Explorer

For some of us, knowing that family and friends are safe — and having the ability to self-isolate and work from home — means we have the privilege of experiencing COVID-19 as a source of stress, rather than as a crisis.

It is strange living through something that you know is historically significant.

When it comes to the history of Canada’s industrial textile manufacturing sector, you would hardly expect to find an amazing story of innovation, explosions, and high fashion.

A Carleton history student wrestles with a “green monstrosity” at the Canada Science and Technology Museum and learns about the history of the Canadian textile industry.

With the recent announcement that James Peebles had won the Nobel Prize in Physics, it is timely to revisit the history of the Physics Department at the University of Manitoba. In 2013, I visited the department to learn specifically about their program in mass spectrometry. On a broader level, my research and collecting touched on aspects of Peebles's rich undergraduate experience in the 1950s. It has been over one hundred years since British scientists developed methods to deflect ions (charged

An important piece of Canada’s marine transportation history has set sail for a new home in the Ingenium Collections Conservation Centre.

You might not imagine that volunteer work at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum would involve unravelling a mystery. But in truth, it can!

VIEW INFOGRAPHIC It’s no secret that Ingenium is gearing up for a big move. As staff busy themselves with this mammoth task, let us take a moment to fully appreciate just one of the MANY collections being packed up for the journey to the new Collections Conservation Center. Did you know that the Canada Science and Technology Museum holds the largest collection related to the history of bicycle technology in Canada? The Shields Collection contains over 3,000 items from the early nineteenth

Last week, a Goss printing press moved into Ingenium’s new Collections Conservation Centre in Ottawa. At 32 metric tons — the approximate equivalent of five African elephants — the press is one of the heaviest pieces in Canada’s national science and technology collection.