Mongo
Senior Member
There has been considerable discussions on various threads about converting some threatened or abandoned structure into a cultural facility of some sort, usually a museum. It may be time to consolidate these discussions into one thread.
Some buildings which have been proposed for such a conversion:
Hearn Power Plant
Ontario Place (aquarium for the location, possible cosmology museum in Cinesphere)
Canada Malting silos
Redpath sugar refinery (if it is ever shut down -- already contains the Redpath sugar museum)
Old City Hall (Museum of Toronto?)
Distillery District (if a Canadian alcohol industry museum is founded)
My own addition to the list would be the Victory Soya Mills silos at the east end of the Inner Harbour, just east of the southern termination of Parliament Street. The East Bayfront development is apparently required to include a significant cultural feature, and these silos are in much better physical condition than the equivalent Canada Malting silos on the west side of the Harbour (which frankly are almost unsalvagable, and most likely need to be demolished for safety reasons). I think that in general, a museum on a related theme to its enclosing structure is best, in this case perhaps one on Canadian agriculture and the development of the Prairies (and the role that Toronto once played as a grain terminus and trans-shipment point). The biggest problem, as always, would be finding the needed funding.
Some buildings which have been proposed for such a conversion:
Hearn Power Plant
Ontario Place (aquarium for the location, possible cosmology museum in Cinesphere)
Canada Malting silos
Redpath sugar refinery (if it is ever shut down -- already contains the Redpath sugar museum)
Old City Hall (Museum of Toronto?)
Distillery District (if a Canadian alcohol industry museum is founded)
My own addition to the list would be the Victory Soya Mills silos at the east end of the Inner Harbour, just east of the southern termination of Parliament Street. The East Bayfront development is apparently required to include a significant cultural feature, and these silos are in much better physical condition than the equivalent Canada Malting silos on the west side of the Harbour (which frankly are almost unsalvagable, and most likely need to be demolished for safety reasons). I think that in general, a museum on a related theme to its enclosing structure is best, in this case perhaps one on Canadian agriculture and the development of the Prairies (and the role that Toronto once played as a grain terminus and trans-shipment point). The biggest problem, as always, would be finding the needed funding.
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