Coeur des Sciences UQAM

Visited this beautifully renovated heritage building yesterday for a Girl Geeks /​MTL New Tech event. I’d ogled the massive pillars of this impressive monument on Sherbrooke Street a bunch of times and wondered what went on in the ‘heart of Science.’ Yesterday I only got to venture into the lofty lobby, and then down some narrow metal steps and flourescent hallways to the suddenly-​lovely conference room below. The balance between comfortable chairs, excellent audio and projection facilities and delicate old high moldings overcame the looming sense of sleepy clinical coldness in a science schoolroom. The 300 badass women of tech helped too.