CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATUREFifty years ago, humankind reached the moon. This proud achievement —and the power that the moon exerts on our natural world and imagination— is celebrated at the

Canadian Museum of Nature

with a suspended,

seven-metre-wide sculpture, featuring impressively detailed geologicalformations. An out-of-this-world moon rock from the 1972 Apollo Missionemphasizes parallels and differences to the structure of our planet.Its companion exhibit,

Otherworlds:VisionsofOurSolarSystem

, presents

Michael Benson’s large-format photographs, captured by space probes.These are reminders of our humble place in the universal order andrevolutionize our perspective about our one and only home, Earth.The Museum’s moonshot goal? Saving the world, naturally.

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YOU MIGHT GET THERE.

—Buzz Aldrin

SHOOT FORTHE MOON.

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EMBASSYOFTHEUNITEDSTATESAMBASSADEDESÉTATS-UNISOttawa,Canada

CHANGE

YOUR VIEW

OF NATURE.

MICHAEL BENSON’S‘OTHERWORLDS’ EXHIBITIS ACCOMPANIED BY ASOUNDSCAPE CALLED“DEEP SPACE”, PRODUCEDBY AWARD-WINNINGBRITISH AMBIENT MUSICCOMPOSER BRIAN ENO.