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Spend the day wandering around Dawson City and you’ll find interesting nuggets hidden in every nook and cranny.
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Spend the day wandering around Dawson City and you’ll find interesting nuggets hidden in every nook and cranny.
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Near the gazebo, Waterfront Park
Dawson YT Y0B 1G0
Canada
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Summer Hours:
The Camera Obscura hours are posted onsite. A key can also be signed out from the Dawson City Visitor Information Centre or from the ODD Gallery.
Year-round access via appointment through the ODD Gallery at Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
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Walk inside, let your eyes adjust to the darkness and watch as a moving image of the outside world reveals itself. The Camera Obscura is a public art installation and fun quirk in Dawson's vibrant artistic scene. It is maintained by the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture.
Migrating across the domains of art, science, and popular entertainment the camera obscura held a prominent place in the visual culture of previous centuries. Ranging from small portable devices to permanent walk-in structures, these are darkened spaces in which live images of the outside world appear through seemingly magical means. With origins in Chinese, Greek and Islamic cultures, cameras obscura gained central importance in the optical culture of early modern Europe. Today these optical devices hold a continued fascination for artists and scholars – whether for the pleasure of their curious and inherently simple projected images or as a point of departure for a range of critical, historical and theoretical interests. [Source: Thompson River University]
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