September Open House at the
Canada Agriculture Museum
OTTAWA, August 22, 2007 September highlights at the Canada Agriculture Museum include the Open House on the Central Experimental Farm, Saturday, September 8, and a variety of informative Daily Demonstrations featured throughout the month. Also, visitors can enjoy plenty of outdoor spaces, whether on the grass or at picnic tables, for snacking or resting while enjoying informative and hands-on activities.
Among the many daily demonstrations, visitors can learn about honeybees, make butter, feed the sheep and watch a milking machine in action. Also, museum-goers can visit the exhibitions “Tractors” and “Food for Health” and, on weekends, visitors can help one of our friendly guides bake bread.
Open House on the Central Experimental Farm - September 8
Special Invitation to Seniors
Guided Tours
Museum Passport
Daily Demonstrations
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Museum Hours:
Admission Prices (GST included. Prices subject to change without notice.)
Location:
Telephone: 613 991-3044
Web Sites:
For immediate release
The Central Experimental Farm is hosting an open house on Saturday, September 8, 2007 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Featured throughout the day are fun science displays, live bugs, interactive games, activities with Friends of the Farm as well as with Fletcher Wildlife Garden, crafts for children with the 4-H Club and free admission and free parking at the Canada Agriculture Museum. For more information, please call 613 759-1000 or visit www.agr.gc.ca.
Here is the perfect chance to share an adventure with your favourite senior. Every Tuesday from now until the end of October, seniors (60+) are admitted free to the Museum.
Guided Tours of our Animal Barns are available year round. For information and registration call 613 991-3053.
“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.
Every day, visitors can learn more about Canadian agriculture and about the food and fibres that make our way of life possible by taking in the Museum’s daily demonstrations.
10:00 Groom a Calf - Dairy Barn 10:30 Meet Eeyore the Donkey and the Sheep - Sheep Field 11:00 Butter Making - Demonstration Kitchen 11:45 A Well Balanced Diet - Food for Health Exhibition 1:15 Cow Washing or Care - Dairy Barn 2:30 The Buzz About Honeybees - Demonstration Kitchen
3:00 Help Feed the Sheep - Small Animal Barn 3:45 Afternoon Milking - Dairy Barn
Children ages 3-12 can enjoy a MOOving Experience with games, ice cream and a special tour of the barns. Children 5-12 can get cooking with a Pizza Party and taste the rewards of all their hard work as well as visit the animals. Round ‘em Up! Children ages 7-12 can make “mud pie” and take a closer look at horses and herding. From September through October, children ages 7 to 12 can enjoy the fall harvest with Seasons of Change when they make an apple treat and a beeswax craft. A tour of the barns adds to the fun. For information and to register call 613 991-3053.
Daily demonstrations from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Animal Barns and Exhibitions daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 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, south of the traffic circle, north off 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
www.agriculture.technomuses.ca
www.foodforhealth.ca
Media:
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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