection, including the various mummies, to the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia for US $2 million. Present technology has not yet conclusively determined it to be Ramesses I, but researchers at Emory University used CT scans, X-rays, skull measurements and radio-carbon dating tests as strong evidence of its identity.

External links

* [http://www.niagaramuseum.com/ The Niagara Falls Museum]