It’s Canada Day at the Canada Agriculture Museum!

It’s Canada Day at the Canada Agriculture Museum!

OTTAWA, June 24, 2009
For immediate release

Celebrate Canada’s birthday with a fun-filled day of activities at the Canada Agriculture Museum. The Museum will offer popular Canada Day activities such as games, a craft and colouring for children, as well as ice cream and Bannock making for the entire family. Visitors can also learn all about Canadian agriculture through our Canadian breed signs. The Canada Agriculture Museum, with its spacious grounds and fascinating indoor exhibitions, is an inviting alternative to the crowds and traffic of downtown. The Museum is centrally located and easy to reach by bus, bicycle or car. Free admission on July 1 and free parking everyday.

Canada Day Activities:

Ice Cream Making (10:00, 11:00, 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00)
Kids and grown-ups can help make ice cream using an old-fashioned hand-cranked ice-cream maker and then taste the results of their efforts. Special thanks to Neilson Dairy for donating cream and milk for these demonstrations.

Canadian Bread Making - Bannock (10:30, 11:15, 12:00, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30)
Visitors can help one of the Museum’s friendly Interpreters make Canadian bread, the Bannock, and learn all about the history of this bread, taste a sample and take a recipe home.

Strawberry Social ($) (10:30 to 2:00)
The Friends of the Central Experimental Farm will be hosting a Strawberry Social with strawberry shortcake and juice from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., or while supplies last ($6 for one juice and one serving of cake).

Canadian Breeds (ongoing)
Visitors will learn the importance of Canadian breeds with the guidance of a series of signs throughout the barns.

The Great Canadian Agriculture Quiz (ongoing)
Museum-goers can spin the wheel of fortune to test their knowledge of Canadian agriculture.

Guess the Mystery Objects! (ongoing)
Will visitors of all ages be brave enough to put their hand into the enclosed compartments to guess, by touch only, the mystery objects?

Giant Puzzle (ongoing)
Visitors will be able to assemble a giant puzzle depicting Canada and highlighting the principal agricultural products of each province.

Also...

Tally-Ho Horse-Drawn Wagon Rides ($), weather permitting

Food services will be available on site for the one-day event, “The Hot Potato Co.” ($).

Children’s Activity Centre located on the Exhibitions level (for children 6 years old and younger).

Net surfers can “virtually” visit our Food for Health website at foodforhealth.ca and in the months ahead, our upcoming virtual exhibition Bees: A Honey of an Idea.

Museum-goers can visit the exhibition Brewer’s Gold: The History of the Hop Industry in British Columbia and the always popular Tractors exhibition.

Craft and Colouring, ongoing in the Snack Area

Cow Washing or Care at 10:30 and 1:30

Afternoon Milking at 4:00

Museum Passport
“Explore Canada's cultural treasures, its national museums, with the Museums Passport. Ottawa-Gatineau provides a uniquely capital experience through its national attractions”. The Passport is exchangeable for admission to 10 participating museums, including the Canada Agriculture Museum.

Not to be missed...

Knit Out, August 2
Harvest Weekends in October
A Barnyard Hallowe’en, October 24

The Canada Agriculture Museum, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2008, connects Canadians and the world to the historical and current importance in everyday life of agricultural science and technology through engaging interpretive activities and products centred on an accessible demonstration farm.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Hours

Exhibitions:
March 1 to October 31, daily 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Closed November 1 to February 28.

Animal Barns:
Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed December 25. Admission is free to the Animal Barns November 1 to February 28.

Daily demonstrations: from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Plenty of free parking.
General admission
Families (2 adults and 3 children): $13
Additional children: $2 per child
Additional adults: $3 per adult
Adults: $6
Children under 3: free
Children (3–14): $3
Students: $5
Seniors (60+): $5, free on Tuesdays
Members: unlimited free admission and many more benefits

Groups of 20 or more: please call 613-991-3053 for rates
Fees subject to change without notice.

Location:
Prince of Wales Drive, between the traffic circle and Baseline Road. Free parking. The Canada Agriculture Museum is located on Prince of Wales Drive on the Central Experimental Farm.

Telephone: 613-991-3044
Toll free: 1-866-442-4416
TTY: 613-991-9207
Fax: 613-993-7923
Reservations for guided tours & school programs: 613-991-3053

Web Sites: agriculture.technomuses.ca
foodforhealth.ca

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MEDIA:

David Sutin
Manager, Communications and Marketing
CANADA AGRICULTURE MUSEUM
Tel. 613-996-7812;
E-mail : dsutin@technomuses.ca
or
Lucie Robillard
Communications and Marketing Clerk
Tel. 613-943-1164;
E-mail : lrobillard@technomuses.ca