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

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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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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: Animals on Board

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Aug 5, 2021 - Aug 30, 2021

Various days and times, see description

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Sky Stuff: Puzzling Planes

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Sep 7, 2021 - Sep 26, 2021

Various days and times, see description

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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

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

A pair of Canadian-made Avro Anson advanced training aircraft operated by No. 10 Service Flying Training School, Royal Canadian Air Force Station Dauphin, near Dauphin, Manitoba, 1943-44. CASM, 27297.

Not everyone knows that aircraft manufacturing can be a contact sport: Clarence Decatur Howe, Harvey Reginald MacMillan and the production of Avro Anson advanced training aircraft in Canada, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

I would like on this day to spend several minutes with you, reviewing the history of an aircraft, but not just any aircraft. The Avro Anson was one of the most important advanced training aircraft of the Second World War. Need I add that the stunning collection at the Canada Aviation and Space

The very first electric streetcar operated by Telegraphen-Bau-Anstalt von Siemens & Halske, Berlin, German Empire. Anon., “The first electric railway in Berlin.” Canadian Illustrated News, 9 July 1881, 21.

A streetcar named Straßenbahn Groß-Lichterfelde, or, How Telegraphen-Bau-Anstalt von Siemens & Halske put in service the world’s first electric streetcar

Rénald Fortier

Greetings, my… What is it, my reading friend? You seem strangely agitated, more than usual that is. The Lokalbahn Mödling-Hinterbrühl, you say (type?)? Well, it is true that some / many people have claimed / claim / will presumably claim that the Mödling-Hinterbrühl local railway in Vienna, Austro

The Canadian author and aviation pioneer Frank Henry Ellis (centre) with American aviation pioneers Frank Purdy Lahm (left) and Will D. “Billy” Parker, president of Early Birds of Aviation Incorporated, Los Angeles, California. Robert Francis, “Early Birds.” Sunday Sun Magazine, 28 July 1951, 5.

If we have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of a giant: Frank Henry Ellis and Canada’s Flying Heritage

Rénald Fortier

Hello and… And yes, my slightly anal reading friend, you are quite right. 28 July 1951 was a Saturday, not a Sunday, but what can yours truly tell you? Sunday Sun Magazine, a supplement of The Sunday Sun, the weekend edition of the daily newspaper The Vancouver Sun of Vancouver, British Columbia

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