Barnyard Break at the Canada Agriculture Museum
OTTAWA, February 22, 2008 The Canada Agriculture Museum launches its 2008 season with its annual Barnyard Break during the March school breaks from March 1 to 16. Parents and children looking for March Break learning and fun will find it at the Canada Agriculture Museum’s Barnyard Break!
Visitors will be able to participate in or watch informative demonstrations such as butter making and tasting, meeting the cow family or learning all about pigs by taking a “Pig Quiz”. In addition to learning about many farm animals such as the Museum’s Canadian-breed horse, visitors can also groom a calf, watch the afternoon milking and, on weekends, warm up with a wintry recipe. A favourite March Break children’s activity is suggesting names for the Museum’s calves.
The following are some of the activities, displays and demonstrations that will be featured at the Museum during Barnyard Break:
Groom a Calf (9:30)
All About Milk (10:00, 1:30)
Small Animal Tour (10:30)
Children’s Story and Craft (11:00, 2:30)
Pig Quiz (12:00)
Butter Making (1:00)
Meet the Cow Family (2:00)
Saddle Up! (3:00)
Help Us Name Our Calves and Our New Wooden Milking Cow! (Ongoing)
Warm Up With a Hot Chocolate (weekends only at 10:00, 11:30, 2:30, 3:30)
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The Canada Agriculture Museum, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in October 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
Museum Hours:
Admission Prices (GST included. Prices subject to change without notice.)
Location:
Telephone: 613 991-3044
Web Sites: agriculture.technomuses.ca
For immediate release
Visitors will have the chance to meet a calf and help one of the Museum’s Guides with the grooming.
Visitors can follow milk’s journey from the cow to the corner store.
Visitors can take part in a guided tour to meet the goats, sheep and rabbits and learn all about the similarities and differences between the sheep and the goats!
Children can have fun making a craft related to the featured story.
Are pigs in fact dirty animals? Visitors can find out the answer to this question and many more during the Pig Quiz.
Visitors will be surprised to learn how simple it is to make this tasty food. Butter tool artefacts and lots of visitor participation add to this demonstration.
What is the difference between a beef cow, a steer, a bull and a bull-calf? This demonstration will answer visitors' questions regarding the bovine vocabulary and beef breeds.
For this demonstration, visitors can learn about Nel, the Museum's Canadian-breed horse, and her tack, and then try their hand at saddling up our wooden horse.
Visitors of all ages are invited to give suggestions to name our recently-born calves and our new demonstration wooden milking cow.
On weekends, while tasting a hot chocolate, visitors can learn interesting facts about the origins and cultivation of chocolate.
Animal Barns and Exhibitions daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Daily demonstrations from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Adults: $6.00
Seniors (60+): $5.00
Students: $5.00
Children (3-14): $3.00
Children under 3: Free
Families (2 adults and 3 children): $13.00
Families with additional children: $2.00 per extra child
Families with additional adults: $3.00 per extra adult
Members: Free
Special rates available for groups (20 or more).
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.
Toll free: 866 442-4416
TTY: 613 991-9207
Fax: 613 993-7923
Reservations for guided
tours & school programs: 613 991-3053
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MEDIA CONTACT:
David Sutin
Manager, Communications, Marketing and Farm Operations
CANADA AGRICULTURE MUSEUM
Tel. 613 996-7812;
E-mail : dsutin@technomuses.ca
or
Lucie Robillard
Communications, Marketing and Visitor Statistic Clerk
Tel. 613 943-1164;
E-mail : lrobillard@technomuses.ca
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