The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is going to have an escape room exhibit opening in September, to help bring in more visitors and offer a fun, interactive way to learn.
Executive Director of the museum, Linden Roberts, says they’ve been looking at different and unique ways to produce exhibits, and still convey content. She says escape rooms are very popular, and they reached out to Dr. Scott Nicholson, a Professor of Game Design at Wilfred Laurier University, who has been an advocate for the use of escape rooms in museums.
Ovintiv, formerly known as Encana, has invested $40,000 in the museum, to help create the new attraction, and hire Nicholson to help develop the escape room exhibit.