The museums continued to operate from its original building in Glenora, Edmonton until it was closed to the public in December 2015.

Second floor galleries were less incomplete, but featured exhibits on agriculture; "pioneer" life; and industry and commerce.

In 1968, new exhibits portraying Alberta's dinosaurs and "Adaptations for Survival" were added to the natural history section, and permanent exhibits of "Vehicles of Alberta's Past", "Uniforms of RCMP Superintendent H. C. Forbes", "R. R. Gonsett, Inventor" and "Early Building in Saskatchewan" were added to the human history section.

The same year, a diorama of Pronghorns was created as the first of sixteen planned displays of Alberta's natural habitat.

[9] A new permanent "Earth Science Gallery" was partially opened in December 1993, though not fully completed until the following May.

[9] This gallery was later complemented with a large purchase from the family of James Carnegie at a Sotheby's auction on 8 May 2006.

[21] In April 2011, it was announced that a new building for the Royal Alberta Museum would be built in Downtown Edmonton, north of the city hall and Law Courts, and east of the CN Tower, on the land formerly occupied by Canada Post's Edmonton station.

Bigger than Dinosaurs (1992), Sharks: Facts and Fantasy (1993), Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats (1994), Carnosaurs!

(1995), Bugsworld (1996), Genghis Khan (1997), Syria-Land of Civilizations (2001) and International Wildlife Photographer of the Year (2003).