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A group of researchers search for an Avro Arrow model on Lake Ontario

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Conservator works on an airplane

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A research fellow with a computer memory core

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Researchers examine a blueprint in the archival collection

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Where Knowledge and Creativity Collide

The Ingenium Research Institute invites Canadians to change how they think about science and technology by cultivating a better understanding of the material culture of our past, present, and future. We explore the many ways that science and technology are embedded in society, culture, and history. Through bold engagement and worldwide collaborations, the Institute is the heart of discovery and innovation, engaging researchers, educators, and the public in new and creative ways.

The Institute consists of:

  • A fellowship program and practicums for university and college students
  • Collaborative spaces to put research into practice 
  • An artifact examination room for hands-on research, symposia, and seminars
  • Library and archives 
  • Extensive online collection
  • Opportunities to engage with visitors to our three museums

Research Strategy and Brochure

Our Research Strategy and the informational brochure are available as PDF downloads:

Research Strategy PDF
Research Strategy 2019 - PDF

Informational Brochure PDF
Informational Brochure 2019 -PDF

Research values

WHAT ARE OUR RESEARCH VALUES?

  • Engagement
  • Inclusiveness
  • Access
  • Openness
  • Excellence in collecting
  • Accuracy
  • Stewardship

what do we offer

What do we have to offer?

  • Expertise
  • National collections
  • Data
  • State-of-the-art digital labs
  • Access to the public
  • Cross-appointments

what do we research

What do we research?

  • Material culture and history of science and technology
  • Museum audiences
  • Science in museums
  • Citizen science
  • Digital humanities
  • Digital heritage
  • People and collections
  • Collection risk management
  • Culture of innovation
  • Data visualization
  • Women in STEAM
  • Indigenous ways of knowing
  • Conservation and restoration

welcome

Who do we welcome?

  • Students
  • Researchers
  • Scholars
  • Research Institutions
  • Fellows
  • Interns
  • Postdocs
  • Artists-in-Residence
  • Experimenters
  • Ingenium staff

Stories from our Collections

Read more stories on the Ingenium Channel

A promoter of Sure Food, the food chemist James Pearson (right), at the facility of Wentworth Canning Company Limited of Hamilton, Ontario. Anon., “La viande, synthétique, produit canadien, pourrait sauver de la famine les peuples affamés d’Europe.” Photo-Journal, 5 February 1948, 3.

“It smells like meat. It even looks like meat.” The long forgotten tale of a synthetic meat / meat substitute / meat analogue / meat alternative / imitation meat sometimes called Sure Food

Greetings, my reading friend. Yours truly has a question for you. Are you a foody / foodie, in other...
Black and white photograph of 6 uniformed Black porters standing in a line in front of a train. Some porters are smiling and looking at each other.

The Face of the Rails: Black Porters in Canada

Black porters were integral to the day-to-day operations of Canadian railways from the late 19th to...
The Junkers Ju 52 bushplane registered as CF-ARM of Canadian Airways Limited of Montréal, Québec, Manuan Lake, Québec, August or September 1940. CASM, 13469.

Old bushplanes never die, they just fade away: A few lines, all right, many lines on the remarkable career of a Junkers Ju 52 “flying box car” named CF-ARM, part 3

Welcome back, my reading friend, and profuse apologies. Yours truly remembers only too well my...

For more information on the Ingenium Research Institute, please contact:

Ingenium
P.O. Box 9724, Station T
Ottawa, Ontario K1G 5A3
CANADA

IRI@IngeniumCanada.org