Kid Icarus - Ontario Science Centre 12" x 16" print
A print to commemorate the Ontario Science Centre, featuring the Omnimax (IMAX Dome) theatre and the Teluscape Exploration Plaza.
Designed and hand-printed in Kid Icarus' Toronto studio.
5 colour screen print. Printed on an acid free FSC paper using waterbased inks.
Measures 12 x 16 inches.
Available online, and in-store at 205 Augusta Avenue, Toronto. (416) 977-7236
Please Touch Everything
A History of the Ontario Science Centre
By Joan Francuz
Foreword by Bob McDonald
Available June 16, 2026
Description:
The story of the revolutionary Ontario Science Centre, its iconic exhibits, and the people who made it all happen.
A Centennial project announced by Premier John Robarts in 1964, the Ontario Science Centre upended the traditional museum instruction — Don’t Touch — and created a whole new category of visitor attraction. Its designers, scientists, and craftspeople developed a way to explain science to the public by building mechanical devices for visitors to touch. Exhibits like the bicycle generator, and iconic demonstrations like the electricity show that made your hair stand on end, even those long escalators in that landmark building beside a Toronto ravine inspired generations of young people to pursue careers in science.
The Ontario Science Centre also changed the way that traditional museums and art galleries now interpret their collections to the public, and helped create an industry around this thing called interactivity. Its legacy is the contribution that it made to the public understanding of science. That work is even more remarkable when you consider that it was created inside a government institution, under a cloud of senior managers of varying competencies, and politicians with changing agendas who closed its doors in the summer of 2024.
To see what everyone has seen and think what no one has thought
By Lister Sinclair
Publication information:
[Don Mills, Ontario, Canada]: Centennial Centre of Science and Technology, c1969
Language:
English
Format:
Regular Print Book
Physical Description:
62, [2], [16] pages: colour illustrations; 26 cm.
General Note:
"The first section of this book was... intended to help us understand science and the world in which we live. The second section... is an attempt to catalogue a few of the many exhibits within the smaller world of this science centre."
Contributor:
Ontario Science Centre
Source:
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2701132&R=2701132