May 12
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Science museum’s “Sex: A Tell-all” Exhibition
Received via email through the Rideau Valley Home Educators Connection. If you visit the link below to the online Montreal exhibit site, you will see and hear enough anti-scientific propagandist filth that you won’t feel a need to actually attend the exhibit. But if you want to confirm the dangerous and dishonest nature of the material being provided then, according to the info below, you can visit the museum at no cost on Monday and Wednesday evenings this week:
Starting May 14, 2012, the Canada Science and Technology Museum will feature the award-winning Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition. This original and unique creation dealing with sexuality that will allow visitors to explore the most important and delicate subjects dealing with sexuality, providing straight forward answers to more than 100 questions of interest to youths 12 years of age and over. This exhibition represents a rare occasion for youths to find frank and direct answers on their sexuality and to develop the critical sense they need to make enlightened and responsible decisions.
Parents, adolescents, and scientists at work
It is through a scientific eye that the exhibition was developed, thanks to the cooperation between the Montréal Science Centre and a scientific committee comprising medical doctors, public health specialists, experts in educational sciences, and sexologist who validated both the approach and content of the ultimate presentation. Parents and adolescents were also consulted in order to evaluate their expectations, needs, interests, and preoccupations. Thus, the committee was able to ensure the soundness and accuracy of the proposed approach, and of the tone and format of its presentation.
Sex : A Tell-all Exhibition first takes visitors back to the origins of human life and immerses them in the phenomena of fertilization and conception. Puberty and the hormonal changes it brings about in humans are then dealt with in a manner that is both new and audacious, with emphasis on the scientific aspects that explain them. Sexual excitation and responses, contraception, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are also on the agenda. Finally, the social aspects of sexuality, including the question of influences from and over others, especially among youths, as well as the fascination of the media and Internet with the subject will get special attention. Decidedly modern in its approach, the exhibition includes video, computer animation, real life photography, interactive electronic platforms, and surprisingly realistic models, and on advice from experts to communicate its message.
At the CSTM the exhibition will be placed in a gallery off the central diagonal hallway. Its entrance is designed to ensure that visitors choose to enter this area consciously. A panel will clearly indicate that youth younger than 12 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. No existing school programs (including tours) will visit this area, rather we encourage groups and individuals to take advantage of this opportunity to visit on their own.
Due to the themes included in this exhibition we are providing educators with a preview opportunity. On May 7th and May 9th, between 5pm and 7pm, educators can preview this exhibition for free. We will have experts onsite to help answer questions. You can also find information online at www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca including great resources for educators as of April 20th.
As valued visitors to our museum we felt it important to provide you with this information. We hope that you may find the time to explore this exhibition before January 6th, 2013 when it moves onto its next venue. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to let me know.
Regards.
Director, Educational Strategy | Directrice de la Stratégie d’éducation
Here is a link from the museum explaining a little bit about what the exhibit will be about
This website, from the Montreal Science Centre, where the exhibit was previously on display, provides more detail about what some of the graphic displays will focus on.
Response:
You may want to boycott the museum until the exhibit is gone and/or some families may want to request a refund or not renew your family membership to the museum. This is unfortunate for a family-oriented museum that offers many workshops for school and homeschool groups, special events throughout the year and camps for children.
Emails can be sent to Luc Fournier at [email protected] to file a complaint about this exhibit and forward this email to friends and family. Many think this exhibit is wonderful, and are looking forward to taking their children/teens there. Let us be the voice of opposition! The museum needs to hear that we don’t want our children exposed to this! Here is a sample letter to Mr. Fournier. Feel free to use this as a base for your letter and personalize it as you wish using information from the email above.
“Dear Mr. Fournier; I have recently been informed that an exhibit of poor taste, “Sex: A Tell All Exhibition”, is coming to the museum of Science and Technology in early May and will be there until January 13th, 2013. Please be advised that I will not be taking my family to your museum throughout the duration of this exhibit, and I will be informing all my friends and family to avoid a museum that I once respected as being family-friendly. I am confident that my trust in the museum will be restored if you immediately remove this exhibit from the premises of the museum. I’m sincerely disappointed by your lack of judgement.
Regretfully, Mrs. Smith”
Telephone number to the museum:
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