PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Big Idea
Innovation will help secure a sustainable future for aquaculture in Canada.
Exhibition Overview
The Aquaculture traveling exhibition will introduce visitors to the farming of fish, shellfish, and seaweeds in oceans, lakes, and on land in Canada. Visitors will learn about aquaculture’s long history. Indigenous peoples have used traditional knowledge to grow and harvest food like clams for millennia and continue to innovate and adapt to changing environments. Visitors will also learn about current industry practices and how research and innovation are helping make aquaculture more sustainable for growing demands.
Visitors will understand aquaculture’s importance as a source of protein and a role in the economy and culture of urban, rural and coastal communities.
The exhibition will introduce visitors to the major species raised on aquaculture farms in Canada.
Through this approach, visitors will explore and understand the challenges of growing food in aquatic environments. They will learn how fish, shellfish, and seaweeds are housed, grown, and cared for.
The exhibition will show how the Canadian aquaculture industry strives to become ever more
sustainable. It will also show how scientists, Indigenous communities, farmers and other contributors in Canada are developing new innovative approaches to respond to consumer demand for healthy, environmentally sound foods.
This exhibition will present multiple perspectives on a variety of topics, some potentially controversial. It will engage the senses and be physically and cognitively accessible for a diverse group of visitors.
In order to travel to a wider range of venues throughout Canada, especially smaller institutions often found in coastal regions, this exhibition will not feature artefacts. It will also be built around a core experience of 70 m2 (750 ft2), with a discovery cart and a complementary feature, raising the total to 93 m2 (1000 ft2).
