Robert J. Sawyer

Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

Marvel Super Heroes Science Exhbition: save your money

by Rob - March 5th, 2007.
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I was going to write a long blog entry about how lame, disappointing, and just downright dull and pathetic the “Mavel Super Heroes Science Exhibition” currently on at the Ontario Science Centre (and traveling to other museums) is, but I don’t have time, so this will have to do. Save your money. I have seen many great traveling exhibitions at the Ontario Science Centre over the years, including The Art of the Muppets and Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds, but this one was just awful.

Also: the Ontario Science Centre is just falling apart, and the few extant exhibits (there’s lots and lots of empty space) are dated and uninteresting. I have very fond memories of that place, but it needs a complete overhaul. I’m normally a very proud Toronto tour guide when I have visitors from out-of-town, but on Friday, I had time to take my friend Bev Geddes, visiting from Winnipeg, to only one place before Ad Astra began, and since the Science Centre is right by the Ad Astra hotel, we went there — and I was ashamed.

They’ve simply shut down the horribly dated Apollo-era space gallery and computer gallery, taken away the giant laser, and replaced them with … well, not much. Ugh.

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