World's Largest Gold Pan

Burwash Landing, Yukon, Canada

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A gold pan that Travel Yukon places next to the Kluane Museum of History at Burwash Landing, Yukon. Travel Yukon and the Yukon First Nations Culture and Tourism Association call it the "World's Largest Gold Pan"; the Kluane Museum's website calls it the "world's largest gold pan".

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Site-level location · 61.3543° N, 138.9982° W

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Travel Yukon's listing for the Kluane Museum of History at Burwash Landing, Yukon, tells visitors to "Watch for the World's Largest Gold Pan located next to the museum". The Indigenous Yukon listing, from the Yukon First Nations Culture and Tourism Association, also uses the phrase "World's Largest Gold Pan" next to the museum, names the museum the Kluane Museum of Natural History, and places it at Historic Mile 1093 on the Alaska Highway. The museum's own website invites visitors to "take a selfie with the world's largest gold pan" and gives its address, on its Hours/Admission and Location page, as Mile 1093 Alaska Highway, Burwash Landing.

All three pages use "world's largest" as their own description. None of the three pages cites a record-keeping body for the title or gives a size, builder or date.

Travel Yukon says the museum's parking lot, with two entrances, makes it easy for vehicles as big as transport trucks to pull through. Its undated listing says the museum will be open mid May to mid September, from 10 till 4 on most days, and asks visitors to email or call ahead to ensure it is open. The museum's own Hours/Admission and Location page (undated, no year given) gives a season of May 15 to September 15, open seven days a week from 9:00am to 4:30pm, with adult admission at $10.00. The two sources give different opening hours (10 till 4 on most days against 9:00am to 4:30pm daily), and neither Travel Yukon's listing nor the museum's page dates its hours. Those hours and fees are the museum's; neither Travel Yukon's listing nor the museum's Hours/Admission and Location page says whether they apply to seeing the gold pan.

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Next to the Kluane Museum of History at Burwash Landing, Yukon, per Travel Yukon. The museum gives its address as Mile 1093 Alaska Highway, and the Indigenous Yukon listing gives Historic Mile 1093 on the Alaska Highway. Travel Yukon says the museum's parking lot, with two entrances, makes it easy for vehicles as big as transport trucks to pull through.

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Travel Yukon's undated listing says the museum will be open mid May to mid September, 10 till 4 on most days, and asks visitors to email or call ahead. The museum's own hours page gives May 15 to September 15, 9:00am to 4:30pm, seven days a week, adult admission $10.00. Neither Travel Yukon's listing nor the museum's hours page says whether the gold pan can be seen when the museum is closed or whether admission applies to it.

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