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  • Friday, March 06, 2020 10:24 AM | Deleted user


    THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener is hoping to expand and could be in line for help from the city of Kitchener.

    City staff is recommending a proposal to front the Museum $3 million to buy the neighbouring BMO building on the corner of King Street and Queen Street in Kitchener.

    THEMUSEUM has plans to use the space to add new programing and more teaching space.

    If approved, THEMUSEUM says they will knock down the old bank and create something new.

    “Ultimately we’ll come out with a plan to raze that building, take it down, connect it to our building, and bring something really cool architecturally to the concern of King and Queen Street,” said David Marksell, CEO of THEMUSEUM.

    If the city buys the property THEMUSEUM will have ten years fundraise the money for their expansion plan.

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  • Friday, March 06, 2020 10:19 AM | Deleted user


    WINNIPEG -- The CEO of the Manitoba Museum is retiring after being in the role for more than two decades.

    The museum announced Wednesday Claudette Leclerc will be retiring as of March 31, 2021. Leclerc has been the CEO and executive director of the Manitoba Museum for 23 years. 

    “It has been a tremendous honour to have served the Manitoba Museum alongside an incredible team of museum professionals for more than 20 years, so this was not an easy decision to make,” said Leclerc in a news release. “My passion for, and support of, the Manitoba Museum will never change.”

    The Museum said Leclerc began her career in Manitoba’s arts and culture community in 1984 through leading the Winnipeg International Children’s Festival. She then worked for the Folk Arts Council, before joining the Manitoba Museum in 1998. The Museum said she is its longest-serving CEO and executive director in its 50-year history. 

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  • Friday, March 06, 2020 10:17 AM | Deleted user


    For the first time in 20 years, live theatre is back at the TELUS World of Science’s Zeidler Dome.

    Girl in the Machine explores digital dependency and human relationships with the help of a 360-degree visual experience. The Dome’s digital visualization theatre features 10K resolution.

    “It’s a dystopian drama that focuses on a couple and what happens to them when a mysterious black box enters their house,” explained artistic producer and director Brenley Charkow. “[The dome] was the perfect space. The audience can experience exactly what the character is feeling.”

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  • Friday, February 21, 2020 10:52 AM | Deleted user


    Wannabe astronauts attending the Telus World of Science Edmonton (TWOS) S.P.A.C.E explorers camp came away inspired after a virtual presentation from the Canadian Space Agency on Tuesday.

    They linked up with Magdalena Wierus, a Project Engineer on the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, for a video conference.

    She spoke to students in Edmonton for 30 minutes from the CSA headquarters in Saint-Hubert, Quebec about the International Space Station and Canada’s contribution to the program.

    Wierus also explored and promoted exciting science and technology careers available beyond being an astronaut.

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  • Friday, February 21, 2020 10:47 AM | Deleted user


    The largest anti-bullying event of the year takes place this month, and the Okanagan Science Centre is inviting people to wear pink and take a stand.

    For Pink Shirt Day on Feb. 26, the science centre is hosting two events — one geared towards children and the other parents.

    The anti-bullying for children workshop, led by Breakthrough Martial Arts owner/instructor Rob Rinas, will teach little ones how to diffuse confrontation without violence.

    During the one-hour introduction, children will gain valuable strategies to help them confidently handle a bully.

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  • Friday, February 21, 2020 10:45 AM | Deleted user


    When you think about the future, what do you imagine life might be like in Canada? What will our homes be like…and what technologies will make our daily lives easier? Will we all travel by flying cars, and could they take us to other planets? Will our food look the same?

    In the spirit of playfulness and creativity, the Canada Science and Technology Museum invites Ingenium members to “Imagine the Future.” Participants are invited to use their personal LEGO® bricks to create their own vision for Canada's future — however they may want to interpret that. Submissions should be built ahead of time and brought to the Museum for consideration in the contest.

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  • Friday, February 14, 2020 10:31 AM | Deleted user


    Do you understand the power of your mind? The Ontario Science Centre launches its 2020 speaker series on The Mind in collaboration with Knowledge Partner, the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI). The series brings leading experts to share the latest research into the brain and how our minds work.

    Rooted in psychology, the Science Centre's latest exhibition MindWorks brings mental processes like decision-making, memory and emotions to life through colourful, playful and fun hands-on exhibits. Great Conversations is a special featured event of the Ontario Science Centre, designed to spark discussion, debate and discovery on fascinating topics in the world of science.

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  • Friday, February 14, 2020 10:28 AM | Deleted user


    The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is going to have an escape room exhibit opening in September, to help bring in more visitors and offer a fun, interactive way to learn.

    Executive Director of the museum, Linden Roberts, says they’ve been looking at different and unique ways to produce exhibits, and still convey content. She says escape rooms are very popular, and they reached out to Dr. Scott Nicholson, a Professor of Game Design at Wilfred Laurier University, who has been an advocate for the use of escape rooms in museums.

    Ovintiv, formerly known as Encana, has invested $40,000 in the museum, to help create the new attraction, and hire Nicholson to help develop the escape room exhibit.

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  • Friday, February 07, 2020 10:17 AM | Deleted user


    MONTREAL -- Girl scientists looking to expand their knowledge are being invited to take part in a free event at the Montreal Science Centre.

    According to officials, it's all part of celebrations for the UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

    The young women will have the chance to experiment and take part in numerous interactive workshops on battery production, robot programming and living neurons.

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  • Tuesday, February 04, 2020 11:16 AM | Deleted user


    Interpretation of Field is a collaborative project housed at Faculty of Information, the University of Toronto, designed to document and share current practices of interpretation professionals in four types of museums. Our main data-collecting tool is a survey, which we developed to take the pulse of contemporary practices in museum interpretation and to map out tools, strategies and knowledge used by practitioners. This research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada’s federal research funding agency. 

    If you are an interpretation professional working in an art museum/centre, an encyclopedic/general (multi-disciplinary) museum, a natural history/anthropology museum, or a science/technology museum/centre, we invite you to take our survey between Jan. 2 and March 1, 2020.

    Results will be available on the project’s website in Summer 2020.


    To complete the survey, visit: https://interpretationasfield.com/survey/

    To find out more about our project & team, visithttps://interpretationasfield.com/

    To sign up for project notifications, visithttps://interpretationasfield.com/resources/

     

    Thank you very much for your participation!

    Prof. Irina D. Mihalache, Project Lead

    irina.mihalache@utoronto.ca




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