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http://family.ontariosnorth.com/UserFiles/Image/scienc2.jpg

http://www.mysudbury.ca/NR/rdonlyres/6EC85F61-79D5-422F-B0D8-A65959F68D55/0/Postcard_2.jpg

My own pics, taken a few years ago:

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Rock tunnel between the two buildings. This is the only way for public to access the museum building:
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Science North is an interactive science museum in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

The complex, which is Northern Ontario's most popular tourist attraction, consists of two snowflake-shaped buildings on the southwestern shore of Lake Ramsey, just south of the city's downtown core, as well as a former ice hockey arena which includes the complex's entrance and an IMAX theatre. The snowflake buildings are connected by a rock tunnel, which passes through a billion-year-old geologic fault. This fault line was not known to be under the complex during the construction of the building in the early 1980s. Where the walkway reaches the larger snowflake, the Inco Cavern auditorium is frequently used for temporary exhibits, as well as for press conferences and other gala events.

Inside the main building, a 20-foot fin whale skeleton recovered from Anticosti Island hangs from the ceiling.

The complex also features a boat tour, the Cortina, which offers touring cruises of the scenic Lake Ramsey. The Jim Gordon Boardwalk also extends from the facility to the city's Bell Park along the western shore of the lake.

The facility was designed by architect Raymond Moriyama.

An agency of the provincial government of Ontario, Science North is overseen by the provincial Ministry of Culture.

Full Article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_North)

Update photos:

The underground INCO Cavern auditorium:
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/292/incocavernlg2.jpg

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My only real complaint is the entrance. Very bland and hardly inviting.

I like this building!

^^ Agreed. But the design actually has a function.

If you stand in the middle of the circle in the center of the below image (roughly where the person is standing) and face the building, your voice will sound amplified as if you are speaking through a microphone.

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6383/snnm1.jpg

I don't think alot of people know about it. I actually didn't know about this either until my brother (who works there) told me.

Here's a panorama (courtesy of Virtual Sudbury (http://www.virtualsudbury.com/homeflash/)) of the underground INCO Cavern auditorium, located in the museum building at the end of the tunnel:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/292/incocavernlg2.jpg

The rock walls are natural.

Interesting. I wouldn't have thought there was one of those in that location.

The building in which at UW I work has one of those echo circles. It's fun to see people talk to it for the first time.

Well, that does change my opinion of the entrance, but it's still uninviting :(

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Strangely retro and unsuccessful but good light. 7

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pleasant...

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