Reviews of Oil Sands Discovery Centre (Gardener)

Brandon Parsons

Very interesting place!

Steve Lee

The Discovery Centre has been around for ages and has become a staple of Fort McMurray and is a must see if you're visiting for the first time. The Centre provides a great introduction to the oil sands and the technology that goes into the extraction process, and is also interactive!

Geoffrey Bishop

Really nice friendly staff, everything worked and operated perfectly for the hands on learning tools, lots of cool stuff to see, lots of old good oil history.

Suhas Apte

Always informative and great staff :)

Sithara Fernando

a small exhibition centre ok

Matthew Lewis

If you're looking for an educational experience either for yourself or your family, please visit this place. Very informative, especially about the Alberta oil sands. For anyone who is against Alberta oil, Go Here. You will no longer be.

Vickie Marquez

A really cool spot that shows the tech and history of the Albertan oil sands. Fairly unbiased and interesting, with friendly helpful staff. Certainly worth a visit.

Arulkumar Jagannathan

Very good exhibition, well presented, worth visiting.

D Holland

A museum worth a visit.

Suba Arul

Must see before heading further north to giants of steel

Brian Bartlett

Fun, clean, informative! We always bring visitors here.

Charles Wilkinson

Enjoyed the visit at oil sand discovery center the drinks food n munchies

Phscydin

What an education. Well worth the visit.

Patricia Anderson

Standard brainwashing. Great for the environment! Le sigh

AdS

Very informative!

Mike Keeling

Very educational and they had the sample kit I was after.

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Quin Amorim

Great intro for those wanting to learn more about the oilsands. Shows are outdated and too long and demos are not valuable however the remainder of the centre is great for kids and adults.

Scott Brown

Really neat, something to bring the kids to

Marlon Carabeo

Neat!

Tem Akinlua

Pay way to much for what there is and way to many red ants outside my children had so many bite marks and they didnt seem to care when we complained

Marc Lecour

Cool and interesting. Have driven by it for years and decided to stop in.

Bhavin Mukhtyar

I always bring visitors here.

Fred Griswold

Very cool place to come see old equipment up close. Hope I will be there to see the new exhibit outside they're working on

Alexis Stogowski

Great to visit !! They really keep up with the building, nice and clean.

Julliett Barrett

Lots of good interactive displays and knowledgeable presentations

Craig Craig

How is this a museum?

Roger Sylvain

Fun place to learn about the oil sands...

Adam Petten

I really enjoyed this. I work at syncrude and I drive by this everyday basically but never stopped and checked it out until now. Definitely worth the stop. It's unbelievable how massive these machines really are. Took my girlfriend and she said they look like they're war machines fighting ???????? Fun little stop.

Suz Bartos

Awesome for kids!

Greg Igbodudu

Well organised, a lot learning and a lot of fun

Danette Landon-Nelson

Always a great place to visit and learn.

Drew Wilson

Very informative and learned a lot. Thanks Anna, Fred and Mary

Alexander Nachef

Nice place with lots of interesting information

Shirley Buchanan

Fun place for the whole family!

Wellzy Games

Really interesting experience, we learned alot. Seen some really cool HUGE equiptment, and even met some nice people.

Miles Mojave

Good information, learned a lot.

J P Poirier

Great place! Lots of information about the whole oilsands extraction process, including reclamation and environmental science.

elishia wolf

Great for families to visit and learn about the oil sands.

Norma Eline Cordeiro de Oliveira

Very much worth the visit. Great info and interesting history of the oil sands.

Gordeaux M

A must visit if you plan to be in Fort McMurray.

StarTop

Great little Science Centre. Get to know the industry. Perfect stop for folks with kids, with inquiring minds, for a break before heading into town, or for school & group programs or tours.

Brian Harper

Would be good to have more info about what life is like working in the oil sands so haters might learn that we set the standard by which all employers should strive to achieve. Safer workplaces that pay decent wages and help support a country with the least human rights violations of all oil producing nations. Oilsands are one of the few sources of oil that actually put money in the pockets of the poor and middle class.

Tom Albrecht

very overpriced

Ronald Vanden Pol

Next best thing to mountain top removal and clear cutting old growth timber. Had a blast learning how humanity ignores the destuction of an ecosystem for short term corporate profit.

Noel Foss

Highly educative.

Greg Gillis

Great place to learn about the history of the region

Chris Curry

Very interesting

Michael Durocher

Not knowing much about the process of oil sands, I found the Discovery Center to be very informative. The young lady who did the oil sand demonstration was top notch and taught me all about the process. Thank you. The displays were very well done and the movies were excellent. Definitely visit here to understand the oil sands.

Tim

Friendly people and it was a great place for my little curious one

Brice Deamel

Good information

Randy Giesinger

Kids love the heavy haul truck they can sit in.

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Harry Grewal

Pick up GREAT literature for the area...but never allowed enough personal time to explore the complete discovery centre.

Aptaputra Bharatanand

Great experience and well kept up place. Everyone visiting Fort McMurray should visit this place.

James Hood

Loved it, very educational

Luke Wu (Tuna)

Interesting place.

Walter Hassard

So cool, we really learned a lot, about the process of removing the oil from the sand. What huge equipment, and you even het to crawl in the drivers seat of one of the huge haul trucks, now that is an experience you won't soon forget! ???? There is even a cool little gift shop, and the prices are actually very fair, shock, shock! Lol

Ra Ha

Great place to see if you're in town.

