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the other Canadian national museums, The Canadian Museum of Nature remains closed to the public until further notice to maintain health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, with regular reassessments during this unprecedented situation.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;
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18, 2020, the closure extends to scientific staff and facilities, including scientific collections and laboratories. Incoming and outgoing loans have been suspended, and institutions should not ship collections back or return specimen loans at this time.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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may continue to access collections information online, as well as news and future announcements via the CMN public website at
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Collection information may also be accessed through one of our collection information partners (GBIF and/or Canadensys).</span><span style="font-size:
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you have questions for a particular department or division, feel free to reach out to curatorial staff.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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you have general questions about the CMN loan program, feel free to reach out to me, Sean Tudor, Head, Collection Services and Information Management,
</span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language:FR-CA">Avec les autres musées nationaux du Canada, le Musée canadien de la nature reste fermé au public jusqu'à nouvel ordre pour maintenir la santé et la sécurité pendant la pandémie de COVID-19, avec des réévaluations
régulières pendant cette situation sans précédent.</span></p>
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<span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language:FR-CA">Dès le 18 mars 2020, la fermeture s'étend au personnel et aux installations scientifiques, y compris les collections scientifiques et les laboratoires. Les prêts entrants et sortants ont été suspendus, et les
institutions ne doivent pas renvoyer les collections ni retourner les spécimens de prêts pour le moment.</span></p>
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<span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language:FR-CA">Les chercheurs peuvent continuer d'accéder aux informations sur les collections en ligne, ainsi qu'aux nouvelles et annonces futures via le site Web public du MCN à
<a href="nature.ca">nature.ca</a>. Les informations sur la collecte sont également accessibles via l'un de nos partenaires d'informations sur la collecte (GBIF et / ou Canadensys).</span></p>
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<span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language:FR-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language:FR-CA">Si vous avez des questions pour un département ou une division en particulier, n'hésitez pas à contacter le personnel de conservation.</span></p>
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<span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language:FR-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language:FR-CA">Si vous avez des questions générales sur le programme de prêts du MCN, n'hésitez pas à me contacter, Sean Tudor, chef, Services de collections et gestion de l'information,
<span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline"><a href="mailto:studor@nature.ca">studor@nature.ca</a></span>.
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<span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-ansi-language:FR-CA">Merci et prenez soin de vous</span></p>
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