Ontario Science Centre

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Ontario Science Centre (OSC) science museum Toronto, Ontario, Canada, D Valley Parkway about 11 northeast downtown D Mills R j south Eglinton Avenue E. I built wooded ravine formed y branch D River.

Planning centre started 1961 during Toronto's massive expansion 1950s 1960s. I 1964 famous Toronto architect Raymond Moriyama hired design . T innovative design, consisting three buildings connected y series bridges escalators, follows natural contours D River ravine, which Centre descends. Construction started 1966 plans p city's 1967 Canadian Centennial celebrations. I officially named Centennial Centre Science Technology. However construction complete 1967, OSC p public until years later, September 1969.

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

T centre g attraction 1970s, y early 1980s visiting rates dropped considerably. M displays originals, either outdated, , broken. During 1990s these issues addressed y opening OSC corporate funding. I 1996 province's first OMNIMAX theatre opened expanded entranceway area, additional changes followed. T recent these changes $40 million Agents Change project, final phase which opened J 2006.

T current major exhibition Science Centre Facing M: Would y survive journey, exhibition designed -house, opened J 9, 2008. I explore challenges sending humans another planet, hands- experiences include rocket-building, space surgery, chance experience simulated Martian gravity.

T Centre several hundred interactive passive exhibits throughout buildings. Ty feature everything science nature. Ty feature geology, science nature ( g), astronomical science, py music technology south wing, human anatomy, communication bias, miscellaneous artifacts science. T astronomical wing, which closed renovation since Pluto's demotion August 2006, refurbished reopened public, featuring Toronto's y operating planetarium, M rocks public display Canada.

T OSC 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' By Worlds 2: T Anatomical Exhibition R Human Bodies

Marvel Comics exhibition

exhibit about Titanic