Inquiring Minds Ottawa

Together, our 10 local museums tell the whole Ottawa story.

Inquiring Minds Ottawa is a new initiative of the Ottawa Museum Network. Our mandate is to provide educational resources in the form of artefacts, experts and experiences to our visitors. The museums of the Ottawa Museum Network are fascinating, educationally rich environments that engage students in exploration and discovery.

The Inquiring Minds concept

Inquiring Minds Ottawa is based on the successful Open Minds concept, established in Calgary in 1993. The Open Minds concept has been successfully established in St John’s, Newfoundland; Vancouver, British Columbia; Edmonton, Alberta; London, Ontario; Lansing, Michigan; Leeds, England; and Singapore.

Inquiring Minds Ottawa will provide opportunities for teachers to move their classroom into the community for an entire week. The experience encourages inquiry learning, problem solving and new approaches to critical thinking for students as they interact with artefacts and experts at each site.

Piloting Inquiring Minds Ottawa

The Ottawa Museum Network began piloting the program for the first time in Ottawa in fall 2012 and the pilots will continue in the fall of the 2013/14 school year.

Pilot programs will be free for participating classes
Participating in a pilot is an opportunity to work with the OMN to launch innovative community learning in Ottawa

For more information about Inquiring Minds Ottawa, or if you are interested in working with the OMN to pilot an Inquiring Minds Ottawa program at your school, please contact:

Tina Bedard, Outreach and Partnership Representative
Email: inquiringminds@ottawamuseumnetwork.ca
Phone: (613)234-1999
Twitter: www.twitter.com/1InquiringMinds

Click to see the pilot in action

Check out the 'Click' School Program at Bytown Museum!

This project is funded in part by the Canada Cultural Investment Fund at Canadian Heritage