Science North

Science North is an interactive technological know-how museum in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.The technological know-how centre, that is Northern Ontario's most famous visitor attraction, consists of snowflake-formed homes on the southwestern shore of Ramsey Lake, just south of the city's downtown middle, and a former ice hockey area which incorporates the complex's entrance and an IMAX theatre.

The snowflake homes are linked by a rock tunnel, which passes thru a billion-year-antique geologic fault. This fault line changed into no longer known to be underneath the complicated for the duration of the construction of the building in the early Eighties. Where the walkway reaches the bigger snowflake, the Vale Cavern auditorium is regularly used for transient exhibits, press conferences, and other gala events with the aid of Science North and the wider community. Inside the primary building, a 20-metre fin whale skeleton recovered from Anticosti Island hangs from the ceiling.

The complicated also features a ship tour, the William Ramsey, which offers visiting cruises of the scenic Ramsey Lake. The Jim Gordon Boardwalk additionally extends from the ability to the city's Bell Park alongside the western shore of the lake.The facility turned into designed with the aid of architect Raymond Moriyama, one of the founding companions of Moriyama & Teshima Architects, based totally in Toronto.An business enterprise of the provincial authorities of Ontario, Science North is overseen by using the provincial Ministry of Culture.