{"id":1757,"date":"2011-09-17T19:22:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T02:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2012-05-26T19:47:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T02:47:45","slug":"ottawa-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

2011\/09\/17<\/p>\n

Today was all about hitting the local museums.\u00a0 I got a multi-museum passport that covers something like 11 of them.<\/p>\n

Canadian Museum of Science & Technology<\/a><\/p>\n

This was actually very much like the Ontario Science Center, though a bit smaller and with fewer interactive exhibits.<\/p>\n

They had some steam locomotives that you could go inside the cabins of, which was cool.<\/p>\n

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There was an exhibit on Canadian-made automotives.\u00a0 This one was steam-powered, manufactured by a jeweler and had no brakes:<\/p>\n

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And I’m sure you all recognize this lovely little thing:<\/p>\n

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A mock-up of the cargo bay control area of the Space Shuttle (yes, with a Canadarm and no, you couldn’t move it):<\/p>\n

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Mockup of a Tokamak fusion generator. Sadly nonfunctional, but it had pulsating purple lights inside, and that’s always impressive.<\/p>\n

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Quite a few other interesting exhibits, but like most educational museum-type stuff, not terribly photogenic.<\/p>\n

Canadian Aviation and Space Museum<\/a><\/p>\n

Sadly I wasn’t able to get one of the biplane rides<\/a> today, but for reference they do allow cameras on the flights. I wanted to take the flight over the parliament buildings.\u00a0 Oh well, next time.<\/p>\n

The rest of the museum is pretty nice.\u00a0 Assorted pictures:<\/p>\n

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And yes, that hangar would make a great storage room, workshop and living space for me.<\/p>\n

Canadian Museum of Civilization<\/a><\/p>\n

Which includes the relatively small Canadian Postal Museum (mainly about the origins of mail delivery and postage stamps, with a very large collection of Canadian stamps) and Canadian Childrens’ Museum (mostly interactive stuff for kids).<\/p>\n

It’s a decent museum, but…<\/p>\n

I liked the postal museum especially,<\/p>\n

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but the large section on aboriginal history didn’t interest me much,<\/p>\n

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(although this looks awfully familiar<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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and the well done Canadian history section was for me a repeat of the more authentic stuff I’ve seen at regional museums and places like Upper Canada Village, so I didn’t take a whole lot of pictures.<\/p>\n

They did have an interesting temporary exhibit on Japan, but photos weren’t allowed in that section.\u00a0 That’s pretty typical of museums, I’ve found – no flash photography, and no photography in the temporary exhibits for some reason.<\/p>\n

Shot of Parliament and the core hotel from the museum grounds:<\/p>\n

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And that pretty much ate up the whole day.\u00a0 Still a couple of museums, the art gallery and the mint that I haven’t seen, but they can wait for another visit, another time.<\/p>\n

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