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Was hoping to meet some astronauts...
Aviation and Space Museum - Sept. 2009, a set on Flickr.
I went to the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum on May 12th hoping to see some of our astronauts in person. Word on CBC Radio One that morning was that most of the current crop were going to be there to unveil the space component of the Museum's operations.
Turns out that I was both too late and too early owing to their schedules with the media and the museum itself. You see, what with the museum adding spaceflight to its remit and the renovation of its exhibits just being announced that morning...?
Well, I decided that - as of May 2011 - seeing as this particular federal museum is one of the most under-visited of the lot in Ottawa, it deserves a boost in its on-line presence. So I dug through my photo archives and found these from two years earlier...and you see some of the better pix above.
I do have a bit of a rant about access to the Museum by bus, though. It's rather limited. One route, specifically # 129, half-hourly weekdays, a bit less on weekends, and there are plans for further cutbacks by OC Transpo.
At first they spoke of making it "summer months only" as of the open house I attended at the old Cumberland Town Hall a month or so back. Then, when the pushback came - largely from staff at the Museum and with cause - they've since amended the plan.
Are you ready for the punch line?
Rush hour service only.
Which doesn't do much more good for staff, volunteers and visitors alike who might prefer public transit to either cars, charter buses or whatever else is on offer.
And this Museum's really an under-appreciated gem in this city. Particularly amongst the ranks of the federal museums, at least in my eyes.
Opinions, anyone?
(Oh, and if you can refresh my memory of the various models of plans displayed in those pix over at my Flickr account...? I know the Arrow and the BOMARC Missile on sight, no worries, but many of the rest...well, I need an aviation history refresher again.)
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