Published on MAY 09 2024 by Philippe Tremblay

The most daring exhibition of the year opens at the Canada Science and Technology Museum

A new award-wining exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum invites visitors to challenge their preconceptions and discover the world’s most misunderstood, limitless resource – poop!

Developed by the Musée de la civilisation de Québec, the exhibition welcomed huge success and rave reviews from visitors and critics alike, in Québec and beyond. Presented as its most daring exhibition, it evidently became one of its most popular, with its audacious, fun, and engaging approach to an important topic with global impacts.

This highly-anticipated exhibition will be at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa from May 10, 2024 to January 5, 2025. Oh Crap! Rethinking human waste is presented by Bonterra, manufactured Kruger Products.

Both serious and playful, it explores every facet of human waste through the lens of microbiology, anatomy, history, and culture, as well as art, engineering and the environment. The exhibition transports visitors of all ages on a journey that will entertain and amuse while sparking reflection on significant environmental and social issues we must collectively address in hopes of imagining a more sustainable future for our planet.

Through over 200 artifacts and archival material, compelling images, videos, immersive spaces, and interactives, visitors will have opportunities to better understand the impact of inequalities in communities across Canada and the world, and the changes they can adopt that can help with waste management.

The exhibition tackles important social and environmental issues in a remarkably fun, informative, fun, and clever way. The management of sanitation and human biowaste are key issues of our time; more than half of the world’s population does not have access to safe sanitation facilities, including safe drinking water. Offering a one-of-the-kind learning opportunity for all ages, we hope museum goers can leave inspired to take action in their own lives.
- Lisa Leblanc, Director General, Canada Science and Technology Museum

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Written by Philippe Tremblay