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Canada‘s only museum of vision, UW‘s Museum of Visual Science, includes, among its more than 9,000 items, glasses that have graced privileged faces over the past 300 years, including those of Bob Hope, actor Anthony _ Hopkins _ and supermodel Kathy Ireland. Here you can also learn why optical illusions work, peer at antique equipment for examining eyes, much of it from pioneer Ontario, and join curator Lauren Walker in the lab to dissect a cow‘s eye and to learn the parts of the eye and how they work. Where else could you learn that Benjamin Franklin, besides his role as philosopher and his famous exploits with kites and lightâ€" ning, was the inventor of bifocals over 200 years ago because he tired of the bothâ€" er of changing back and forth between his reading and distance glasses? For information, call 888â€"4567, ext. 3405. Vision of a different sort is offered at Brubacher House. â€" Curators _ Judith Friesen Epp and Arlyn Friesen Epp welcome you to the majestic stone farmâ€" house of the Brubachers, a large Mennonite family who came to settle here in 1800, drawn by the promise of cheap land and life under British rule. During an hourâ€"long tour, the curator couple shows the home‘s handâ€" made furniture and conâ€" struction and answers quesâ€" tions about pioneer life in Upper Canada. There is also a video of presentâ€"day Mennonites in activities that would have been familiar to the Brubachers such as a "While the Mennonites lived in a simple way that they call ‘plain,‘ they could also be very creative," says Judith Friesen Epp. "Look at their quilts, for example. Using just old fabric, they made these beautiful, someâ€" times very colorful designs with a very practical use. " Do ghosts of the Brubachers and their 14 children haunt their home today? She smiles. "If there are any voicâ€" es from the past, they are friendly ones. There is such a good feeling in this houseâ€"you will know that when you come to visit©" How much of your body weight is actually water? What do gemstones look like under magnification? How big is a dinosaur‘s footprint? What did passenger pigeons, extinct for almost a century now, look like, #hd why did they vanish? You can learn all these things at the interâ€" active and handsâ€"on Biology and Earth Sciences Museum; plus see a petrified tree, displays that show how we use (and conserve) water, and see the course hair of a mammoth that lived over 40,000 years ago in Russia. For information call 886â€" 3855. What‘s the most popular offering among the over 10,000 visitors to this museâ€" um each year? "It depends on the age," says curator Peter Russell. "Little kids in kindergarten up to Grade 3 love the dinosaurs. For people in Grade 4, it‘s rocks and minâ€" erals, and we have a lot of Grade 4 classes coming in. Interestingly enough, the big thing for adults is, definitely, the jade collection." Russell presents _ programs _ for groups (by appointment) on dinosaurs, fossil hunting, rocks and minerals, groundâ€" water and water, and our environment. Families are welcome to join these groups. For information call 886â€"3855. Ever play the Mork and Mindy game? Or how about tabletop hockey, the badâ€" weather version of our beloved national sport? Or Home of... jarreT? smitH, MIKE MORREALE, CHRIS JIOSKOS, MIKE O‘SHEA, PAUL MASOTTL VAL ST.GERMAIN, MIKE VANDERJAGT, JOANNE MALLAR, STEVE STAIOS and DONOVAN BAILEY Westmount Place Shopping Centre, Waterloo ph.(5191 884â€"8558 .D WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP DE LA HOYA vs. MOSLEY Sunday, June 25, 2000...8:00 pm WWF "King of the Ring" Saturday, June 24, 2000 ... TYSON vs. SAVARISE solo, a card game? Here‘s your chance to enjoy them at the world‘s only museum devoted exclusively to the playing of games, G.M. Avedon Museum of Archives and Games. It reopened May 11 with a new exhibit conâ€" tinuing to Oct. 31. Board _ Games _ and Technology of the 20th Century traces the history of such beloved board games as Monopoly and Scrabble and lesserâ€"known games such as the Leave It To Beaver Money Maker Game "as seen on TV" in 1954. If you and your kids are fans of modern computer games, this museum exhibit is where you can also learn the fascinating history of their ancestors, the early video games, says UW graduate student â€" and â€" coâ€"curator Bernie Range (who shares the position with fellow stuâ€" dent Annâ€"Marie Cantwell). The collection is "vast", says Range, but the museâ€" um‘s space is smallâ€"just one room. For this reason, the exhibits change completely every six months. â€" "I think it is important for families to play games together, and not to lose that, especially with televiâ€" sion and the influx of techâ€" nology, because games give us this opportunity to learn about ourselves and others as we interact. And, of course, games offer such great entertainment value." At this museum, you don‘t just look at the collecâ€" tion in casesâ€"you actually get to sit right down and play these games with your kidsâ€"just one of â€" the delights awaiting you during your family outing this sumâ€" mer to the University of Waterloo. For information, call 888â€"4424.