Description of the attraction
The Canadian Museum of Science and Technology is located on Boulevard Saint Laurent south of Queensway (Route 417). The museum was founded in 1967 as part of a large-scale celebration of the "Centenary of the Confederation of Canada", organized by the government and stretching for a whole year, and became the first museum in Canada to display interactive exhibits. The museum was created with the aim of acquainting the public with the history of innovations in the field of science and technology and their impact on the development of Canada, as well as popularizing this knowledge among the younger generation.
The collection of the museum is very extensive and varied, with over 40,000 exhibits. The exposition perfectly illustrates the development of such spheres of human activity as communications, energy, forestry, mining and automobile industry, rail and sea transport, space technologies and much more. The largest exhibits of the collection are presented in the so-called "Technology Park" of the museum - this is an old lighthouse, built in 1856 and originally located on Cape Race of Newfoundland Island, a CN 6200 steam locomotive, a Convair Atlas rocket, a rocker (a type of ground drive of a deep rod pump used in the operation of oil wells) and the Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg observatory, which houses a fifteen-inch refractor telescope from the Dominion Observatory. The museum is famous for its excellent library.
Today, the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology is one of the most interesting and popular attractions in the Canadian capital. In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum regularly hosts specialized temporary exhibitions, as well as thematic conferences, seminars and lectures. The management of the museum pays special attention to the organization of entertaining general education programs for schoolchildren.
