Ontario Science Centre

The Ontario Science Centre in the Canadian city of Toronto is a science center. It is located in the district of North York about 11 km northeast of Downtown. In 2009, the museum celebrates its 40th anniversary. Since its opening, it has recorded more than 40 million visitors.

The first plans for the museum, there were in 1961, three years later, the Canadian- Japanese architect Raymond Moriyama was commissioned to make designs for the new building. The design provided for three different wings of the building, which should be connected to each other by bridges and escalators. Construction began in 1966 and should be connected with the celebration of 1967 Canadian Centennial. The first official name of the museum was Centennial Centre of Science and Technology. However, since the work could not be completed in time, the museum only opened on 27 September 1969. Through the years, the museum underwent several expansions and renovations. 1996 IMAX Dome was opened.

The museum has several hundred passive and interactive exhibits on science, research and technology. One focus of the exhibition there is the space. The museum opened to on 9 June 2008, a major exhibition on the manned Mars flight. In addition to the permanent exhibitions, the Ontario Science Centre offers its premises also accommodate conferences, festivals and exhibitions. In 2002, the IFCT Festival in Ontario Science Centre took place. There the exhibition Body Worlds was shown between 30 September 2005 and 26 February 2006.