Taking a scientific perspective to new heights: Doors Open 2019 at the PGCRL!

Posted on May 28, 2019

Summary:

As part of Doors Open Toronto 2019, we opened the Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning to the public! This year, visitors were invited to roam through the Gallery and were given the opportunity to take their perspective to new heights with a view from the 19th floor interactive space.

By: Louise Palma, Intern, Communications and Public Affairs

This weekend, we opened the Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning to the public! This year, visitors were invited to roam through the Gallery and were given the opportunity to take their perspective to new heights with a view from the 19th floor interactive space.

Doors Open Toronto is a city-wide event that provides the public with the chance to venture inside our city’s buildings. These buildings contribute to the cultural and architectural scope of our city, which define the landscape of Toronto.

To gain insight on the design of the PGCRL visitors viewed a video about the innovative architecture that is intended to prompt collaborative work done by our scientists and researchers. Posters were also displayed and available for our guests to learn about seven distinct research programs hosted in the PGCRL.

Young woman takes a photo pointing out the window.

Three people smile at the camera with a window and skyscrapers seen behind them.

Two people look out the window of a very tall building, one holds a camera the other leans on a railing.

Despite the gloomy weather in the morning on Saturday, the views of the city were just as fascinating after the rain. On Sunday, sunny weather brought in additional visitors. In total, more than 500 people stopped by the PGCRL over the weekend!

Three people seated in an atrium. One young woman is on her phone, while another woman and a man play a string instrument.

Beautiful music rang through the halls of the PGCRL thanks to our own SickKids research students, Isabella Janunosis, Student, Clinical Ophthalmology and Kristine Keon, Student, Molecular Medicine, accompanying our guests on their walkthrough of the building. David Wong, Research Technologist, Neuroscience and Mental Health, taught Isabella and Kristine to play the pipa, while they sang and played their own instruments live.

Two women stand side by side in front of a window with skyscrapers in the background. They are wearing SickKids t-shirts.

Group of staff in matching SickKids t-shirts pose for a group photo.

Staff member in SickKids shirt talks to two visitors wearing backpacks.

Thank you to all of our staff and volunteers who came out this weekend, none of this would have been possible without our team!