Lake Winnipeg Exhibit Nears Opening

Lake Winnipeg Exhibit Nears Opening

Posted on by Scott Young
Posted on: Wednesday March 19, 2014

It’s nearly here, the culmination of five years of thought, research, design work, programming, and development. Lake Winnipeg: Shared Solutions (LWSS) opens on World Water Day, Saturday, March 22, 2014. It’s been a long process, and I still have to pinch myself to realize that we actually built this thing. It’s amazing to work on a project that is mostly spreadsheets and line drawings for so long, and then in a few short weeks have it sprout up all around you like a grove of new trees.

The Lake Winnipeg Shared Solutions exhibit in the Manitoba Museum Science Gallery. On the left, a curving divider wall displays a mural through the journey of water. On the right, a round table glows from eight embedded tablet screens.

A sloping water table in front of a wall-embedded fish tank. Above the area blue and green umbrellas hang upside-down, lit by spotlights in the ceiling.

You can get a sneak preview of the exhibit when CTV’s morning show visits on Thursday, March 20, and again on Friday the 21st when Global has their morning show at the Museum. Of course, the best way to see the exhibit is to come on down – as part of the Science Gallery’s permanent exhibits, LWSS is free for Museum Members and reasonably priced for everyone.

Scott Young

Scott Young

Planetarium Astronomer

Scott is the Planetarium Astronomer at the Manitoba Museum, developing astronomy and science programs. He has been an informal science educator for thirty years, working in the planetarium and science centre field both at The Manitoba Museum and also at the Alice G. Wallace Planetarium in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Scott is an active amateur astronomer and a past-President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.

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