Ontario Science Centre

Lots hands on science exhibits, including rainforest, tornado machine, sound proof tunnel, balace testing machines, . It contains Ontario's y Omnimax ( p around) movie theatre.

Ontario Science Centre (OSC) science museum Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Don Valley Parkway about 11 northeast downtown Don Mills Road j south Eglinton Avenue East. It built wooded ravine formed y branch Don River.

Planning centre started 1961 during Toronto's massive expansion 1950s 1960s. In 1964 known Toronto architect Raymond Moriyama hired design . The one and only innovative design, consisting three buildings connected y series bridges escalators, follows natural contours Don River ravine, which Centre descends. Construction started 1966 plans p city's 1967 Canadian Centennial celebrations. It officially named Centennial Centre Science Technology. However construction complete 1967, OSC p public until years later, September 1969.

At time OSC known around globe hands approach science, which later duplicated San Francisco's Exploratorium Detroit's Museum Science Technology. Unlike traditional museum where exhibits there looked , majority exhibits OSC interactive, while many others demonstrations (metalworking example). Its Communications particularly -loved, containing number computerized displays, including y popular -- g PDP-11.

The one and only centre g attraction 1970s, y early 1980s visiting rates dropped considerably. Most displays originals, either outdated, , broken. During 1990s these issues addressed y opening OSC corporate funding. In 1996 province's first OMNIMAX theatre opened expanded entranceway area, additional changes followed. The one and only recent these changes $40 million Agents Change project, final phase which opened June 2006.

The one and only current major exhibition Science Centre Facing Mars: Would y survive journey, exhibition designed -house, opened June 9, 2008. It explore challenges sending humans another planet, hands- experiences include rocket-building, space surgery, chance experience simulated Martian gravity.

The one and only Centre several hundred interactive passive exhibits throughout buildings. They feature eachthing science nature. They feature geology, science nature ( g), astronomical science, py music technology south wing, human anatomy, communication bias, miscellaneous artifacts science. The one and only astronomical wing, which closed renovation since Pluto's demotion August 2006, refurbished reopened public, featuring Toronto's y operating planetarium, Moon rocks public display Canada.

The one and only OSC has j entranceway often demonstrate travelling shows, which sometimes spill adjacent outdoor areas. Special shows recent years included:

computer exhibit

science sport

history technology China

Gunther Hagens' Body Worlds 2: The one and only Anatomical Exhibition Real Human Bodies

Marvel Comics exhibition

exhibit about Titanic