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Eric Bunnell's People: Elgin County Heritage Centre offers a 'Jumbo' keepsake

The 36-page, full-colour catalogue of the exhibition also includes some bonus material

Elephants may never forget. But human memory, well, it’s hardly perfect.

But as the Jumbomania exhibition at the Elgin County Heritage Centre enters its final weeks — the show closes March 21 — the museum has now stocked a keepsake to remember what may be its best-attended attraction in recent memory.

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A 36-page, full-colour catalogue of the exhibition with more than 165 photographs was delivered Tuesday this week from the printer.

It’s not only a memento of the show, says Jumbomania curator Dariusz Korbiel, who estimates he spent “well over 300 hours” creating the book. There’s more.

“There’s bonus material that’s not in the exhibition,” he says. “You’ll have to get the catalogue to find out.”

Priced at $19.99 plus tax, the catalogue adds to a store of Jumbomania souvenirs created for the exhibition and available at the heritage centre. Most popular so far, key chains and fridge magnets, says museum assistant Ally Shelly, an admitted magnet collector. (“It’ll be a sad day if I get a fridge that’s not magnetic,” she asides.)

The heritage centre currently is open winter hours, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday to Friday, but also will open Saturdays — March 14 and March 21 — during March Break to offer special activities for kids and Elgin County Museum’s green screen attraction, which allows visitors to be inserted into historical Jumbo photographs.

Following Jumbomania, the heritage centre will install Eyes on the Skies, a travelling exhibition from Ingenium, Ottawa, about Canadian air traffic control.

(Full disclosure: Some guy named Bunnell is listed as a Jumbomania catalogue contributor.)

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