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The Biosphere, also known as the Montreal Biosphere (French: Biosphère de Montréal), is a museum dedicated to the environment in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is housed in the former United States pavilion constructed for Expo 67 located within the grounds of Parc Jean-Drapeau on Saint Helen's Island .
Espace pour la vie is a museum district in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists of five natural museums: the Biosphere, Biodome, Planetarium, Botanical Garden and Insectarium. [1] Space for life ( Biodome and Planetarium ), Montréal, 2024. Espace pour la vie was established in 2011 as a successor body to Montreal Nature Museums. [2]
The Montreal Biodome (French: Biodôme de Montréal) is a museum of enclosed ecosystems located at Olympic Park in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas.
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It consists of five natural museums: the Biosphere, the Biodome, the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium, the Botanical Garden and the Insectarium. The Biosphere is a museum dedicated to the environment, housed in the former United States pavilion constructed for Expo 67. It is located in Parc Jean-Drapeau, on Saint Helen's Island. The Biodome, a ...
Montreal was the host of the 1976 Summer Olympic Games. The stadium cost $1.5 billion; [208] with interest that figure ballooned to nearly $3 billion, and was paid off in December 2006. [209] Montreal also hosted the first ever World Outgames in the summer of 2006, attracting over 16,000 participants engaged in 35 sporting activities.
Children at the Montreal Botanical Garden in 1941. The botanical garden is located at 4101 Sherbrooke Street East, at the corner of Pie-IX and Sherbrooke Streets, in Maisonneuve Park, located in the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, facing Montreal's Olympic Stadium. It contains a greenhouse complex full of plants from around the world ...
Several important attractions are found on the island, including the Saint Helen Island Fort, the La Ronde amusement park, the Biosphere (an interpretative museum about the Saint Lawrence River installed in the former American Pavilion from Expo), and an Aquatic Complex (French: Complexe aquatique de l'île Sainte-Hélène) that includes three exterior pools.