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0 BC Sports Hall of w Science World
Fame and Museum 1455 Quebec St. Map 3 C4. Tel (604)
Gate A, BC Place Stadium. Map 3 A3. 443-7440.  Main. @ 3, 8, 19. Open
Tel (604) 687-5520.  Stadium. 10am– 6pm daily. Closed Dec 25. &
@ 17. Open 10am–5pm daily. = 0 7 ∑ scienceworld.ca
Closed Dec 25. & 7 8
∑ bcsportshalloffame.com Overlooking the waters of False
Creek, the 155-ft- (47-m-) tall
Canada’s largest sports steel geodesic dome built for
museum, the BC Sports Hall Expo ’86 now houses Science
of Fame and Museum is housed World, Vancouver’s interactive
in 20,000 sq ft (1,858 sq m) science museum. The dome
of space inside the BC Place was designed by American
Stadium. Twenty galleries The impressive retractable roof of BC inventor Richard Buckminster
showcase BC’s sports history, Place Stadium Fuller (1895–1983), who
starting in the 1860s and patented the geodesic dome
include a Vancouver 2010 q BC Place Stadium in 1954. It remains one of the
Games Gallery that celebrates 777 Pacific Blvd. Map 3 A4. city’s most striking landmarks
hosting the Winter Olympics. Tel (604) 669-2300.  Stadium. to this day.
Among the artifacts on display @ 15, 17. Open hours vary, Science World hosts both
are medals, trophies, uniforms, depending on events. & 7 traveling and permanent
equipment, murals, and photo s. ∑ bcplacestadium.com exhibitions. The latter include
Clever games test visitors’ hands-on activities such as
knowledge. Interactive displays With its white-domed roof building structures with KEVA
provide fascinating details of standing out in the city’s wooden planks, testing agility,
the lives of famous athletes, skyline, BC Place Stadium and solving a variety of puzzles,
such as Olympic medalists was, when it opened in 1983, making this a museum popular
sprinter Harry Jerome and skier Canada’s first covered stadium with children. In the Search: Sara
Nancy Greene. A series of and the largest air-supported Stern Gallery, visitors can touch
videos on the 1990s tells dome in the world. The fur, bones, and animal skins,
the exciting stories multi purpose stadium, crawl into a beaver lodge or
of the Vancouver consisting of enough look into a beehive. Kidspace,
Canucks’ skate to cement to pour aimed at children aged six and
the Stanley Cup a sidewalk from under, has a huge kaleidoscope
finals, the BC Lions’ Vancouver to Tacoma kids can crawl into, and a flying
Grey Cup victory, (see p186), can be saucer. The Our World and
and Victoria’s converted in a Eureka! exhibits are especially
Commonwealth matter of hours educational, exploring themes
Games, all held from a football such as sustainability, motion,
in 1994. field seating 54,000 and energy.
Children will to a cozier concert Science World is renowned for
particularly enjoy Percy Williams statue at BC bowl seating its OMNIMAX Theatre, located
the Participation Sports Hall of Fame 27,000. It has a in the dome. A five-story screen
Gallery, where they fully retractable 88 ft (27 m) in diameter shows
can run against the clock, roof and is home to the CFL’s films on subjects ranging from
rock climb, and see how fast BC Lions and the MLS team, bears to Sir Ernest Shackleton’s
they can pitch. the Vancouver Whitecaps FC. epic 1914 Antarctic journey.
One of the most touching
displays is that honoring runner
Terry Fox (1958–81), who lost
his leg to cancer. His run across
Canada to raise money for
cancer research was halted only
by his death. The feat of local
wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen
is also highlighted. To raise
public awareness of the
potential of people with
disabilities, Hansen set out
in 1987 to wheel 24,855 miles
(40,000 km) around the world.
Two years later, he had earned
the well-deserved title of Man
in Motion. The futuristic geodesic dome defines Vancouver’s Science World

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