The Exploration Place announced their upcoming travelling exhibit, revolving around sports.
Extreme Sports: Beyond Human Limits is an interactive exhibit learning about various sports including free diving, ice and rock climbing, and others.
Assistant Curator Chad Hellenius said the exhibit takes a science approach to the sports.
“It’s looking at not only the physics and the physiology behind extreme sports, but also a lot of the psychology behind pushing yourself to these extremes and different limits.”
Hellenius added it’s being developed and produced by Science North, in partnership with the Ontario Science Centre.
According to The Exploration Place, visitors will:
- Engage with friends and family in a multitude of physical, multimedia, and creative challenges.
- Hear from athletes that participate in these extreme activities and how they have persevered through failures and challenges in their sports.
- Learn about the researchers who study extreme athletes; those who rescue them when things go wrong; and the innovators who create new and novel equipment, and dispel myths and misconceptions surrounding extreme sports.
Hellenius hopes anyone visiting takes away the science that goes into day-to-day activities.
“It’s these sorts of things that you don’t really think about, you go ‘oh wow, this person’s doing this thing I would never do in a million years!’.
“There’s some really amazing science behind all of these things, be it the physics or the psychology. Just getting yourself in that zone to be able to achieve these great feats.”
The Prince George Sports Hall of Fame will also be reinstalled this fall, with select content being integrated into the exhibit.
The exhibit will be open to visitors from September 30th to January 15th 2026, at the George Phillips Exhibit Gallery.
More information can be found here.
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