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Welcome Back!

The museums are reopening to the public! Advance tickets required.

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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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Soil Superheroes

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

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Draw with Rob Canada

Try these fun draw-along videos to inspire your curious minds about agriculture topics.

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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!

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

901 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, ON

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The museum is open! Advanced tickets are required

To ensure a safe and enjoyable visit for our visitors and staff, health and safety guidelines are in place across all our sites.

Events

Hangouts with the Farm: July Edition

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Jul 15, 2021 - Jul 29, 2021

English activity at 9:30 a.m., French activity at 11:15 a.m.

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Hangouts with the Farm: August Edition

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Aug 5, 2021 - Aug 19, 2021

English activity at 9:30 a.m., French activity at 11:15 a.m.

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Culinary Curiosities: Lemon Blueberry Muffins + Fruit Smoothie

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

10 a.m. to 11 a.m. (English session) and 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. (French session)

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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.

Canola! Seeds of Innovation

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Exhibition Type

Permanent Exhibition

Canola! Seeds of Innovation

Space to Spoon

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Exhibition Type

Permanent Exhibition

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Programs & Resources

Educational Programs

Healthy Kids Quest

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 showing an Italian SAME Buffalo tractor. Anon. “Advertising – Les Entreprises Biasotto & Hardy (Canada) Incorporée.” Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, July 1981, 26.

They were all the same, brothers to each other: Francesco Cassani, Eugenio Gabriele Cassani and the Società Accomandita Motori Endotermici (SAME)

Rénald Fortier

Buongiorno, my reading friend. As part of the efforts initiated by yours truly to diversify the content of our blog / bulletin / thingee, I would like to offer you today a text, a short text, yes, yes, short, of an agricultural nature. Our story began in Italy, in April 1906 and September 1909, with

Close-up of a hand holding brown soil, a cosmic illustration of spaceships flying across colourful planets, a hiking trail that runs through a deciduous forest.

3 things you should know about soil biology, space tourism, and the healing power of nature

An advertisement for a hay cutter made by La Machine Agricole Nationale Limitée of Montmagny, Québec. Anon., “Advertisement – La Machine Agricole Nationale Limitée.” Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, 11 June 1921, 556.

Don’t let it be forgot that once there was a firm, for one brief shining moment, that was known as La Machine Agricole Nationale Limitée of Montmagny, Québec

Rénald Fortier

As you may have noticed, I hope, my reading friend, our blog / bulletin / thingee regularly opens its columns to topics of an agricultural or food nature. Yours truly will not derogate from this rule in this month of June 2021. Thus, I hereby and heretofore offer you a peroration on a firm whose

Projects & Initiatives

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

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Food Preservation: The Science You Eat

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