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Ingenium museums will be closed January 5 to 31.

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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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An adult and a child extend their hands out to stroke the nose of a large, black horse. They are standing inside a stable at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, and the horse is behind a metal enclosure.

One Membership, Three Museums

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

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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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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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Closed January 5 to 31
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901 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, ON
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Recipes

Browse the Healthy Kids Quest offering from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
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Collection Highlights

John Deere 720 LP Tractor - Ingenium 1983.0360

John Deere 720 LP Tractor - Ingenium 1983.0360

Canada has a long and rich history of innovation in science and technology. The artifacts collected, preserved, and displayed in the three museums of Ingenium showcase this history. Each artifact tells a fascinating story of innovation and illustrates how science and technology have contributed to the transformation of Canada. Find out more about many of these artifacts here.

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From the Channel
An advertisement of the Société auxiliaire agricole of Paris, France, showing a Pavesi P4 or Agrophile-Pavesi agricultural tractor in action. Anon., “Société auxiliaire agricole,” L’Agriculture nouvelle, 14 January 1922, 4.
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Agriculture

Once upon a time there was an acrobat tractor: The beautiful although partly military story of the Pavesi P4 farm tractor and the career of Ugo Pavesi

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Jan 23, 2022
Hello, my reading friend, hello. It is with a certain trepidation that yours truly approaches the subject of this week. I feel a certain discomfort at the idea of ​​talking about an agricultural tractor designed in Italy during the years during which the Partito nazionale fascista, an unsavoury
A spliced, three-part image depicts a green-and-red plastic gadget attached to a cow’s tail, a composite image showing hundreds of meteors, and a close-up of a pair of glasses sitting on top of an open book.
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Agriculture

3 things you should know about tech-enabled cows, meteors, and presbyopia

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Jan 14, 2022
For the January edition, we explain new technology which is making cow births safer, an international citizen science initiative for monitoring meteors, and how a new eye drop is improving vision for the middle-aged consumer.
Advertisement published by the Zeller’s Limited stores of Calgary, Alberta, which highlighted the Reely Ride-’em tractor produced by Reliable Toy Company Limited of Toronto, Ontario. Anon., “Zeller’s Limited.” The Calgary Herald, 11 December 1961, 32.
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Agriculture

Toys, glorious toys, we are anxious to try them: A few pages on Reliable Toy Company Limited of Toronto, Ontario

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Dec 26, 2021
A slightly tardy Merry Christmas, my reading friend, even though yours truly must admit this is an odd Christmas indeed. It occurred to me that a toy, or a toy manufacturing firm, could be an appropriate topic for this week’s issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee. A toy I may well have come across
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Projects & Initiatives

Learn more about the Canola exhibition at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Canola: Seeds of Innovation

Image of an egg, glass jar of sauce and a tomato
Food Preservation: The Science You Eat

3 posters from the Women in STEM series
Website: Women in STEM