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A girl explores the Medical Sensations exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Another girl interacts with a skeletal hand model, then a skull. The scene shifts to a group of girls engaging with the exhibit’s section on the five senses.

Exhibition

Medical Sensations

Ongoing

Use your five senses to dive into the world of medicine, and learn how centuries of human ingenuity and technological breakthroughs have shaped medical culture across Canada and around the world.

See if you can hear the difference between a healthy heart and one with a murmur. Reach in and touch 3D-printed models of organs and bones, and guess which parts they are. Try your hand at remote surgery using the same tools used by medical students.

From the top of your head to the tips of your toes, you’re sure to learn a lot about how medical ingenuity is helping to keep us healthy and cure what ails us.

Exhibition highlights

  • Try out the Visible Body app, used by doctors and medical students to virtually study everything from bones to the circulatory system
  • Test your ability to detect disease using only your sense of smell
  • View a series of x-rays and see if you can pinpoint what’s wrong in each
  • See actual imaging machines and learn the differences between x-rays, ultrasound, MRIs and CT scans
Included with museum admission
This exhibition was developed in partnership with:
Toshiba Medical logoVisible Body logo

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