Canada Science and Technology Museum

The main museum building on St Laurent Boulevard houses a number of permanent displays, as well as temporary exhibits of the museum’s collection and visiting exhibitions. The most famous (and oldest) of these exhibitions is the crazy kitchen, a room that is built on a tilted surface, thus causing gravity to pull visitors towards the wall, but has all its furniture nailed to the floor so they won’t fall, thus creating the illusion that the room is on an ordinary, flat surface. This competing information confuses visitors’ brains which makes them feel nauseous. Artifact Alley, which runs diagonally across the building, displays about 700 historical objects at any one time. The storage facility includes more than over 268000 artifacts, such as a prototype for a driverless rail car (ca. 1982), an Iron Lung once used at the Ottawa Civic Hospital (ca. 1950), and the Ontario Provincial Police’s first Unmanned Aerial vehicle (2005-2007).