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Advance tickets are required for all visitors, including members.

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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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A woman holding a child, each wearing a mask. In the background, you can see museum exhibitions in soft focus.

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

Sky Stuff: Zoom to the Moon

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Oct 2, 2021 - Oct 31, 2021

Various days and times, see description

A small boy wearing a homemade jetpack and astronaut's helmet sits on top of a grey couch, with his arms outstretched. A cartoon-style illustration of a planet and stars decorate the wall behind him, and there are clouds in the foreground.

Sky Stuff: Poppy Treasures

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Nov 1, 2021 - Nov 14, 2021

Various days and times, see description

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Sky Stuff: Candy from the Skies

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Nov 20, 2021 - Dec 19, 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

A tiny stylized yellow airplane flies across the sky, towards the right. It leaves a solid line behind it, which curves a few times through the space underneath. Below, realistic white clouds stand out against a dark blue background.

Canada in Space

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Exhibition Type

Permanent Exhibition

Text on image: Canada in Space

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

An advertisement for St. Lawrence Starch Company Limited, Port Credit, Ontario. Anon., “Advertisement – St. Lawrence Starch Company Limited.” Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, September 1941, 61.

Free, magnificent cards bearing drawings or photographs of Allied aircraft! Collect them all!

Rénald Fortier

Do you like gifts, my reading friend? And no, in this case, this is not a rhetorical question. This being said (typed?), I do not have the slightest intention of giving you anything. I simply wish to make use of an advertisement which appeared in the September 1941 issue of the Québec monthly

A spliced, three-part image features: a tray of oysters on the left, a graphical representation of a black hole and a neutron star orbiting each other in the centre, and a graphical image of a robot on the right.

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.

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Earth & Environment

Astronaut training mission lands in Labrador

Projects & Initiatives

Learn more about Astrophysics from Home
Astrophysics from Home: Monitoring a Variable Star

Learn more about the Legacy Series
The Legacy Series

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