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Pic: Reflection at the museum
This is another shot, focusing on the apartment reflection above.
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Museum of Nature looking for new gift-shop operator
The Museum of Nature is looking to add a new retail establishment to a ground-floor area called “the Apse,” according to documents posted to the online contracting bulletin board MERX. It’s a space...
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City’s behind some really crackerjack urban design, city says
I love the city’s biannual urban-design awards. It’s good that the city celebrates good work in this field that’s of extreme civic importance — that it says hey, you contributed something lasting to...
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Want to feel small? Stand next to a sperm whale at the Museum of Nature
There’s a new skeleton of a sperm whale at the Canadian Museum of Nature, and its rib cage is so massive, so spacious, that one might suppose Jonah would be quite comfortable in there. The male sperm...
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Huge paintings at Museum of Nature might blow you away
Danger lurks in Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters, at the Canadian Museum of Nature. It’s an interesting exhibit — I recommend standing in the multi-screen viewing room to get a sense of what...
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Nature museum tempts adults with the art of Burtynsky and social nights
If nature really is, as Hobbes wrote, the art of God, then there’s something divine about the Museum of Nature’s intensifying embrace of art. “Increasingly, we’re trying to find art inspired by the...
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National Gallery mag goes online. Nature Museum now has free apps
The new year brings small but public changes to two of the capital’s biggest cultural centres, as each pushes itself further into the modern age of communication. The National Gallery of Canada is...
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Edward Burtynsky, our love of oil, and why photography still matters
What: Oil, photographs by Edward Burtynsky When & where: to Sept. 2 at the Museum of Nature *** I’m sitting on the balcony of Big Beat Central and listening to a friend lament the state of...
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Surface parking remains in the Museum of Nature plans
The Museum of Nature has revised its plan for a permanent parking lot on its west lawn, the one that was supposed to be returned to a park-like state after the epic renovation of the building required...
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A six-pack of art shows to look forward to in 2014
Much of what will be seen in the galleries and museums of the Ottawa-Gatineau region in 2014 has yet to be announced, but not all. I’ve scanned a couple of dozen gallery/museum websites, and here are a...
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Stuck in traffic
After six months of non-stop work, the Red Roaster food truck is ready to roll, but it can’t move into the spot the city awarded it because its takeout window is on the wrong side for its spot on a...
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The moss boss of Gatineau Park
One of Quebec’s top moss scholars keeps returning to Gatineau Park, far from his home in Rimouski, lured by a paycheque and the attraction of tiny plants. Jean Faubert says there are at least 300...
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A fish tale made of bones at Museum of Nature
OTTAWA — You have to wonder who at the Canadian Museum of Nature went up to the boss and said: “Let’s do an exhibit of X-rays of dead fish from the Arctic. “And let’s make them big.” Big they are,...
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Iraqi diplomats get approval for new embassy, new residence for ambassador
OTTAWA — A new residence in Rockcliffe for Iraq’s ambassador to Canada and a revised plan for a new Iraqi embassy in Centretown got approval from city council’s planning committee Tuesday. The...
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Museum of Nature shows huge collection of images and records
OTTAWA — In the late 1800s, a larger-than-life naturalist named John Macoun tramped over huge areas of Canada, collecting plants no scientist had seen before. He brought them home to Ottawa where they...
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Joanne Chianello: OSEG serves up promising menu but proof will be in artisan...
OTTAWA — It did not look like typical stadium fare. Even better, it didn’t taste like it. A Caesar cocktail bar with dozens of accoutrements, including pink Himalayan rock salt, organic kale...
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What’s open and closed on Easter Monday
OTTAWA — Here is a list of businesses and services in Ottawa that are open and closed Easter Monday. Commercial The malls and almost every other commercial establishment will be open Monday. Select...
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In the spotlight
[nggallery id=502] Just as Ottawa’s kitchen and bath awards program is maturing, so too is the market for design-savvy projects. The fourth annual awards presented by the local chapter of the National...
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In the spotlight: Kitchen and bath designers show off their work at annual...
OTTAWA — Just as Ottawa’s kitchen and bath awards program is maturing, so too is the market for design-savvy projects. The fourth annual awards presented by the local chapter of the National Kitchen...
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