3/5 Mark E. 1 year ago on Google
It's
designed
well
as
a
building,
but
this
museum
is
missing
elements.
We
were
recently
at
the
city
museums
for
Collingwood,
Peterborough
and
Bytown,
and
wish
that
Niagara
would
take
a
leaf
from
their
book:
explaining
more
deeply
where
each
city
really
came
from,
how
it
was
named
or
when
was
the
charter
granted,
etc.
Perhaps
curators
could
consider
writing
out
a
timeline,
at
least
to
help
initially
organize
thoughts
on
paper
even
if
the
visitor
never
sees
it.
If
you
do
decide
to
blow
it
up
to
wall
size,
the
recession
lines
of
the
falls
over
the
centuries
(see
4th
picture)
could
form
the
basis
of
a
single
infographic,
like
when
a
science
museum
places
pins
on
the
rings
on
a
tree
trunk.
The
wall
explaining
the
bridges
was
really
hard
to
keep
up
with
since
the
naming
of
bridges
varied
from
panel
to
panel.
Just
one
name
per
bridge
is
fine,
for
a
newbie.
A
map,
with
date
ranges
for
each
bridge,
would
equally
help
bring
this
display
together.
Staff
were
friendly.
The
fire
pumper
takes
up
a
lot
of
space
but
there's
no
explanation
of
how
the
thing
worked.
Not
even
in
the
Youtube
video
which
was
a
disappointment.
Curious
that
the
shop
closes
15
minutes
before
the
museum,
at
4:45
pm.
This
is
the
reverse
of
most
places.
We
think
that
such
a
museum
should
give
a
history
of
the
city
--
nowhere
in
Niagara
Falls
did
we
experience
this,
and
we
were
left
asking
the
question,
"Where
did
the
city
come
from?"