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Canada Day

Join Ingenium's museums for a lineup of Canada Day family fun!

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Health in Space: Daring to Explore

Listen as astronauts share their first-hand experiences, and explore surprising artifacts that reveal how Canada has contributed to advancing our understanding of health in space.

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.

Soil Superheroes

Soil Superheroes provides visitors with an underground perspective on the importance of soil science and conservation.

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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 a.m. – 5 p.m., seven days a week

901 Prince of Wales Drive

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Open 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Thursday to Monday

11 Aviation Parkway

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Open 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., seven days a week

1867 St Laurent Blvd

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Events

Canada Day Fun: Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

9:30 am - 4:00 pm

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

9:30 am - 4:00 pm

A red-and-white illustration depicts a kitchen whisk and an apple inside a cloud shape; small maple leaves are scattered all around the image.

Canada Day Fun: Canada Aviation and Space Museum

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

A red-and-white illustration depicts an astronaut and stars inside a cloud shape; small maple leaves are scattered all around the image.

Canada Day Fun: Canada Science and Technology Museum

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Canada Science and Technology Museum

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

A red-and-white illustration depicts a prism and a liquid-filled glass inside a cloud shape; small maple leaves are scattered all around the image.

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Exhibitions

Soil Superheroes

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Exhibition Type

Temporary Exhibition

Available until August 23, 2022

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.

Artifact Alley

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Exhibition Type

Permanent Exhibition

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Kenneth Albert Arnold. Anon., “Boise Airman Positive He Didn’t See Ordinary Craft Reflections.” The Idaho Daily Statesman, 28 June 1947, 9.

“Everyone has seen the flying saucers, except journalists:” The first sightings of unidentified flying objects / unidentified aerial phenomena in the province of Québec, 24 June to 19 July 1947, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Greetings, my reading friend, greetings. As many people around the globe take stock of the 75th anniversary of Kenneth Albert Arnold’s now famous 24 June 1947 sighting of 9 unidentified flying objects, soon described as flying saucers, moving at very high speed near Mount Rainier, in the state of Washington, it would be interesting to look at the early days of the modern flying saucer phenomenon through the eyes of the papers aimed at the major segment of the population of what could be

A typical advertisement for a product offered by O-Pee-Chee Gum Company of London, Ontario. Anon., “O-Pee-Chee Gum Company.” The Aylmer Express, 6 June 1912, 5.

“Chew Chew Chew Chew Your Bubble Gum:” The sweet old times of O-Pee-Chee Gum Company Limited of London, Ontario

Rénald Fortier

I have a favour to ask, my reading friend. Would you be willing to entertain the possibility of accepting a well-known if defunct Canadian confectionery company as a worthwhile topic under our agriculture and food heading? Much obliged. You will of course have noted that today’s illustration was / is brought to us by The Aylmer Express, a newspaper which still existed as of 2022. Even though that particular name made its appearance in that small Ontario town located near Ottawa, Ontario, in

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Three images side by side, grocery shelves full of eggs in clear trays, coral reefs seen from space, and a map of Canada divided into four differently coloured shapes.

3 things you should know about egg refrigeration, coral reef satellite maps, and watersheds

Advertisement for the Isetta manufactured by Isetta of Great Britain Limited. Anon., “City Motors Limited.” The Gazette, 21 November 1957, 2.

Road Transportation

A look under the hood of one of the symbols of the West German economic miracle of the 1950s; or, The multifaceted and multinational tale of the Isetta microcar, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Buongiorne, amico lettore, buongiorno e benvenuti a questa seconda e ultima parte del nostro articolo su un uovo italiano su ruote, l’Iso Isetta. You will remember that this Italian microcar was mainly produced in West Germany. This being said (typed?), that country was not the only one where an assembly line was set up, which explains in part the several nicknames given to the Isetta: in West Germany, rollende Ei (rolling egg); in Argentina, ratón alemán (German mouse); in Brazil, bola de

A typical BMW 250 or 300. Devon Francis, “What you get in the foreign economy cars.” Popular Science, June 1957, 62.

Road Transportation

A look under the hood of one of the symbols of the West German economic miracle of the 1950s; or, The multifaceted and multinational tale of the Isetta microcar, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Buongiorno, amico lettore, buongiorno. Come vanno le cose? […] Bene, bene. Vorrei discutere con voi di una storia molto interessante. La storia sfaccettato e multinazionale della microvetture Isetta. Iniziamo senza ulteriori indugi. Let us indeed start without further ado, in English if I you allow me. Once upon a time, in 1945, once the Second World War was over, there was an Italian manufacturer of electric heaters and refrigerators, as well as household appliances, Società Anonima Isothermos

A Spitz planetarium projector at the Planetario Municipal Agrimensor Germán Barbato, the first planetarium in South America, inaugurated in 1955, Montevideo, Uruguay, February 2015. Fedaro via Wikimedia.

Blessed be the one who brings the wonders of the cosmos to the multitude: Armand Neustadter Spitz and his planetarium projectors, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Greetings, and welcome to the world of planetariums. You will remember that, in part 1 of this article of our incomparable blog / bulletin / thingee, we had gone through the early stages of the remarkable life of Armand Neustadter Spitz. Let us follow through by going through the later stages of that remarkable life, the part which concerns his contribution to the development of planetarium projectors. Indeed, Spitz seemingly believed that a planetarium was the best teaching aid ever invented

Armand Neustadter Spitz. Hilaire Cuny, “Sciences et techniques – La plus gigantesque tentative de notre temps: La conquête de l’espace cosmique.” Combat, 15 May 1957, 6.

Blessed be the one who brings the wonders of the cosmos to the multitude: Armand Neustadter Spitz and his planetarium projectors, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Greetings, my reading friend. I have a question for you. Have you ever seen a planetarium show? My fogged-up mind tells me I have but it has no recollection of where or when that experience took place. Memory is a fickle thing, as you well know. The harder one tries to remember something or other, the greater the chances that whatever comes out of the exercise will differ significantly from what really took place. Adding in the mix someone whose only wish is to “help” you remember often

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