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Sophie working with a series of toaster artifacts placed on a worktable.
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A Toast to the Collection: The History of Toasters in Canada

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Sophie Nakashima
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 27, 2022
Pictured is a tightly-framed photograph of an Alleles prosthetic leg cover, as displayed in the Wearable Tech exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. The prosthetic cover's shape resembles the shape of a human leg, from knee down to ankle, but its appearance is highly stylized. It is made of a textured pink plastic, with a detailed black pattern that extends from top to bottom.
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Representing accessibility in the Ingenium collection

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Carlile Sea
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Aug 4, 2020
An Ingenium conservator shares a glimpse into life with dyslexia, struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, and how disability impacts their view of the collection (Post 3/3).
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The dyslexic view: Working from home during COVID-19

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Carlile Sea
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jul 28, 2020
An Ingenium conservator shares a glimpse into life with dyslexia, struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, and how disability impacts their view of the collection (Post 2/3).
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Living with dyslexia during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Carlile Sea
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jul 22, 2020
An Ingenium conservator shares a glimpse into life with dyslexia, struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, and how disability impacts their view of the collection (Post 1/3).
A sign in front of the barricaded museum buildings reads: “MUSEUM CLOSED…Access beyond this point is restricted to on-duty essential personnel only.”
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Curating Under Quarantine: Ingenium curators launch a new, digital initiative

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Molly McCullough
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Apr 17, 2020
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the curators at Ingenium have launched a new, digital initiative called “Curating Under Quarantine.”
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Field Notes: Mass Spectrometry at the University of Manitoba

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David Pantalony, PhD
Ingenium: Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Oct 8, 2019
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
Cariole collected by Marius Barbeau in 1936, Staint-Pascale-de Kamouraska (now Saint Pascal). Ingenium Museums, artifact No. 1967.0197.
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Recovering the lost artifacts of ethnologist Marius Barbeau

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Denise Steeves
Aug 21, 2019
You might not imagine that volunteer work at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum would involve unravelling a mystery. But in truth, it can!
The Goss press in its new home
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Mammoth artifact finds a new home in the Collections Conservation Centre

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Melissa Gruber
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 29, 2019
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.

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