Regional Science Centre


Kids will love this parkland museum with its giant dinosaurs. Included in the admission is a 30-minute movie screened hourly. Other treats are hands-on demonstrations of the laws of physics and displays on astronomy, insects, mathematics and funny mirrors. You may have the whole place to yourself if a school group isn’t there.


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