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Conservation

Read behind-the-scenes articles about the Ingenium conservation team, and learn how they investigate what artifacts are made of, how they work, and how to preserve them for the future.

10 Stories:

Asbestos in mineral form. The mineral is greenish and white in colour and there are visible strands of asbestos fibres.

Artifacts and asbestos: Managing hazards at Ingenium

Briana Ippolito

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

When it comes to hazardous artifacts, we’re doing "asbestos" we can! Learn how the Conservation team for the Ingenium museums manages potentially dangerous objects.

Three Conservators wearing personal protective equipment , including Tyvek suits, googles, nitrile gloves and respirators.

Behind the scenes of the Ingenium big move: Hazard mitigation of a print maker’s drawer

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

From mice nests and insects to lead ink, conservators deal with a lot of hazards to keep museum collections safe.

Two museum conservators wearing full-body Personal Protective Equipment stand side by side, holding a black aircraft control panel upright. The artifact is sitting on plastic sheeting on a table.

Inside Ingenium’s smallest collections storage room

Jacqueline Riddle

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Take a look inside Ingenium’s smallest collections storage room, where a special class of artifacts have recently been moved into their “forever home.”

A disassembled phone and a variety of parts and tools sit on a work bench.

My phone is blowing up! Dissecting technological artifacts for conservation treatment

Jessica Lafrance-Hwang

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Everyday artifacts like telephones are extraordinary when you dig deeper, as are most artifacts in the Ingenium collection! Check out this article to find out why and how conservators get an inside look at technological objects.

A small metal and glass prism and its old brown storage box sit on a white background. A Kodak color strip sits in front of the artifacts.

The science of artifact conservation: A prism and its leather case

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Dive into the process of a conservation treatment of a prism and its leather case.

Six small rulers from a drafting kit are presented on a white background.

The great imitator: Cellulose nitrate in the twentieth century

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Discover more about cellulose nitrate objects, and how Ingenium conservators work to identify these objects to prevent degradation.

A gloved hand holds up a sample sheet of colourful, rubber bicycle tires from Italy, circa the 1930s.

The science of artifact preservation: Cool storage solutions

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Have you ever wondered how plastics and rubbers are preserved in a museum? Find out more about our new cool storage room at the Ingenium Centre.

Erin Secord holds up an example of a hazardous artifact. Oil for a printing machine in a bag.

Industrial Technology

Behind the scenes: Conservators face unique task handling hazardous artifacts

An object is pulled up out of a lake by a crane mounted to a boat.

Building a legend: The quest to recover the Avro Arrow free-flight models (Part 1)

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Technology

The CF-105 Avro Arrow was the first and only supersonic interceptor aircraft designed and built in Canada. In February 1959, the abrupt cancellation of the program sent shockwaves through the Canadian aviation industry, resulting in thousands of lost jobs at Avro and other smaller firms. Many of the company’s brightest minds went on to work at NASA and British Aerospace, lending their talents to programs like Apollo and the Concorde. The cancellation of the program is still one of the most

Social Science & Culture

Behind the Scenes: Meet the mountmakers at the Canada Science and Technology Museum

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The new Canada Science and Technology Museum has more than 2,900 artifacts on display throughout its various galleries. Before the museum reopened its doors in November 2017, a small team worked tirelessly – for nearly a year – to design and create the mounts and interfaces for all objects on display. The Channel sat down with three members of the team to talk about how they work their behind-the-scenes mountmaking magic. Names: Kenn Bingley, Giuseppe Crupi, and Derek Brousseau What does your

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