Join in for a giant selfie and get discounted admission to Dynamic Earth
Located at Dynamic Earth, the Big Nickel, a 30-foot replica of a 1951 Canadian nickel, commemorates Sudbury’s mining heritage and celebrates our community’s unique history. Want to share your love for Sudbury’s landmark? Join in a giant group photo and don’t forget to take your own selfie.
The Big Nickel, created by the late Ted Szilva, was built in 1964. Szilva told us in an interview ahead of the monument’s 50th birthday in 2014 that he raised the $35,000 it cost to build the structure by selling miniature medallion versions of the monument. The monument is based on the 1951 nickel, as that year was the 200th anniversary of the isolation of nickel as a mineral.
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