Yes, there is a connection. The Hobberlin Museum was owned and operated by my mother, Hedy Hobberlin and myself, Christine Hobberlin. We ran the museum for over 20 years but financial cut backs forced the Toronto District school board to terminate our contract in 2002. I still have a large number of museum specimens (mammoth tusls, polar bear (!), bison head, human and animal bones?rocks, crystals, fossils, dinosaur bones, as well as space technology and actual space shuttle tiles and meteorites, just to name a few things) but the current education climate is not interested in restarting the museum. It's a shame because we offered natural history programs that nicely complemented the Grades 2-13 Science, History, Geography and other mandated subjects.
I would love to reopen the museum and would welcome any comments or suggestions. Thanks, Christine.
