Provincial officials announced the abrupt and permanent closure of the Ontario Science Centre in late June, saying engineers found structural issues with the roof
As the sun shone on an unusually warm day at the end of October, Emma Meadley Dunphy took one final, emotional stroll through the Ontario Science Centre.
A few things too difficult to move were still in the building. Questions hung in the air, too. Did it really need to be this way? Would they ever come back? The animals that lived there – turtles, snakes, fish and poisonous frogs – have been re-homed, while much of the vegetation was ripped out and transplanted at the Toronto Zoo.
Before they had to clear out that day, science centre workers had an ice cream party for 28 cleaning staff who were laid off by Dexterra, the company that managed them. He pointed to ongoing repair work as the source of that hope. There is scaffolding in the great hall and the auditorium that allows access to the roof, where engineers had identified panels in danger of collapsing.“We do appreciate that the building is being repaired, but, of course, everybody wonders, what for? What is it going to be?” Fischer said.The Canadian Press has reached out to the science centre with several questions about the state of affairs.
The production team, which makes exhibits for science centres around the world, does not have a new home yet. The shop’s machines and production materials are stored away in Huntsville, Ont., a three-hour drive north of Toronto, Fischer said.Other items are stored in facilities in Guelph, Ont., northern Toronto and at Sherway Gardens, a mall in western Toronto where a science centre pop-up location just opened. There is also a pop-up coming to Harbourfront Centre in downtown Toronto.
Last year, the science centre had fixed the antenna system on the roof and installed a new rotor within it, so they could move it around properly.
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