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Advance tickets are required for all visitors, including members.

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Virtual Field Trips

Experience Ingenium’s museums on a virtual field trip! Students can meet with museum educators from the comfort of their home or classroom.

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STEAM Horizon Awards

2021 STEAM Horizon Awards winners announced!

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Online Resources for Science at Home

Spark the imaginations of curious minds with these at-home activities!

Thank You Front Line Workers!

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One Membership, Three Museums

An Ingenium membership opens the door to discovery at all three of Canada’s museums of science and innovation!

The Museums

Open 9:10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Wednesday to Sunday

901 Prince of Wales Drive

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Open 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Thursday to Monday

11 Aviation Parkway

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Open 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Wednesday to Sunday

1867 St Laurent Blvd

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Events

Members-only Pumpkin Carving Contest

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Sep 29, 2021 - Oct 31, 2021

The deadline to register is October 17, 2021 at midnight

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Astrophotography Tweet-share

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Oct 1, 2021 - Oct 31, 2021

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Cryo-Genius

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Jul 16, 2021 - Dec 31, 2021

11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

Cryo demonstration

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Exhibitions

Soil Superheroes

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Exhibition Type

Permanent Exhibition

Cartoon-style garden landscape, focusing on the soil under the ground. Various colourful characters such as such as a mole, an earthworm, and compost smile to the camera, dressed as superheroes.

Eyes on the Skies: Managing Air Traffic in Canada

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Exhibition Type

Permanent Exhibition

A tiny stylized yellow airplane flies across the sky, towards the right. It leaves a solid line behind it, which curves a few times through the space underneath. Below, realistic white clouds stand out against a dark blue background.

Earth in Focus: Insights from Space

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Exhibition Type

Temporary Exhibition

Planet Earth, taken from space.

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From the Channel

About the Channel

Ingenium Channel is a digital hub featuring curated content related to science, technology and innovation.

Go to the Channel

A coastal reconnaissance Bristol Bolingbroke destined for the Royal Canadian Air Force being assembled at the Fairchild Aircraft Limited factory, Longueuil, Québec, 1941. Anon., “Les C.F. et la R.C.A.F.” Le Samedi, 18 October 1941, (c).

“We must get aircraft equipment and look after our coasts” – The Royal Canadian Air Force and the Bristol Bolingbroke coastal reconnaissance aircraft

Rénald Fortier

How would you like to read a fascinating text while sipping a glass of turnip juice, my reading friend? If so, you are in for a treat, if I may quote the vampire Eric Northman. I think. I hope. And yes, the topic in question is one of the aircraft types in the fabulous collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. Before we go any further on the yellow brick road that we are following today, yours truly would like to mansplain the title of the article published in Le

A composite image of several orange pumpkins, a spacecraft next to a rocky body, and a zombie

3 things you should know about pumpkins, Trojan asteroids, and embracing your inner zombie

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and…

For the October edition, our science advisors discuss how selective breeding results in more choice at the pumpkin patch, a fly-by of seven Trojan asteroids, and why you need to embrace your “inner zombie.” Happy Halloween!

BOARD:
Indigenous Star Knowledge

The prototype of the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter on display at the Canada Aviation Museum, Ottawa, circa 2001. CASM.

From pole to pole and horizon to horizon, the Twin Otter was, is and will be there: A very brief pontification on one of the best Canadian aircraft ever designed

Rénald Fortier

Greetings, my reading friend. Yours truly is happy to see that you wish to drink once again from the fountain of knowledge that our anarchic and overly chatty blog / bulletin / thingee sometimes constitutes. I will not tell you anything you did not already know by saying (typing?) that the supremely illustrious Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, acquired a very important aircraft in October 1981 and ... What do you say? You do not have a clue of what I am talking (typing?)

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Behind the scenes of the Ingenium big move: Hazard mitigation of a print maker’s drawer

The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, February 2009. Wikipedia.

The strange and baffling case of the switched aeroplanes; or, Even when using New Mathematics, 4112 never equals 5878: The tall tale of the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ahh, you are back. What a pleasant surprise. Would I be correct in assuming that you wish to see (read?) the second and final part of this article on the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the fantabulastic Canada Aviation and Space Museum of Ottawa, Ontario? Wunderbar! The story of that particular example of the B.E.2 began in England, in the factory of British & Colonial Aeroplane Company Limited, as most of Europe was busy tearing itself to pieces during the First World War. Completed in late

The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum when it belonged to the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario. H.J. (“Titch”) Jenkins, “Correspondence – Ottawa’s – and Sowrey’s – B.E.2c.” Flight, 12 October 1961, 600.

The strange and baffling case of the switched aeroplanes; or, Even when using New Mathematics, 4112 never equals 5878: The tall tale of the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, part 1

Rénald Fortier

With your permission, or without it if need be, my reading friend, I would like to launch this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee with a question. Do your like mysteries and / or oddities? Me too. By the way, did you know that, as late as 2017, the Public Works & Environmental Services of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, the nonbilingual capital of a bilingual country, sometimes used divining rods to locate an underground pipe suspected of leaking? I kid you not, but I do digress. Now that yours

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Engineering & Technology

Tech tales: Capturing the stories behind Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Ingenium Initiatives

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Indigenous Star Knowledge Symposia: A series of local and international gatherings, on the land and online

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Website: Women in STEM

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Website: Innovation Storybook