Fraser River Discovery Centre has been offering some hands-on activities daily during the summer – and preparing for some new additions this fall.
The centre recently bid farewell to The Aliens Among Us exhibit and is making way for the Seafood for Thought exhibit.
“It’s about sustainable seafood on the coast here and in the river,” said Catherine Ouellet-Martin, the centre’s executive director. “It’s visiting from the Gulf of Georgia Cannery. It’s one of their travelling exhibits.”
Another new exhibit will be opening at Fraser River Discovery Centre in September.
“In the fall, we are opening an exhibit about the Experience the Fraser project. We have been working with the ETF team, which is the Fraser Valley Regional District and Metro Vancouver, to develop an exhibit that explains the project and promotes getting off the couch – that promotes self-propelled activities along the Fraser. Self-propelled as in walking, running, canoeing, biking, anything that you use your little muscles for,” said Ouellet-Martin. “That will be a really fun exhibit. There is going to be an interactive bicycle that generates an image on a screen. We also have the canoe from the New Westminster Museum and Archives. They have lent us their canoe to do that exhibit. It will be very cool.”
Experience the Fraser is envisioned as a way of connecting communities, parks, natural features and historic and cultural sites along the Lower Fraser.
Fraser River Discovery Centre aims to provide a way people can explore the stories and diversity of the Fraser River.
“During the summer months, Fraser River Discovery Centre is open seven days a week. The My River My Home exhibit will remain at the centre for the foreseeable future,” Ouellet-Martin said. “That one is chock-full of hands-on scientific experiments – test the river water and turbidity and all that. There are some art activities with that as well.”
Fraser River Discovery Centre, located at 788 Quayside Dr. Admission to the galleries is by donation.
For more information, visit www.fraserriverdiscovery.org.
