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Science North is an interactive science museum in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. [1]The science centre, which is Northern Ontario's most popular tourist attraction, consists of two snowflake-shaped buildings on the southwestern shore of Ramsey Lake, just south of the downtown core, [1] and a former ice hockey arena which includes the complex's entrance and an IMAX theatre. [2]
Dynamic Earth is an interactive earth sciences museum in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Owned-and-operated by Science North, Dynamic Earth builds on the city's mining heritage, focusing principally on geology and mining history exhibitions. The centre, which opened in 2003, is home to the Big Nickel, one of the city's most famous landmarks. [1]
The Science North main building. Science North is an interactive science museum. The complex, which is Northern Ontario's most popular tourist attraction, consists of two snowflake-shaped buildings on the southwestern shore of Lake Ramsey, just south of the city's downtown core, as well as a former ice hockey arena which includes the complex's ...
The Big Nickel is a nine-metre (30 ft) replica of a 1951 Canadian nickel, located at the grounds of the Dynamic Earth science museum in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, and is the world's largest depiction of a coin. [1]
Science North is an interactive science museum and Northern Ontario's most popular tourist attraction [145] with around 288,000 visitors per year (as of 2018). [146] It consists of two snowflake-shaped buildings on the southwestern shore of Ramsey Lake and just south of the city's downtown core.
Ramsey Lake (French: Lac Ramsey) is a lake in Sudbury, Ontario, located near the city's downtown core. Until 2001, Ramsey Lake was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest lake located entirely within the boundaries of a single city, [citation needed] but when the Regional Municipality of Sudbury was amalgamated into the current city of Greater Sudbury, Ramsey Lake ...
Joining the teaching staff of Laurentian University in 1969, [2] Pearson was the founding director of Science North, the city's interactive science museum, from 1980 to 1986. He retained an advisory position with Science North after 1986, and returned as science director in 2007 following the departure of Alan Nursall from the institution. He ...
David Lickley is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, who makes IMAX-format science documentary films for the Science North Production Team in Sudbury, Ontario. [1]He is most noted as the director of the films Born to Be Wild, [2] which won the Genesis Award for Best Documentary Feature from The Humane Society of the United States in 2012, [3] and Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope, [4] which won a ...