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Advance tickets are required for all visitors, including members.

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A Time to Remember

Veterans’ Week (November 5–11, 2021) offers a special time to reflect, remember, and appreciate the service of Canadians in the military. This includes Canadians throughout our nation’s history, as well as those who are still serving today.

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Sky Stuff Series

All systems go…register your little explorer for the Sky Stuff virtual activity series!

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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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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 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Thursday to Monday

11 Aviation Parkway, Ottawa, ON

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

Events

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Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Oct 1, 2021 - Oct 31, 2021

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A Time to Remember

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Nov 5, 2021 - Nov 11, 2021

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Sky Stuff: Zoom to the Moon

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Oct 2, 2021 - Oct 31, 2021

Various days and times, see description

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Exhibitions

Eyes on the Skies: Managing Air Traffic in Canada

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Exhibition Type

Permanent Exhibition

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Canada in Space

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Exhibition Type

Permanent Exhibition

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Main Exhibition Hall

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Exhibition Type

Permanent Exhibition

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Programs & Resources

Collection highlights

Educational Programs

Library and Archives

Collection Highlights

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.

From the Channel

A coastal reconnaissance Bristol Bolingbroke destined for the Royal Canadian Air Force being assembled at the Fairchild Aircraft Limited factory, Longueuil, Québec, 1941. Anon., “Les C.F. et la R.C.A.F.” Le Samedi, 18 October 1941, (c).

“We must get aircraft equipment and look after our coasts” – The Royal Canadian Air Force and the Bristol Bolingbroke coastal reconnaissance aircraft

Rénald Fortier

How would you like to read a fascinating text while sipping a glass of turnip juice, my reading friend? If so, you are in for a treat, if I may quote the vampire Eric Northman. I think. I hope. And yes, the topic in question is one of the aircraft types in the fabulous collection of the Canada

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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!

The prototype of the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter on display at the Canada Aviation Museum, Ottawa, circa 2001. CASM.

From pole to pole and horizon to horizon, the Twin Otter was, is and will be there: A very brief pontification on one of the best Canadian aircraft ever designed

Rénald Fortier

Greetings, my reading friend. Yours truly is happy to see that you wish to drink once again from the fountain of knowledge that our anarchic and overly chatty blog / bulletin / thingee sometimes constitutes. I will not tell you anything you did not already know by saying (typing?) that the supremely

Projects & Initiatives

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