Migration Museums Network

Agenda

Food for Health

Date: 15 May 2010 to 06 September 2010
Details:

Food for HealthPier 21 will also host Food for Health, a bilingual exhibition from the Canada Agriculture Museum, which looks at concerns and questions many Canadians have about the role food plays in ensuring good health.

Food for Health combines hands-on interactive components, multimedia technology, historical artifacts and graphics to showcase Canadian initiatives designed to ensure that our food is as safe as possible. Food for Health can also be viewed online at www.foodforhealth.ca.

Food for Health is presented by the Canada Agriculture Museum and by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, in partnership with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Health Canada and the Canadian Partnership of Consumer Food Safety Education.

Special educational and public programming including workshops, events and family fun weekends will accompany both summer exhibitions. Both exhibitions will be on display in the Ralph and Rose Chiodo Harbourside Gallery.

Pier 21 Society
1055 Marginal Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4P6
Canada

Telephone Switchboard: (902) 425-7770
Fax: (902) 423-4045
E-mail: info@pier21.ca