Food for Health Travelling Exhibition

The Canada Agriculture Museum, in collaboration with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and other exhibition partners, has developed a bilingual travelling exhibition and website. Food for Health addresses, from a consumer point of view, concerns and questions that many Canadians have about the safety of their food supply, and the role food plays in ensuring good health.

By combining hands-on interactive components, multimedia technology, historical artifacts and graphics, the exhibition showcases Canadian initiatives designed to ensure that our food is as safe as possible. Food for Health provides Canadians with the knowledge they need to protect themselves against food-borne illnesses through safe food-handling practices. It will also investigate evidence of links between diet, physical activity and obesity, and illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Bonus: About one month in advance of the full exhibition, borrowing organizations will receive the Food for Health Suitcase Exhibition. This tabletop exhibition will provide an excellent opportunity for your visitors to get a taste of the upcoming exhibition. Once the full exhibition is in place, you are encouraged to share the Suitcase Exhibition with other organizations within your community, at little or no cost to them (at your discretion). Your only obligation is to cover the costs of shipping the Suitcase Exhibition to its next destination — we will look after these logistics. For more information on the Suitcase Exhibition, please visit www.foodforhealth.ca.

Target Audience

Adults

Children

School Groups

Languages

All elements of the exhibition are presented in a bilingual format.

Dates Available

Until December 2014

Exhibition Components

8 interactives

My Family's Farm Model
Time Shopper
Feed the Alien Console
Yummy Pops Cereal
Food Domes Console
Microscope Console
Burning Calories Bike
Mirror and Superfood Appliqués

8 showcases, some containing artifacts and/or audiovisual components:

Working Tools
Hatching to Packaging
Modern Agriculture
Safe Milk
More Convenience
Cold Storage
Yummy Pops Cereal
Making Food Last Longer

• 23 panels — Four main information zones + intro and exit/credit columns

Food Production
Food Packaging
Food Safety
Food Nutrition

Support Material

11 bins of programming materials for demonstrations and school programs

Facilitator’s guide outlining the Food for Health exhibition demonstrations

Access to Food for Health school programs, which are based on the Pan-Canadian Common Framework of Science Learning Outcomes

Reciprocal Internet link to the Canada Agriculture Museum’s Food for Health exhibition Web section

Web-based virtual program and educational activity kits for teachers, parents and caregivers, as well as games and activities for children to download at: www.agriculture.technomuses.ca/english/FoodForHealth/For-Teachers.html

Publicity, media relations and advertising support package, with images (news releases, PSAs, radio ad scripts, etc.)

Installation manual and exhibition condition report

Space Requirement

140 m² (1,500 ft²)
Minimum ceiling height: 2.4 metres (96”) from finished floor

Conservation Requirements

Exhibition space must meet temperature and environmental requirements.

Insurance

Borrower must provide an insurance certificate.

Shipping

28 crates, 11 programming bins

Total weight: 4,525 kg (10,250 lbs.)

Fees

$3,500 per three-month period

One-way transportation

Applicable taxes

Contact

Solange Claude, Outreach Officer
Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation, Ottawa
Telephone: 613-990-4237 Fax: 613-991-6647
Toll-free: 1-866-442-4416 (in Canada)
sclaude@technomuses.ca

Do you qualify for the Museums Assistance Program (MAP) through the Department of Canadian Heritage? To find out, please visit www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/pam-map/index-eng.cfm

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