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New Spring Season at the Canada Agriculture Museum

Celebration of Spring
at the Canada Agriculture Museum

OTTAWA, March 24, 2006
For immediate release

The Canada Agriculture Museum comes alive in April after a long cold winter. Visitors will learn how important agriculture is to their everyday lives. Highlights in April at the Canada Agriculture Museum include Easter, April 14 to 17 and a variety of Daily Demonstrations such as learning all about milk, wool carding, helping to feed the sheep and watching a milking machine in action. Also, museum-goers can visit the exhibitions “The Farm: Plugged-In” and “Tractors”.

Easter April 14 to 17
The farm glows with the joyful birth of newborn animals. Visitors will have the chance to welcome gentle new lambs, caress the silky fur of rabbits and see newly-hatched fluffy chicks. Children six years and under can join in chocolate Easter egg hunts and older kids can be challenged to find the “Signs of Spring”. All throughout the Easter weekend!

Exhibitions
New! The Farm: Plugged-In
Visitors will discover the impact electricity had on farmers' routine household chores, from the turn of the last century to today, in this exhibition tracing the period of rural electrification in Canada. Also visitors can even see Beck’s Circus, a travelling exhibit from the early 1900s that showed the wonders that electricity brought to farms.

Tractors
In the exhibition Tractors, visitors can follow the 100-year-old story of the tractor from unfamiliar oddity to commonplace tool on the Canadian farm.

Special Invitation to Seniors
Every Tuesday from March to October, seniors (60+) are admitted free.

Daily Demonstrations in April Every day, visitors can learn more about Canadian agriculture and about the food and fibres that make our way of life possible.

10:00  All About Milk - Dairy Barn
10:30  Wool Carding - Small Animal Barn
11:00  Groom a Calf - Dairy Barn
12:00  How Do you Measure Up with Horses? - Horse and Cattle Barn
1:15  0Cow Washing or Care - Dairy Barn
2:00  0Meet Goody the Bull - Horse and Cattle Barn
3:00  0Help Feed the Sheep - Small Animal Barn
3:45  0Afternoon Milking - Dairy Barn

Also...

  • On weekends visitors can help one of our friendly interpreters cook with eggs at 10:00, 12:30 and 2:30 as well as learning interesting facts about eggs.
  • Children's Activity Centre located on the Exhibitions level (for children 6 years old and younger).

Not to be missed...
Easter, April 14 to 17
Mother’s Day, May 14
Sheep Shearing Festival, May 20 to 22

BIRTHDAY PARTIES Two hours of fun, food, and animals. A Museum Educator leads the group through a visit of the barns, ice cream making, and a craft. Available year-round for ages 3 to 12. For information and to register call 613 991-3053.

The Canada Agriculture Museum 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: Daily demonstrations from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Animal Barns and Exhibitions open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADMISSION PRICES (GST included. Prices subject to change without notice.): Adults: $6.00; Seniors (60+), 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)

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.

The Canada Agriculture Museum is in Ottawa on Prince of Wales Drive, south of the traffic circle.

Telephone: 613 991-3044
Toll free: 866 442-4416
TTY: 613 991-9207
Fax: 613 993-7923
Reservations for guided
tours & school programs: 613 991-3053
Web Site: www.agriculture.technomuses.ca

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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
Web Site: www.agriculture.technomuses.ca
or
Lucie Robillard
Communications, Marketing and Visitor Statistic Clerk
Tel. 613 943-1164;
E-mail : lrobillard@technomuses.ca
Web Site: www.agriculture.technomuses.ca