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Picture of Brooke in the Canada Science and Technology Museum Archives.]
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Article
Library and Archives

Behind the scenes: A glimpse at life in a museum’s archives

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Sep 13, 2019
When I first started my four-month student placement at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, I had no idea that I’d get the chance to work in two different climates, visit every province across the country, and see a giant artifact roll across the museum parking lot. Museum life sure can surprise you!
An image of a satellite in space, microplastics, and soybeans.
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Blog
Space
Agriculture
Earth & Environment

3 things you should know — September edition

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Sep 10, 2019
Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. These Ingenium employees are professional science communicators, and provide expert advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this new monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science communicators offer up three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the September edition,
Soviet astrophysicist Alla Genrikhovna Masevich and her daughter, Natasha Josifovna Friedlander. Sam Schecter, “Deux Canadiens en Russie – Rencontres avec l’élite russe.” Le Soleil / Perspectives, 26 September 1959, 11.
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Space

Her name is Masevich, Alla Genrikhovna Masevich

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Sep 9, 2019
Hello, hello, and hello, my reading friend. As part of the year of space that is 2019, yours truly wishes to offer you a topic which will, at least this is my hope, be of interest. And no, there will not be a test. My employer, the colossal Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, being what it is, it is also my hope that you will not be outraged by the topic I chose for this week. Said topic has to do with astronomy, a field in which the museum should be involved in. Dare I say
a scientist in clean-room clothing holding a CCD sensor that was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope
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Blog
Engineering & Technology

The untold story behind your smartphone camera

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Sep 4, 2019
[A shorter version of this article was originally written for Space Matters ] As a planet we take a lot of pictures. Like… A LOT a lot. Estimates are in and around the 1-trillion-per-year mark, the vast majority of which are taken by smartphones. Every day, millions of people are taking pictures with an ease that was unprecedented even 20 years ago. And one of the biggest reasons why this is so easy now is because space scientists invested in charge-coupled device (CCD) technology decades ago.
Alexandre Paul Poiret and the models who delivered (?) his costumes for the musical Afgar using Aircraft Transport & Travel Limited. Anon., “L’aéroplane employé pour les transports commerciaux entre la France et l’Angleterre.” Le Miroir, 28 September 1919, 16.
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Aviation

Special delivery for Mongo, sorry, Afgar!

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Sep 3, 2019
Hail, my reading friend. Yours truly wishes to use this week’s topic of our blog / bulletin / thingee to atone, with much delay, unfortunately, for my obvious lack of enthusiasm for a temporary exhibition project, not realized actually, at the National Aviation Museum, today’s Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario. For a variety of reasons, I did not believe that the air cargo industry and its history was an interesting topic. I was wrong. Sorry VD. To convince you of this fact,
Panoramic photograph of delegates to the 1883 International Fisheries Exhibition in London. Below the image is a hand-drawn silhouette, used for identification purposes.
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Article
Fisheries

Anniversary of an excursion: Canadians at the 1883 London fisheries exhibition

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Aug 30, 2019
The author works at a desk with tools, with a variety of colourful materials in front of him.
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Education
Engineering & Technology
Blog

Designing a STEM activity: My co-op experience at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

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Profile picture for user Nafis Faiyaz
Aug 27, 2019
When visiting museums, I have often taken part in hands-on activities to get a better sense of the historical significance of an exhibition. However, it was not until my three-week summer placement at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum that I truly understood the complex logistics behind such activities. It takes a whole lot of planning, testing, and paperwork to get a public program going smoothly! I got a taste of these steps this past summer; I had the chance to help create an engaging

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