Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame at COP

Location:     169 Canada Olympic Road SW – at Canada Olympic Park

Gordie’s review (7 years old): “I liked the games and stuff.”
Nicky’s review (4 years old): “I liked the balance thing” [from the changing gallery room]
Robbie’s review (14 months old): Really enjoyed just playing with the balls in the changing gallery room

Day Pass Cost: General $12, Youth (4-18) $8, 3 and under – free, Family $35.
Annual Pass Break Even point: General 5 visits, Youth 4 visits, Family 3 visits

Parking: free parking lot
Food Services: Vending machine and seating area

Age Range: All ages.
Stay Length: 60-120 minutes.

Overall: Although this was our first visit to Canada’s Hall of Fame, we had been to the Alberta Hall of Fame and Museum in Red Deer last summer and were hoping it would be as least as good.

We were not disappointed, it was fun for the kids with beautiful eye catching displays. I found the staff to be really helpful and seemed to genuinely care and want you to have a good experience.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

We went on a weekday morning during Spring Break. I found it pretty stress free to take the kids because although there are some things that you are asked not to touch like the statues, for the most part everything is well protected in glass cases. And each area has things that you can touch and interact with making it a lot of fun.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

You first enter into the Grand Hall where you can find the Wall of Fame and see great sporting stories all around.  To the left you’ll find the Riddell Family Theatre which plays an 11 minute film “Canada’s Greatest Sport Moments” which plays every 30 minutes.

It was highly recommended by the guide at the front so we made a point of seeing it. I’m really glad we did – the film was fast paced and I may have even teared up a little. It held the attention of my 4 and 7 year old easily.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

You go around the museum in a loop with Winter Sports on one side and Summer Sports on the other.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

They really give you a lot to look at with things place high and low and sometimes even in the floor.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

They also have flooring from some of the different kinds of sports which I thought was pretty neat.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

They have a lot of different interactive elements which my kids loved. In this one, you push down on the bar and get to pretend you are ski jumping.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

In this one you got to try out shadow boxing.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Here you got to pretend to be a goalie. The helmet makes the screen look 3D and the glove gives you some feedback.

They have a similar baseball version too.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

You can also try out rowing.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Sort of simulate being a racecar driver.

And wheelchair racing.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

You can try out sports announcing.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

And live reporting. This one took a minute for us to get a handle on but it was super cute. There is a teleprompter that you are supposed to read in front of the green screen.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

It gives you a practice run and then records the second time around. It will then play it back to you on the second screen and you can record a video of it on your phone if you want.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

There is a netted area where you can play games with real equipment by throwing or kicking it at the screen like football and soccer.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

You should totally try out zombie dodgeball because it is hilarious and fun.  The final area is the Changing Gallery which features different exhibits and can be different from visit to visit.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

On our visit there were a lot of different things set up for the kids.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Like putting.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Another one of those interactive screens.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Balance boards that my kids loved.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

A balance beam and other things including hoops, coloring, duplo and puzzles.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Throughout the museum there were different screens where you can see video clips or ones like the one above where you could learn a little bit about different sports and then try out the skills you were taught on the screen.

And of course there are many many different amazing and impressive sports artifacts. We went through Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame fairly slowly and were there for about 2 hours.

I was really impressed and to be quite honest, although I love watching the Olympics, I am not really that interested in sports. I highly recommend taking your kids to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

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