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Workers will likely have to tear out the beloved Crazy Kitchen to fix the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
But don’t worry: the much-loved crooked little room will probably be back later, as crooked as before. Maybe even with fresh arborite.
The 1960s kitchen, with its sloping floor and the walls and floor that trick the rain, is a permanent installation on the museum’s exhibit floor.
It’s the biggest attraction, making visitors dizzy with delight since 1967.
Now the floor has to go, and the kitchen will almost certainly have to move out.
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A museum official adds that “it’s a pretty safe bet it’ll be back . . . in the refurbished museum when it reopens.”
As for the question of sending it out on loan during the reno, it’s too early to tell. The museum staff is still scrambling to figure out what the overall $80.5-million job is going to entail.
Several years ago, Glenda Krusberg, who designed the kitchen in 1967, explained to reporter Andrew Duffy how a simple room is more than our brains can handle.
“The whole point was this (a kitchen) was someplace you normally feel comfortable,” she said. “Then you make them walk through this kitchen and it’s not very comfortable at all because your perceptions are all cockeyed: your eyes are telling you one thing and your inner ear, which controls your balance, is telling you another.”
One corner of the room is lifted about half a metre to angle the floor at 12 degrees. Meanwhile, everything else — lines in the checkered wallpaper, on the red gingham curtains, on the wainscotting and between the bricks outside the window — informs your brain that the room is perfectly normal. We can’t compute the conflicting data. Motion sickness is the result.
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But don’t worry: the much-loved crooked little room will probably be back later, as crooked as before. Maybe even with fresh arborite.
The 1960s kitchen, with its sloping floor and the walls and floor that trick the rain, is a permanent installation on the museum’s exhibit floor.
It’s the biggest attraction, making visitors dizzy with delight since 1967.
Now the floor has to go, and the kitchen will almost certainly have to move out.
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A museum official adds that “it’s a pretty safe bet it’ll be back . . . in the refurbished museum when it reopens.”
As for the question of sending it out on loan during the reno, it’s too early to tell. The museum staff is still scrambling to figure out what the overall $80.5-million job is going to entail.
Several years ago, Glenda Krusberg, who designed the kitchen in 1967, explained to reporter Andrew Duffy how a simple room is more than our brains can handle.
“The whole point was this (a kitchen) was someplace you normally feel comfortable,” she said. “Then you make them walk through this kitchen and it’s not very comfortable at all because your perceptions are all cockeyed: your eyes are telling you one thing and your inner ear, which controls your balance, is telling you another.”
One corner of the room is lifted about half a metre to angle the floor at 12 degrees. Meanwhile, everything else — lines in the checkered wallpaper, on the red gingham curtains, on the wainscotting and between the bricks outside the window — informs your brain that the room is perfectly normal. We can’t compute the conflicting data. Motion sickness is the result.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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