Sila at the Canadian Museum of Nature

The Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa opened a new traveling exhibition on climate change last week, called “Sila: Clue in to climate change.”

The exhibit combines western science and traditional knowledge, focusing on the Arctic, and features Inuktitut information on each display.

The trilingual exhibit (English, French and Inuktitut) contains real-life examples of climate change in different parts of the world, and shows how some areas are trying to reduce their use of fossil fuels, using solar walls, for example, to heat some schools in northern Canada and relying on solar energy for cooking in India instead of burning wood or kerosene.

The exhibit is compact (16 feet by 16 feet) and geared to 10- to 15-year-olds.

It will be on display until March 28 at the CMC. Then, copies will be presented simultaneously on April 22, Earth Day, in several major Canadian cities at the co-launch of the National Film Board’s documentary series, “Arctic Mission.”

“Sila,” or weather in Inuktitut, was produced in collaboration with the Centre for Traditional Knowledge and with support from the federal Canada Climate Change Action Fund and the Canadian International Development Agency.