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Doors Open Kingston 2020

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Location: Virtually on Zoom

Date: September 26, 2020

Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Doors Open Kingston 2020 Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute, Stirling Hall, Queen's University - Virtual Experiences

This September, Doors Open is back! Doors Open is an opportunity to ‘Explore, discover and encounter the hidden spaces, places and stories of Kingston. And it’s completely free! This year the McDonald Institute Visitor Centre will be joining the event with 30-minute zoom-tours, show-casing the Cloud Chamber particle detector and the research happening at SNOLAB, 2 km underground, trying to uncover some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, like ‘What is Dark Matter?’ and ‘Why is there matter but no antimatter?’.

Check out more details here: https://www.kingstonmuseums.ca/doors-open-kingston/sites-participating.

Virtual sessions are being booked on the hour between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm through the Kingston Museums Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/kingston-association-of-museums-art-galleries-amp-historic-sites-24372521700

 
Students listen to Doctor Tony Noble discuss astroparticle physics.