Science Museum of London, EnglandI just finished reading
One Man Committee's
idea of a city museum for Winnipeg's 150th birthday in 2024. I fully support the idea.
I'm glad he likes the idea I had for the Manitoba to have a dedicated science museum. I have been advocating it for a bit and I did notice in the last months that the
Free Press mentioned it in
passing as well.
The
Manitoba Museum presently has the science gallery. I believe the province should have a full science museum rather than just the one gallery. The present science gallery's 6000 square feet was renovated in 2007 and is quite good but the merits of a full science museum cannot be denied. Just off the top of my head, there could be galleries on a variety of sciences and technologies that have been important to Manitoba historically.
I'd hate to lose the old science gallery but it certainly can be moved to a new building. The same cannot be said for the planetarium. If a new science museum is built with a connecting tunnel, the planetarium should be part its mandate. The 6000 square feet of the present science gallery could be used for other uses, not the least of which could be a full museum shop that replace the embarrassingly small shop in the lobby outside the
Manitoba Museum.
The 4000 square foot
Alloway Hall could be continued to be used for temporary exhibits of the Manitoba Museum.
As has been pointed out by the
Free Press, the 22,000 square feet of
MTS Exhibition Hall across from the
MTS Centre is just the right size to attract big travelling science shows. However, it is temporary.
Any new science museum should have at least 20 to 25,000 feet of space to host these big touring events.
If
Winnipeg is lucky, it might have a museum of the the same level that we see
London or closer to home in
Minneapolis.
Now, in terms of what we should see for a Winnipeg Museum, I open the hall to suggestions!
1 comment:
omg! Minneapolis looks just like when I left it. The same hi tech city I knew ! MNPL RULES
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