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The Biosphere, also known as the Montreal Biosphere (French: Biosphère de Montréal), is a museum dedicated to the environment in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is housed in the former United States pavilion constructed for Expo 67 located within the grounds of Parc Jean-Drapeau on Saint Helen's Island .
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The Biosphere is a museum dedicated to the environment, housed in the former United States pavilion constructed for Expo 67. It is located in Parc Jean-Drapeau , on Saint Helen's Island . The Biodome, a former velodrome, is a facility located in the Olympic Park which allows visitors to walk through replicas of various ecosystems.
Espace pour la vie is a museum district in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists of five natural museums: the Biosphere, Biodome, Planetarium, Botanical Garden and Insectarium. [1] Space for life ( Biodome and Planetarium ), Montréal, 2024. Espace pour la vie was established in 2011 as a successor body to Montreal Nature Museums. [2]
Today very little remains of Expo but two prominent buildings remain in use on the former Expo grounds: the American pavilion's metal-lattice skeleton from its Buckminster Fuller dome, now enclosing an environmental sciences museum called the Montreal Biosphere; [65] and Habitat 67, now a condominium residence.
The Montreal Biodome (French: Biodôme de Montréal) is a museum of enclosed ecosystems located at Olympic Park in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas.
the Montreal Biosphère, a geodesic dome on Ile Sainte-Hélène in Montreal, Quebec, Canada used as the pavilion for the 1967 World Exhibition Expo 67. Biosphere 2, an artificial closed ecosystem in Oracle, Arizona. BIOS-3, a closed ecosystem at the Institute of Biophysics in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
The Montreal Biosphère, formerly the American Pavilion of Expo 67, by R. Buckminster Fuller, on Île Sainte-Hélène, Montreal, Quebec. A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron.