Ontario Science Centre

The Ontario Science Centre is a science museum in Toronto, near the Don Valley Parkway about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) northeast of downtown on Don Mills Road. It is built down the side of a wooded ravine formed by one branch of the Don River located in Flemingdon Park. Planning for the Science Centre started in 1961 during Toronto’s massive expansion of the late 1950s and 1960s. In 1964, Toronto architect Raymond Moriyama was hired to design the site. Construction started in 1966 with plans to make it a part of the city’s 1967 Canadian Centennial celebrations. It was first officially named the “Centennial Centre of Science and Technology”. However construction was not complete in 1967, and the Science Centre did not open to the public till 1969. The Centre has several hundred interactive and passive exhibits, featuring geology, the science of nature, astronomical science, human anatomy, communication and bias, and some miscellaneous artifacts of science.