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
You may also be interested in
ZOOOM – Children’s Innovation Zone
ZOOOM lets kids be kids as they investigate, experiment, cooperate, and play.
Sound by Design
Explore the world of sound, from how we produce and use it to how we shut it out.
Into the Great Outdoors
Explore our relationship to the world outside through technologies old and new.