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Advance tickets are required for all visitors, including members.

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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.

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.

Thriving from Our Roots celebrates the Anishinàbe Algonquin language

Honouring Algonquin culture

Experience this Algonquin language installation, Nidòndàdizimin nidjìbikànàng: Thriving from Our Roots, a collaboration with Kitigan Zibi Anishinàbeg.

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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., Wednesday 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

Members-only Pumpkin Carving Contest

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Sep 29, 2021 - Oct 31, 2021

The deadline to register is October 17, 2021 at midnight

Pumpkins, both carved and not, alongside other halloween-style decorations outside on a table

Culinary Curiosities: Virtual Baking Classes

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Various times; see description

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Daily Interpretation

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Jul 16, 2021 - Jul 16, 2022

Available year-round, Wednesday to Sunday

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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.

Discovery Park — Outdoor Exhibition

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Exhibition Type

Permanent Exhibition

outdoor image : blue sky, trees, benches with a sign that says "Discovery Park"

Canola! Seeds of Innovation

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Exhibition Type

Permanent Exhibition

Canola! Seeds of Innovation

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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

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3 things you should know about pumpkins, Trojan asteroids, and embracing your inner zombie

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the October edition, our science advisors discuss how selective breeding results in more choice at the pumpkin patch, a fly-by of seven Trojan asteroids, and why you need to embrace your “inner zombie.” Happy Halloween!

Isidore Joseph Amédée Marsan. Anon., “Isidore Joseph Amédée Marsan.” Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, 17 September 1921, cover.

One of the pioneers of agricultural science in Québec and Canada: Isidore Joseph Amédée Marsan

Rénald Fortier

As a member of the species Homo sapiens, or wise man in English, an oxymoron of oxymorons if there is one, my reading friend, you must eat to survive. Agriculture played / plays a crucial role in this survival of humanity which over time became an almost exponential growth in population which

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3 things you should know about acidification, gravitational waves, and humanoids

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

For the September edition, our experts wrote about why ocean acidification is posing problems for shellfish, how researchers used gravitational waves to observe a black hole and neutron star orbiting each other and merging, and what the future could look like — with humanoids in our midst.

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