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Ontario Science Centre workers say goodbye as repairs continue • Nov. 14, 2024, 5:03 AM ET (CBC)

Ontario Science Centre, science and technology museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1964 and officially opened in 1969 in Toronto’s Flemingdon Park neighborhood, it offered major collections in aeronautics, agriculture, anatomy, botany, mineralogy, textiles, and other areas. It also made available to the public an aquarium, arboretum, outdoor exhibits, and a theater. It closed in 2024.

Beginning in 1982, the Ontario Science Centre hosted a school program called the Ontario Science Centre Science School. Ontario secondary-school students completed one semester of school at the Science Centre while earning practicum hours by engaging in volunteer activities there and in the local community.

The Ontario Science Centre was permanently closed in June 2024 by the provincial government. A statement explained that the unexpectedly sudden closure was “due to the building’s deteriorating infrastructure, including the potential for roof failure due to snow load as early as this winter.” In April 2023 Ontario’s government had announced that the Science Centre would be relocated to Toronto’s lakefront, with the planned opening of that facility in 2028.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by J.E. Luebering.