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Find great staff TM The news & jobs magazine from Attractions Management AM2 AM2.jobs 24 JANUARY 2018 ISSUE 96 Vancouver Aquarium reveals plan to end cetacean displays With pressures on cetacean not a candidate for release due to captivity continuing to mount only having partial flippers, and across North America, Canada’s will remain at the facility. Vancouver Aquarium has “Despite independent polling, announced it will no longer year over year, that clearly shows display such animals, instead overwhelming support for our choosing to focus on creating cetacean programme, we have healthier oceans as part of its made the difficult decision to no public education programme. longer display cetaceans, with the The aquarium faced exception of doing what is best controversy in 2017, when for Helen and any need to use two of its whales died in quick the Aquarium for the temporary succession, with Aurora and accommodation of a rescued her daughter Qila dying just cetacean,” a spokesperson for the days apart, leaving the facility Helen the dolphin – the last remaining cetacean at the aquarium aquarium said in a statement. with its signature tank empty. Also last year, the aquarium A five-month investigation into the human interference”. Starting 2017 with announced plans for a CA$100m deaths determined that the cetaceans five cetaceans, the aquarium ended the year (US$76.1m, €72.2m, £61.3m), 12-year were killed because of an unknown toxin with just one: Helen – a Pacific white-sided expansion of its Arctic habitats. introduced “by food, water, or through dolphin rescued in 2005. The 30-year-old is More: http://lei.sr?a=n8H4B_A Revised plans announced for Obama’s Presidential Center Former US president Barack Obama has “Michelle and I want this to be more provided an update on the plans for his than just a building. We want to create an Presidential Center, promising to “create a economic engine for Chicago – a cultural campus for active citizenship in the heart of attraction that showcases the South Side to Chicago’s South Side”. the rest of the world. The design, which was unveiled in May “We want it to be a gathering place – last year, has been created by Tod Williams somewhere for all kinds of people to come Billie Tsien Architects in partnership with together and learn.” Interactive Design Architects (IDEA). The centre’s campus – which sits on According to Obama and his wife, the banks of Lake Michigan – is intended Michelle, the US$350m (€293m, £259.5m) to “energise” the Jackson Park site, with Presidential Center – which is now taller a proposed promenade running along the and sleeker in appearance – will act as part property’s east side, leading to the main of a living, working campus. Museum Building as well as the Museum “While this centre may have my name of Science Industry. on it, it will be a place open to everybody The Museum Building is designed to dedicated to informing and inspiring the Designs show more trees in Jackson Park become a landmark for the South Side. leaders of tomorrow,” said Obama. and a sleeker design for the main building More: http://lei.sr?a=3W2W5_A Magazine sign up at PDF for iPad, Kindle & smart phone Online on digital turning pages Twitter follow us: GET AM2.jobs/subs AM2.jobs/pdf AM2.jobs/digital @am2jobs AM2 Job board live job updates Ezine sign up for weekly updates, Instant sign up for instant alerts, RSS sign up for job & news feeds AM2.jobs AM2.jobs/ezine AM2.jobs/instant AM2.jobs/rss CONTACT US AM2 NEWS Attractions jobs & news AM2.jobs Leisure Media Tel +44 (0)1462 431385 Fax +44 (0)1462 433909 e-mail [email protected] Subscriptions [email protected] Editor Liz Terry +44 (0)1462 431385 AM2 Managing editor Tom Anstey +44 (0)1462 471916 Attractions Management Alice Davis +44 (0)1462 471918 Head of news Rob Gibson +44 (0)1462 471902 Journalists The 70m-long tapestry is currently on display in a museum in Bayeux, Normandy Kim Megson +44 (0)1462 471915 Jane Kitchen +44 (0)1462 471929 AM2 Products editor Bayeux Tapestry coming back to Britain Lauren Heath-Jones +44 (0)1462 471927 The Bayeux Tapestry is set to be loaned when he met British prime minister Theresa AM2 Publisher to a British museum for the first time in May at Sandhurst Military Academy for an Julie Badrick +44 (0)1462 471919 nearly a millennium. 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The islands will be connected by walkway The museum will become the centrepiece of a new cultural district in Shishan Park to the museum, and will serve as both a filtration system for the lake and as a living and underscores its role at the forefront of At the heart of the historic city, which exhibition for the museum. The museum China’s emergence as a technology leader welcomes around 38 million domestic will feature a 66,700sq ft (6,200sq m) indus- and innovator,” said Ralph Johnson, global tourists each year, the Shishan master plan trial exhibition hall, with exhibits high- design director of Perkins+Will. establishes a new cultural district that lighting the role of industrial development. The wider Suzhou Shishan Cultural blends Suzhou’s garden city history with “Our design recognises the importance District has been developed by urban contemporary cultural facilities. of Suzhou in China’s commercial history designers Sasaki Associates. More: http://lei.sr?a=9P8a5_A VR headset with brain sensors catches the eye at CES A new technology utilising eye tracking and brain sensors has been named most inno- vative virtual reality product at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Embedded with Electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors and eye-tracking cameras, LooxidVR allows time-synchronised acquisition of eye and brain data concurrent with VR contents and provides an expandable user and application interface.