The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 90

J2 The Ottawa Citizen, Saturday, August 22, 1992 Travel Visit to the Big Apple provides MUSEUMS a little bite of Ontario history Denmark has one devoted to evolution of erotica By Alan Capon Kingston Whig-Standard By Lars Foyen Reuter TV COLBORNE George Boycott was in Australia when he came across the biggest pineapple in the world. The image of this eye-arresting fruit stuck in his mind. Years later, when he moved to Canada, he decided to create the biggest apple in the world. ComDleted five years ago at a cost of $80,000. the Big Apple is I now the centrepiece of a bur "Many people have seen pictures like these in books but never thought of comparing them with modern pornography," she said.

"See how the women are lush and creative and express erotic pleasure in the same way as the men." The museum blends a raunchy sense of humor with the scholarly approach. But its modern section is only for the most open-minded of visitors. "I have seen Japanese tourists stop their wives from looking," said Bahner. The museum entrance fee about $9.50 Cdn includes a ticket to Ege's 1971 film called Pornography, claimed to be the first porn movie to have an official cinema premiere. The museum's social aspirations are reflected in an auditorium that will be the venue for lec-.

tures on issues such as AIDS and sex education for school children. Three rows of television screens simultaneously show the latest in hard-core videos. "It is not a question of whether you like these videos or not," said Bahner. "This is what has become of erotica after all these centuries and they are part of its history." Some women are critical of the museum's range. "They want to see more men, but what can we do? There are so few men in erotic imagery," said Bahner.

"I wonder if it will ever change." The museum, which opened in July, was created by Danish photographer and film director Ole Ege with his own money and his own extravagant collection of erotica. He feels modern pornography is too impersonal. "Look at those early Japanese prints," said Bahner, guiding a visitor through the ancient section alongside one of the museum's cafes fittingly called the Aphrodite. geoning theme park owned Dy six Colborne-area entrepreneurs. COPENHAGEN An elegantly renovated building that served as a 19th-century brothel offers Copenhagen's newest cultural establishment: the Erotic Museum.

"We do not want to be moralistic, we don't want to change people's views. We just want to show the history of erotica," says Karina Bahner, the museum's information director. The museum has historical exhibits on prostitution in Copenhagen, the love life of famous people like Mussolini and Hans Christian Andersen, the pornography of the 19th century and the dawn of modern erotic images. Its most controversial area is the fourth floor, which is banned to people under 16 years. Here are depicted erotic dreams of the 1990s.

There is also a tableau of wax models engaged in sado-masochistic games. Boycott is not among them, having "sold his shares. The Big Apple, a Mcintosh, is clearly visible to travellers on 401 at Colborne, about 130 kilometres east of Toronto. It stands more than 10 metres I tall, is 11 metres wide and weighs 'more than 42 tonnes, its maae oi CP photo San Quentin's portrays life behind bars Core of park: Visitors tour inside the apple By Leef Smith Washington Post foam insulation material sprayed I on to mesh that is supported on a framework of steel reinforcing rods. "It's quite an apple," says general manager Alf Whittaker, one of the owners.

Inside the apple, visitors learn the Mcintosh is the one true Canadian apple and that all Macs originate from a tree that grew in Dundela, Ont Glass-framed honeycombs inside the Big Apple show the life of honey bees and their role in pollinating apple trees. Peer into a small viewing tube tagged Exit Ramp and industrious bees can be seen both entering and leaving the hive. Standing on the observation platform atop the apple, visitors can see Lake Ontario to the south, as well as the theme park's 11 hectares and neighboring farms. UnJike many theme parks, there is no glitz and glamor at the northern spy apples for their deep-dish pies, apple cake and almond-apple cheesecake. Everything is in apple-pie order at Big Apple's gift shop, which has scores of apple-related items, from T-shirts displaying the theme park's mascot, Mr.

Applehead, to hummingbird feeders looking like large red apples. There are apple necklaces and magnets, wind chimes and golf caps, candy apple kits and apple clocks. Each fall, neighboring Brighton has a big Applefest. This year the event, which includes a parade, carnival and arts and crafts displays, takes place Sept 24-27. Clyde Washington, 53, started serving time at San Quentin 14 months ago for second-degree burglary.

He volunteered time and his building skills to the non-profit museum. "I didn't really care much for working with exhibits like the gas chamber," he said. "It kind of bothered me. But if I learned one thing from working in here, it's if you're going to be in a prison, it's better to do it in the Ws than in the "30s." The $l-million museum collection, which was unveiled formally Aug. 7 and contains about 100,000 pieces, chronicles nearly 120 years of San Quentin history.

The modest museum building, once the home of a former warden, is inside the prison compound, just a few hundred feet from the cellblocks and death row. Officials say they are trying to devise a security plan that allows visitors inside while keeping low-security inmates from sneaking outside. Big Apple park, which is open every day except Christmas. The park features a 10-minute Garden of Eden walk (with the apples but without the serpent), a zoo area with pygmy goats, llamas and fallow deer, and a pond stocked with goldfish. There's mini-golf, a basketball game called Bank Shot, a duck pond and a restaurant and gift shop.

Under construction are a country general store and 300-seat banquet hall. "We're trying to add an attraction a year," Whittaker says. The Canadian Mcintosh is well promoted in the Big Apple but, in fact, the park's bakers use only SAN QUENTLN, Calif. After nine years of planning, one of the United States' most notorious prisons has opened its gates and a new museum to the public. Rich with artifacts from the California landmark's 140-year history, the San Quentin State Prison exhibit is more suited to the morbidly curious than the squeamish.

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