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Greetings, my reading friend. How are you this week? May I offer you the caption of the photographs you just saw, my reading… Err, why the puzzled look? Please do not tell me that the names Heath Robinson and / or “Rube” Goldberg do not ring a bell. It is too early in the day for such a shocking revelation. Sigh… What do children learn in school these days? You do realise that, by forcing me to explain who William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) and Reuben Garrett Lucius “Rube” Goldberg (1883-1970)

Yours truly would like to begin this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee with an apology. Contrary to the gentlepersons agreement agreed to many moons ago, I did not include an agricultural topic among those published in April 2022 in said blog / bulletin / thingee. I hereby remedy this failure on my part with what follows. Please rest assured that the what follows in question is actually quite interesting. Really. Edwin Delevan Tillson was born in March 1825, in Normandale, Upper Canada

What happens when art meets science…and how do you best display works from prominent, Canadian artists at the CSTM?

As a blind/low vision child, two things seemed just out of reach for Samantha Moore: history and art.

In his second article, Ingenium's Electronic Technologist Jonathan Cousineau explains how he created a better, more portable version of a laser harp.

If a harp had no strings, could it make a sound? Ingenium's Electronics Technologist Jonathan Cousineau embarked on a quest to find out.

Artifacts from a Lindsay, Ontario job shop give us a glimpse into what a day in the life of this family-run print shop may have been like.

How do you create a virtual web-based museum exhibition for visitors with vision impairments? Read about the recommendations and inclusive solutions Carla Ayukawa, a curatorial studies student, learned through her consultations with the visitor group.

As the 2020-2021 Garth Wilson Fellow, Victoria Hawco provided design input on an international database of acoustical objects with Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation.