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Cropped, 3D model of a diving suit against a black background. The right side of the suit is bulky and orange, with shiny silver bands on the limbs, and with a black, domed helmet. The left side is stylized with a series of blue, interlocking 3D mesh lines overlaying the body.

3D Digitization Improves Access to the Ingenium Collection

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

The Ingenium Digital Innovation Lab (DI Lab)—located in the Ingenium Centre—is a hub for exploring ways of improving access to its museum spaces, collections, and experiences for all Canadians.

A collage of the 5 winning LEGO creations for each category.

Building imagination: Ingenium members shine in 2021 LEGO® contest

Véronique Kenny

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Creativity and imagination are the building blocks for success — particularly when it comes to the Ingenium members-only LEGO® contest.

A young girl assembles waist-high wall out of small, brown cardboard "bricks."

Cardboard: Igniting imagination for all ages

Catherine Émond

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Here at Exploratek, we’ve been praising cardboard as the best material ever for a long time, and we’re far from the only ones!

Collage of Contest Winning LEGO® Creations

Imagining the future…one block at a time

André LaFlamme

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Ingenium received over 200 creative and complex LEGO® creations for our members-only contest.

Three children designing and building their own cardboard games

Cardboard Box-ing Day!

Catherine Émond

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

This Boxing Day, you might find yourself surrounded by the perfect inspiration for crafting, building, and tinkering…boxes!

Screenshot of redesigned Ingenium website showing large photo slider, the three museums, and a information bar at the top of the page indicating that the website is under maintenance

From four to one: The user-centric redesign of Ingenium’s websites

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

“Museums in a Digital World” certainly describes Ingenium’s trio of museums in Ottawa, which include the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. It also happened to be the overarching theme for the 46th annual Conference of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology (CIMUSET), hosted by Ingenium. This annual event facilitates the exchange of ideas as they relate to museums

A mother and daughter weaving a carpet.

Unseen and unrecognized: Women’s key role in the history of computer memories

Ghazaleh Jerban

Guest writer, Ingenium-University of Ottawa Fellowship in Gender, Science and Technology.

In 2017, I had the honour of travelling to Iran — the country that's world famous for its hand-woven carpets — to study women’s traditional practises of Persian carpet weaving.

Heinerth photographs the under surface of the sea ice near Bylot Island. Photo credit: Jill Heinerth

The veins of Mother Earth: Underwater cave exploration with Jill Heinerth

Cassidy Swanston

Canada Science and Technology Museum

As a child, Jill Heinerth dreamed of being an astronaut. As a Canadian girl growing up in the twentieth century, this option didn’t seem accessible to her. Instead of a career that blasted her far above the Earth’s surface, she forged her own path deep within the Earth. She discovered a place where she could still explore hidden worlds, floating weightlessly. Although water is the lifeblood of our planet, we somehow know more about the cosmos than we do about our Earth’s own underwater caves

Main camera used by Karsh

Lights! Camera! Personality! The Karsh of Ottawa Collection Profile

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

In 1997 Jerry Fielder contacted the then-director of the Collection and Research Division of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Geoff Rider, with an offer of a donation. Each year the Museum receives several hundred offers from across Canada, yet Geoff immediately recognized that this was not an average proposal. Since 1979 Jerry had been a curator and an assistant to prominent Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh.

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