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Holiday Programming at the Museums

Celebrate the holiday season with the Ingenium museums!

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2022 STEAM Horizon Awards

Applications are now open! We're awarding $25,000 scholarships to students with inspiring achievements!

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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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Online Resources for Science at Home

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

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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., Wednesday to Sunday

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., Wednesday to Sunday

1867 St Laurent Blvd

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Events

Winter Frolic at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Dec 13, 2021 - Jan 2, 2022

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

A graphical image depicts a little gingerbread man skating under a star-studded night sky. Stylized green-and-white trees stand along the snowy horizon, and a crescent Moon is visible.

Prepare for holiday lift-off at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Dec 1, 2021 - Jan 10, 2022

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

A graphical image depicts the James Webb Space Telescope in a star-studded night sky, next to the Moon. Stylized blue-and-white trees stand along the snowy horizon.

Holiday hunting at the Canada Science and Technology Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Dec 1, 2021 - Jan 10, 2022

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

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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.

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The Douglas DC-8 jetliner of Canadian Pacific Airlines Limited of Vancouver, British Columbia, known as Empress of Montreal. Anon., “Empress of Montreal DC-8 First CPA Jet Visitor.” The Gazette, 6 December 1961, 17.

An article whose punchline I am reluctant to divulge so early in the game: Or, A speedy DC used by CP

Rénald Fortier

True or false, my reading friend, the Franco-British Aérospatiale / British Aircraft Concorde was the first airliner to break the sound barrier. The answer to that ToF is… False. Yes, false. The Concorde was not even the second airliner to break the sound barrier. Nay. That honour belonged / belongs to a Tupolev Tu-144, which did the deed in June 1969. A Concorde broke the sound barrier in October of that same year. I kid you not. This being said (typed?), yours truly is all but certain that you

Two gingerbread and sugar creations are pictured against a dark backdrop; a model of the James Webb Space Telescope is in the foreground, and the Ariane 5 rocket is visible in the background.

Gingerbread art launches the holiday season at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

BOARD:
Indigenous Star Knowledge

The United States Air Force Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar cargo plane borrowed by Iron Ore Company of Canada Incorporated in 1951. Anon., “Fret aérien – L’opération Ungava – Le fret aérien accélère l’application d’un projet. » Interavia, December 1951, 672.

“In the interests of national security”: The role played by a United States Air Force Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar cargo plane in the development of the Knob Lake region’s iron ore deposits

Rénald Fortier

Greetings, my reading friend, and grab a seat. I will be right with you. Creating a philosopher’s stone is no easy matter, especially when people keep interrupting. Just ask Nicolas Flamel, the Potterian one, not the real one who was a public writer, copyist and sworn bookseller. Not an alchemist. Once upon a time, in November 1949, several (5 or 6?) American steelmakers incorporated Iron Ore Company of Canada Incorporated (IOCC), an American firm in spite of its name. At the time, the

The Vertol Model 42 of Skyrotors Limited of Arnprior, Ontario, chartered by Spartan Air Services Limited of Ottawa, Ontario, as part of Operation High Tower. Anon., “Operation High Tower.” The Ottawa Citizen, 8 November 1961, 3.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to move stuff around: Spartan Air Services Limited of Ottawa, Ontario, the Ottawa radio station CFRA and Operation High Tower

Rénald Fortier

Given how lazy yours truly tends to be, my reading friend, yes, yes, lazy, I admit it, I chose this week’s topic of our blog / bulletin / thingee because it could be put forward in a relatively brief pontification. Our tale began in the fall of 1961 with a telephone call to John A. “Johnny” Roberts, one of the founders of a firm which, only a few years before, had been one the largest and most active aerial survey and photography firm in Canada, a firm known both locally and globally, Spartan

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Behind the scenes: Meet Ingenium’s travelling exhibitions team

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

At Ingenium, the travelling exhibitions team works hard to make a range of exhibitions accessible to communities across Canada and beyond. The Ingenium Channel sat down with the team to find out more about what their work entails — and a new carbon-neutral shipping initiative.

One of the two life-size aluminum alloy sculptures of whooping cranes created by Wolfram F. Niessen for Regina Municipal Airport, Regina, Saskatchewan. Anon., “Regina Honors the Whooping Crane.” The Ottawa Citizen, Weekend Magazine, 18 November 1961, 38.

Let’s talk about art, humans. All the humans. Louder now. Help me out. – Wolfram F. Niessen, John Cullen Nugent and the life-size aluminum alloy sculptures of whooping cranes created for Regina Municipal Airport

Rénald Fortier

Let us indeed talk (read?) about art, airport art to be more precise, my reading friend. When the Second World War came to an end, in 1945, the terminal buildings of Canada’s largest airports were by no means huge buildings. Indeed, one could argue they looked a lot, and felt a lot, like bus depots. As the accumulated desire of passengers to travel was released, these terminal buildings became busier and busier. In 1946, approximately 837 000 people travelled by air in Canada. By 1956

A close-up front view of the telescope’s primary mirror which resembles a golden honeycomb; a secondary mirror is folded up in front of it.

The James Webb Space Telescope: A powerful new space observatory

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

text on image: innovation worth celebrating
Website: Innovation Storybook