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The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies on Bear Street in Banff opened in 1968, the idea of the Banff artists Peter and Catharine Whyte. Its art galleries and Heritage Gallery show the art and cultural history of the Canadian Rockies, it holds an archive and library, and its grounds include historic log homes and cabins.
The Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum stands beside the Bow River in Banff, in a museum Norman Luxton began building in the early 1950s. It presents the cultures of the First Nations of the Northern Plains and Canadian Rockies, among them the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Stoney Nakoda and the Tsuut'ina, with regalia, a decorated tipi, quillwork and hunting equipment.
The Cave and Basin National Historic Site in Banff preserves the warm mineral springs whose discovery by railway workers in 1883 led to the reserve of 1885 that became Banff National Park, the first in Canada. Visitors walk through a tunnel into the cave pool, see the open-air basin, and visit exhibits in the restored 1914 stone bathhouse.
The Banff Gondola carries visitors 698 metres up Sulphur Mountain, above the town of Banff, in an eight-minute ride. The summit building at 2,281 metres has an interpretive centre, a theatre, restaurants and a rooftop observation deck, and a boardwalk leads to Sanson's Peak and the Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station National Historic Site.
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