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Canadian Museum of Nature unveils Landscapes of Canada Gardens exhibit

A new outdoor exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature allows visitors to experience Canada's north, and get a taste of the landscape inhabited by woolly mammoths during the last ice age.

New exhibit opens Saturday

Botanist Paul Sokoloff, with the Canadian Museum of Nature, helped design the exhibit. (Hallie Cotnam/CBC)

A new outdoor exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature allows visitorsto experience Canada's north, and get a taste of the landscape inhabited bywoolly mammoths during the last ice age.

The Landscapes of Canada Gardens exhibit opens Saturday.

The outdoor space on the museum's property features about 40 native species of trees and plants typically found in Canada's boreal forest, Arctic tundra and prairie grasslands.

PaulSokoloff,abotanistwith the museum, helped design the garden.

"We worked really hard with our landscapearchitectsto pick species that grow upinthetundra but are also able togrow in this area," said Sokoloff.

These woolly mammoths are part of the new outdoor exhibit. ( Hallie Cotnam/CBC)

A fourth section, the Mammoth Steppe, recreates an ice age habitat complete with life-size sculptures of a mammoth family.

Park benches, and a picnic area provide spots to relax or take in the gardens.

(Hallie Cotnam/CBC)

Access to the Landscape of Canada Gardens is free and the space is open year-round.