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The biggest news in the Canada Science and Technology Museum’s massive reconstruction is arguably a change of philosophy: It will open up far more of its collection to the public.
“We expect to at least double the number of artifacts on display in the museum,” Christine Tessier, director general of the museum, told reporters Monday.
She said there’s also a plan for “doing everything we can as we move forward with the reserve collection facility (i.e. artifact storage) to allow that to be an accessible space as well.”
This addresses two long-standing sore points. First, the old museum could display at most two per cent of all that it owns. Second, the reserve collection, in storage just behind the building that visitors see, is magnificent but doesn’t meet standards a display area needs to keep items safe and keep visitors safer.
The museum has had occasional guided tours for years — for instance, during the annual Doors Open Ottawa — but mostly this is sealed off from the public.
The collection includes generators, CT scanners, telephones, broadcasting gear, horse-drawn plows, Ottawa streetcars more than a century old, nuclear-reactor parts, printing presses with movable type, surveying instruments, a fishing boat, a Cold War survival kit and Ski-Doo number 1,000,001.
Tessier says overall space to show off science and technology will expand, though the new building will be the same size.
“There will be an additional 3,000 square feet of exhibition space” within the exhibition area of more than 80,000 square feet, she said.
A long gallery called Artefact Alley (the museum uses this spelling) will run through the centre of the new building and will display a revolving selection of artifacts, she said. That allows repeat visitors to see a greater variety.
Museum president Alex Benay said the demolition is progressing well, taking asbestos and mould with it. The foundation will remain, as will the plumbing. New walls will go up this winter.
Of the old exhibits, he said, only the locomotives and the Crazy Kitchen are left in place, wrapped against the elements. (And no, the $80.5-million budget has no provision for updating the kitchen’s arborite counters.)
“The experience changes from the moment you walk in,” he promised Monday.
This is a sketch of the planned demonstration stage.
There will be a central Demo Stage, where staff or visitors from universities and industry can put on demonstrations. There will be an exhibit dedicated to the world of steam power, and others on sound, on mining, and use of technology in our homes. There will be a place for children to tinker with technology — the real thing, not a computer copy.
The new building will have more daylight and better use of space, and will shift toward greater use of digital technology in order to reach a nation-wide audience.
It is due to re-open in the fall of 2017. So far, Benay says, the project is on schedule.
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“We expect to at least double the number of artifacts on display in the museum,” Christine Tessier, director general of the museum, told reporters Monday.
She said there’s also a plan for “doing everything we can as we move forward with the reserve collection facility (i.e. artifact storage) to allow that to be an accessible space as well.”
This addresses two long-standing sore points. First, the old museum could display at most two per cent of all that it owns. Second, the reserve collection, in storage just behind the building that visitors see, is magnificent but doesn’t meet standards a display area needs to keep items safe and keep visitors safer.
The museum has had occasional guided tours for years — for instance, during the annual Doors Open Ottawa — but mostly this is sealed off from the public.
The collection includes generators, CT scanners, telephones, broadcasting gear, horse-drawn plows, Ottawa streetcars more than a century old, nuclear-reactor parts, printing presses with movable type, surveying instruments, a fishing boat, a Cold War survival kit and Ski-Doo number 1,000,001.
Tessier says overall space to show off science and technology will expand, though the new building will be the same size.
“There will be an additional 3,000 square feet of exhibition space” within the exhibition area of more than 80,000 square feet, she said.
A long gallery called Artefact Alley (the museum uses this spelling) will run through the centre of the new building and will display a revolving selection of artifacts, she said. That allows repeat visitors to see a greater variety.
Museum president Alex Benay said the demolition is progressing well, taking asbestos and mould with it. The foundation will remain, as will the plumbing. New walls will go up this winter.
Of the old exhibits, he said, only the locomotives and the Crazy Kitchen are left in place, wrapped against the elements. (And no, the $80.5-million budget has no provision for updating the kitchen’s arborite counters.)
“The experience changes from the moment you walk in,” he promised Monday.
This is a sketch of the planned demonstration stage.
There will be a central Demo Stage, where staff or visitors from universities and industry can put on demonstrations. There will be an exhibit dedicated to the world of steam power, and others on sound, on mining, and use of technology in our homes. There will be a place for children to tinker with technology — the real thing, not a computer copy.
The new building will have more daylight and better use of space, and will shift toward greater use of digital technology in order to reach a nation-wide audience.
It is due to re-open in the fall of 2017. So far, Benay says, the project is on schedule.
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