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Chocolate & Pastries at Thierry
Rainy Day
Lie Back Under the Stars at the Space Centre
The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vanier Park swaps Vancouver's grey ceiling for a projected galaxy, reclined seats included.
Rainy Day
The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vanier Park swaps Vancouver's grey ceiling for a projected galaxy, reclined seats included.
The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vanier Park takes the position that if the Vancouver sky is going to be a solid ceiling of grey, you might as well upgrade it to an entire galaxy. Tip your seat back in the Planetarium Star Theatre for a domed show that fills your entire field of vision and is, frankly, embarrassingly romantic for a science institution. Then wander the Cosmic Courtyard, where there are actual meteorites to touch and Mars rover bits to peer at, which gives you something to talk about that is not each other for a few minutes. It is compact and not expensive, and a dim dome full of projected stars is doing a lot of the heavy lifting atmospherically. If the clouds break, the Wednesday and Friday evening observatory opens its telescope. Weather permitting, naturally, because this is Vancouver.
