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Summer Camps 2025

Campers take off on a full flight of activities artfully balanced between music and aviation.

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Journey through the tumultuous era that defined global geopolitics for just over half a century. 

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DateJan 11, 2025 - Jan 26, 2025
TimeSaturdays and Sundays only from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
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DateOct 7, 2023 - Jun 2, 2025
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The Cold War

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Eyes on the Skies: Managing Air Traffic in Canada

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Health in Space: Daring to Explore

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Lockheed CC-130E Hercules

Artifact no.: 2016.0005

Lockheed CC-130E Hercules

A heavy-duty transport aircraft designed by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation for the United States Air Force (USAF) in the early 1950s.

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3 things you should know about antlers, what you should be flushing down the toilet, and electron rain

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Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Dec 3, 2024
For the December edition, explore what antlers can tell us about Santa's reindeer, what you shouldn't be flushing down your toilets this holiday season, and how lightning on earth can cause electron rain in space.
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3 things you should know about naming new animal species, the secrets hiding in lunar shadows, and possible new beneficial uses for spices

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Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Nov 1, 2024
Meet Michelle Campbell Mekarski, Cassandra Marion, and Renée-Claude Goulet. They are Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert scientific advice on key subjects relating to the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
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“Worth Defending” – A brief look at the 1954 advertising campaign of a major Canadian aircraft manufacturing firm, Canadair Limited of Montréal, Québec, part 4

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Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 1, 2024
Good morning, my reading friend, and welcome aboard. The advertisement for the advertising campaign of the aircraft manufacturer Canadair Limited of Montréal, Québec, with which we begin the 3rd, err, the 4th and final part of this article, appeared in July 1954 in Canadian and Québec daily
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Located on a former military air base just five kilometers from the Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum focuses on aviation in Canada within an international context – from its beginnings in 1909 to today.
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