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Read behind-the-scenes stories about the development of the Ingenium Centre, a facility designed to protect and showcase Canada’s science and technology artifacts.

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Ingenium’s big move: Giant artifacts in Canada’s national collection

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Mar 4, 2019
INFOGRAPHIC Did you know that there are over 50 science and technology artifacts in the national collection that weigh more than an African elephant? Check out this infographic to see just a few of the biggest artifacts — which will soon be moving to Ingenium's new Collections Conservation Centre!
An artist’s rendering of the Ingenium Collections Conservation Centre, currently under construction next to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa.
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Not your average warehouse: Ingenium’s new Collections Conservation Centre

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Anna Adamek
Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation
Mar 1, 2019
Ingenium’s new Collections Conservation Centre will open in only a few months. This is a dream come true for those of us who have been caring for Canada’s national collection of scientific and technological artifacts for our entire careers, and have been waiting for this moment for over a decade.
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Behind the scenes: Preparing Ingenium's library and archives for a big move

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Adele Torrance
Ingenium
Feb 27, 2019
How do you move a library and archives? Very carefully. As Ingenium’s archivist, a big part of my role lately has been to prepare for a major move to the Collections Conservation Centre — scheduled for completion later this year. If you live in Ottawa, you may have noticed the construction site right next to the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Ingenium staff will soon begin moving with two museum collections into the new building. Among the collections to move are the library and archival
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Behind the scenes: Celebrity artifacts

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Melissa Gruber
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Feb 27, 2019
Ingenium’s collection includes a lot of intriguing artifacts — and some of them even have star power!
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Why we collect

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Sharon Babaian
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Feb 26, 2019
As Ingenium prepares to move the national science and technology collection into the new Collections Conservation Centre over the coming months, curator Sharon Babaian reflects on the purpose of collecting. As curators, we collect objects to document, preserve, and understand the past. The things made and used by people are physical evidence of human invention, activity, and need; they also reflect the societies, communities, and cultures that created and adopted them. At Ingenium – Canada’s
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Realizing a dream: The Collections Conservation Centre

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Fernand (Fern) Proulx
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Feb 26, 2019
Currently under construction in Ottawa, the Collections Conservation Centre is the future home for hundreds of thousands of nationally-significant science and technology artifacts. These objects represent Ingenium’s three museums — the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum — but they’re also emblematic of Canadian ingenuity and Canadians’ everyday experience. To reflect on this incredible milestone and what it means
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