Science North got $255,000 in provincial funding for its 20th birthday Wednesday night, just in time for the IMAX Film Festival, which is scheduled to start today.
About $20,000 is slated to support the festival, and the rest, or $235,000, for the new Human Machine exhibit. The funding was announced by Madeleine Meilleur, Ontario?s minister of culture.
The stainless steel snowflake opened June 19, 1984. On that day this year, Science North will launch its new 3D IMAX film, tentatively called Wings Over the North.
The centre has expanded several times since its inception. In 1994, the IMAX theatre was added, followed by Virtual Voyages in 1997 and the Butterfly Gallery in 2000. Last year Dynamic Earth opened at the former site of the Big Nickel Mine. The attraction?s annual budget has grown from about $6 million a decade ago to $15 million this year.
