Ontario Science Centre to open up temporary locations in Etobicoke, Harbourfront [Video]

The Ontario Science Centre is set to launch two temporary satellite locations in other parts of Toronto, which could let visitors access some of its interactive exhibits while a full interim location remains at least a year away, CTV News has learned.

The two sites, which are in Etobicoke’s Sherway Gardens and the Harbourfront Centre on Queens Quay West, would amount to less than a quarter of the exhibit space in the building on Don Mills Road that was dramatically shut down in June.

“Bringing some science to different parts is probably a pretty good idea. But it doesn’t change the fact that we need a full-sized, properly funded institution here on Don Mills Road,” said Floyd Ruskin of the group Save Ontario Science Centre in an interview.

In a sudden and controversial move, the building was closed to the public in June after the provincial government claimed an engineering …