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The Canada Science and Technology Museum, a former bakery building turned into a makeshift museum, has been closed indefinitely because of mould that’s contaminating its air.
“The detection of unacceptable levels of airborne mould has prompted the closure of the Canada Science and Technology Museum (CSTM) for an indeterminate period,” the museum announced in a statement issued after business hours Thursday.
The museum went through an annual weeklong closing period for maintenance, during which time workers found mould permeating the southern wall. Air tests followed, revealing that the air quality was unacceptable.
Museum officials are consulting contractors, and say they don’t know how long remediation will take. Until that work is finished, the museum will stay closed.
The museum was suddenly evacuated Thursday after finding “unacceptable levels of mould in the air,” the statement said.
The museum has just been given a new president, Alex Benay.
“We took action as soon as the situation was discovered,” said the museum’s newly named president, Alex Benay. “We will continue to show the same transparency following the evolution of the situation.”
Since 1967 when it opened, the museum has been housed in a building once owned by a bakery. The location was meant to be temporary.
“It looks like a dollar store,” former president Denise Amyot told the Citizen in 2009. “I’m ashamed of that. It’s not functional like it should be. I do not think we should celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada (in 2017) at that location.”
The cramped quarters have meant that most of the vast collection — roughly 98 per cent of it — cannot be displayed. There are storage buildings with cars, aircraft, electrical generating equipment, boats, bicycles, snowmobiles and many more artifacts from Canada’s technological history that the public never sees.
Amyot travelled across Canada to get public input on what Canadians want for the museum, trying to build support for cross-country exhibitions and shared projects such as distance education.
Three locations were identified as suitable: beside Place Jacques Cartier near the former Canadian Museum of Civilization, behind the Canadian War Museum and beside the Canada Aviation Museum. A fourth — the former E.B. Eddy site — was also studied.
But the drive to move to a grander new location stalled, likely for lack of money.
On Thursday, as the NCC said it would seek private-sector suggestions on how to develop land at LeBreton Flats, some speculated it could provide a new home to the museum
Health Canada warns that mould in air can cause eye, nose and throat irritation; coughing and phlegm build-up; wheezing and shortness of breath; and allergic reactions.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
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“The detection of unacceptable levels of airborne mould has prompted the closure of the Canada Science and Technology Museum (CSTM) for an indeterminate period,” the museum announced in a statement issued after business hours Thursday.
The museum went through an annual weeklong closing period for maintenance, during which time workers found mould permeating the southern wall. Air tests followed, revealing that the air quality was unacceptable.
Museum officials are consulting contractors, and say they don’t know how long remediation will take. Until that work is finished, the museum will stay closed.
The museum was suddenly evacuated Thursday after finding “unacceptable levels of mould in the air,” the statement said.
The museum has just been given a new president, Alex Benay.
“We took action as soon as the situation was discovered,” said the museum’s newly named president, Alex Benay. “We will continue to show the same transparency following the evolution of the situation.”
Since 1967 when it opened, the museum has been housed in a building once owned by a bakery. The location was meant to be temporary.
“It looks like a dollar store,” former president Denise Amyot told the Citizen in 2009. “I’m ashamed of that. It’s not functional like it should be. I do not think we should celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada (in 2017) at that location.”
The cramped quarters have meant that most of the vast collection — roughly 98 per cent of it — cannot be displayed. There are storage buildings with cars, aircraft, electrical generating equipment, boats, bicycles, snowmobiles and many more artifacts from Canada’s technological history that the public never sees.
Amyot travelled across Canada to get public input on what Canadians want for the museum, trying to build support for cross-country exhibitions and shared projects such as distance education.
Three locations were identified as suitable: beside Place Jacques Cartier near the former Canadian Museum of Civilization, behind the Canadian War Museum and beside the Canada Aviation Museum. A fourth — the former E.B. Eddy site — was also studied.
But the drive to move to a grander new location stalled, likely for lack of money.
On Thursday, as the NCC said it would seek private-sector suggestions on how to develop land at LeBreton Flats, some speculated it could provide a new home to the museum
Health Canada warns that mould in air can cause eye, nose and throat irritation; coughing and phlegm build-up; wheezing and shortness of breath; and allergic reactions.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
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