Zach Wood

What a great place. Even has coveralls and hard hats for the kits to run "pretend" excavators

Muhammad Qamar

A lot great place to visit! I learned a lot about the oil sands.

Stu

A must visit, informative with great demonstrations. Kids loved it.

nunya bizness

Excellent center for learning about oil sands and its processing.

Luke L

A very good presentation tried out in a small edition to explain entire process of oil sand formation to bitumen recovery to crude oil. Centre should plan field visits of actual plant site and to get better picture of process. In nutshell it has been intelligently planned and carved out great displays to explain entire process in layman's language. Outside displays of machinery is also good. A common man's learning: How Canada is being beaten up by US oil lobby, environmentalists and others who lick Canadian economy by not allowing building new refineries to process oil sand crude oil. Pray God/mother Nature to give intelligence to all concerned to help people of Canada and world at large.

Robert Thomas

Great lots to learn. Great place to learn nice children's playroom.

Brian Kim

A must see for understanding how we are destroying our only planet. Bring the kids!

dennis watrous

Very informative. I walked out with a better understanding of the oil sands

Charlene Fowler

Super cool! But u need to make the outside way more presentable.

Tara Sauter

Great value for your money and a must visit for anyone interested in finding out more about the oil sands.

ayman

Nice

Adam

It was very informative ,and my kids liked it a lot

Linda Smith

Stay for the movie

Renee Smith

Cool place. Probably a 3.5 but is a decent place to go see the ins and out of the oil business before heading out.

Teann Park

best Pokemon go loop in the mac. so many poke balls

Steven Lamothe

Interesting place to visit. History of oil exploration in Alberta. Smart machines and the Earth storage explanation.

Dmytro Medianyk

Very informative, interactive and enjoyed it throughly!

Michael Masserey

Interesting history here

Arthur Stacey

Best Pokemon stops in town

Stephanie G.

Very nice place to explore about oil industry.kids loved it and lot of activities for the kids and adults to keep them interested. Must visit place in Fort Mcmurray

Anatolii Dibrova

Eddy from Ed Ed n Eddy works here now

John Clifford

Wow...informative displays, interactive pieces, hands on learning.

Bridgette Shivachi

Very informative, great visuals for someone who only ever heard stories about working on the sites. Now I can actually understand what is happening

Bryan Jacobson

Excellent display of the technology, equipment, and science of the oil sands. It's a fitting homage to an era that the next generation will learn of what fossil fuels once were.

STEPHANIE SIMARD

With the Oil Sands Discovery Center now temporarily closed I encourage you to see the videos of the OSDC on YouTube. They may not be the same as seeing in person but are still fascinating.

Craig Parker

Interesting machinery on display here and lots to be learned. Plus a lot of pokestops and a poke gym

Joyce

We love this place

Pam Dechief

I can’t believe it took me 5 years of living in McMurray before I visited this place. It’s a pretty good display with lots to see , do and read as you learn all about the regions industry. My son enjoyed his time too but got anxious as I tried to continue reading the displays. He loved climbing into the heavy hauler and seeing the machines in the back yard. I recommend bringing family to learn about the region especially if they are visiting from out east.

Minesh Mehta

An interactive attraction that gives insights into what really happens in the Tar Sands. Some of the facilities are a bit dated but it was fun for the kids to use their hands and feet to learn and have fun. The demonstrations were well done from the interpreters and it was a good way to spend a couple hours. The garden out back with all of the heavy duty equipment was intriguing.

T K

Very cool!

Brandi Patterson

We had a great tour around the museum, details are well explained.

Jon Simcoe

A must visit when coming to Fort McMurray

Marina

A great place to learn and teach your children about Alberta's economic backbone. Also, kind of looks like a propaganda machine to nullify the harmful media about oil sands.

Iain MacDonald

You have to check it out. Worth the stop.

mathew olynyk

Great place to learn about the oil sands. They held an event on family day which was free and had workshops and science experiments/demo that were family friendly.

Stacy McNally

Excellent exhibition and very informative demonstration.

Maggie Mclennon

We should all get together and watch lord of the rings at this theatre.

-J .R

Everyone needs to visit this place. Good for all ages. Great hands-on, and static displays. Be sure to catch the live demonstration.

youdont knowme

The ecological impact is monitored by REAL scientists. Hired by REAL GREEDY oil companies. Wake up poor people. Our apathy allows the destruction.

Asjad Hasan

History of the oilsands n ft mcmurray. Great learning experience for kids.

Leann Brown

Awesome. So much to see and learn

Sara Stagg

Good place to visit for kids and adults, dont plan a whole day trip, 2 hours are good enough to cover the museum

Michelle Crichton

Nice place

John Walker

So cool, can't wait to come back and do the full tour!

Janice Wakeling

Very informative.

Dan'ette Nelson

What a great place. Its an awesome place for kids and adults.

Tracy Coveney

Informative & fun

Bill Rockwell

Small museum, but informative with great staff.

Greg Curry

The collection and museum was excellent, explaining all the steps of oil discovery and extraction in simple language

Naoual Mrizig

A must see for those new to town or friends/family visiting.