The Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre is ready to welcome a new travelling exhibit for the summer season.
Dubbed Inspiring Nature, Inspired Techno, biomimicry and transport, the showcase explores how nature's designs have influenced some of the world's greatest technologies.
Marketing Coordinator Leyla Top revealed that members will get the first peek on opening night, May 14, between 5 and 8 p.m.
"We're going to have lots going on for the opening evening. To kick things off at 5:30 p.m., a live quiz show in the Bruce Power Theatre, testing what people know, or think they know about nature-inspired inventions," Top explained. "There's also going to be hands-on design activities, like creating an invention inspired by plants or animals, and a chance to make your own bee hotel."
Opening night will offer a live quiz show and hands-on design activities like creating your own bee hotel.
Visitors will discover how nearly 30 natural specimens have served as the blueprints for modern transportation technology, such as how the aerodynamic beak of a kingfisher inspired high-speed train design or how a squid’s propulsion system mirrors that of a personal watercraft.
The exhibit includes three distinct zones and ten interactive innovation stations, featuring a blend of naturalized animal specimens, skeletons, and technological artifacts to demonstrate how observing shapes and systems in nature leads to greener, more efficient human solutions.
The exhibit, sponsored by Ontario Power Generation, is open to the Public between May 15 and September 7.
