Ontario Science Centre, Science museum in Toronto, Canada.
The Ontario Science Centre is a science museum in Toronto, Canada, that extends across multiple building levels connected by escalators and pedestrian walkways. The exhibition spaces are distributed across different areas and cover topics from physics, biology, technology, and astronomy.
The centre opened in late September 1969 and was designed by architect Raymond Moriyama, who created a modern concrete building with clean lines. The facility arose as part of the celebrations for Canadian scientific progress in the province.
The facility takes its name from the province of Ontario and serves as a meeting point for school groups, families, and curious visitors of all ages. Many exhibits invite touching and experimenting, allowing guests to interact directly with physical phenomena or biological processes.
The Don Mills Road building closed in June 2024 after an engineering report found a high risk of roof collapse, so check the current venue before travelling. The museum now runs KidSpark at Harbourfront Centre as its interim home, with an expansion planned for summer 2026. From 2023 until the closure, a shuttle bus linked the entrance to the Level 6 exhibit area because of decay in the pedestrian bridge.
At its 1969 opening the Centre's slogan was "Come see what would happen if Albert Einstein and Walt Disney had gotten together." Early exhibits included a simulated lunar-module landing, a tic-tac-toe game run on a PDP-11 minicomputer, and a simulated hot cell.
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