Eat Make Share

The Eat Make Share: A Taste of Immigration exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 explores the deep connections between food and immigration in Canada. Travelling from May 10, 2025, to January 18, 2026, this immersive experience highlights how over 400 years of immigration has shaped Canadian cuisine and food traditions. Visitors can engage with hands-on activities, explore new and forgotten foods, and uncover the surprising histories behind popular Canadian dishes. The exhibit also showcases the perspectives of Indigenous Peoples and the diverse ways individuals and communities express themselves through food.

On a short fabrication timeline, AtlantexCreativeWorks produced 42 separate exhibits and installed it all into 1500 ft2 of exhibit space. The entire exhibit  was designed and fabricated to be mobile, able to be set up and dismantled easily. The exhibit is divided up into 3 zones. Each with their own set of interpretation and interactive experiences. EAT, focuses on the diverse array of foods, ingredients and recipes that made their way to Canada alongside two centuries of immigrants, MAKE, chronicling the new and different ways new Canadians prepare and serve their traditional dishes, and SHARE, a collection of stories on how we partake and interact with culture through food.

Being a large exhibition, Atlantex was put to task fabricating a diverse array of components. This included interpretive panels and reader rails, ordering the proper Octanorm pieces, food models and interactive blighted potatoes, interactive interpretation, a spinning wheel game with 3 simultaneously spinning discs, sealed acrylic cases, artifact enclosures, a lazy-susan maple syrup display, digital monitor housing and interpretation, a Coffin Ship replica walkthrough, a replica Chinese restaurant dining area, vinyl graphics and murals, SEG fabric graphics, steel and aluminum baseplates, a standing caribou panel, custom wood framing  and custom painting. After the completion of the exhibit, Atlantex fabricated 21 transportation crates to contain all the components of the travelling exhibit.