Musée de l'Amérique francophone

This guide to the Musee de l'Amerique francophone in Quebec City opens in eighteen-oh-six, when seminary professor Jerome Demers held a spark of static electricity in his hand and asked whether it was the same force as lightning. You'll hear how Demers and colleague Felix Gatien scrounged and built scientific instruments to found Canada's first museum, really a physics laboratory meant for seminary students to see nature's laws in action. Look for the prisms, orreries, and electrical machines that once made Quebec's future priests gasp out loud.