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A large, green industrial loom that has a number of cranks and wheels.

Collection Development

Untangling the knot: A brief history of the Canadian textile industry

Kateryna Tonkykh

Guest writer, Carleton University

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.

A view of the solid-looking, wooden steering wheel, inside the pilot house from the SS Prince Edward Island.

Collection Development

Canada’s marine transportation artifacts will be better preserved in the Collections Conservation Centre

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

Cariole collected by Marius Barbeau in 1936, Staint-Pascale-de Kamouraska (now Saint Pascal). Ingenium Museums, artifact No. 1967.0197.

Recovering the lost artifacts of ethnologist Marius Barbeau

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

An infographic with four feature images of bicycles and other artifacts from the Shields collection.

Collection Development

Ingenium's big move: Packing Canada's largest bicycle collection

Camas Clowater-Eriksson

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

The Goss press in its new home

Collection Development

Mammoth artifact finds a new home in the Collections Conservation Centre

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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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A peek inside the mind of a collector

Michel Labrecque

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Technology

A biochemist, avid cross-country skier, and former science budget analyst speaks on the joys of collecting, the lessons learned, and the importance of preserving material culture.

A shiny Emmy award sits on a blue table.

Social Science & Culture

Behind the scenes: Celebrity artifacts

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Ingenium’s collection includes a lot of intriguing artifacts — and some of them even have star power!

Museum holds rare kite collection

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A visit to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum typically conjures up images of imposing planes and helicopters — not kites. But the museum actually holds an impressive collection of rare kites in storage. Read more about the hidden collection, and watch a short video where museum curator Rénald Fortier explains why the kites are not on public display.

The Petrovic Collection

Social Science & Culture

Award profile: Finding cultural connections through our shared mathematical heritage

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Petrovic Collection at the Canada Science and Technology Museum is a collection of over 130 mathematical instruments from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. These instruments came to the museum in 1980 from Dr. George Petrovic, a Serbian-born architect who collected them in order to document the connections between mathematical practice and architecture in the eastern Mediterranean regions, as well as countries that were once part of the Ottoman Empire. The collection is now at the centre

A nineteenth-century coach decorated with gold leaf and the Royal Coat of Arms

Industrial Transfers and the Art of Decalcomania: Collection Profile

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

Industrial transfers were a form of decal commonly used in Canada, and around the world, replacing the expensive method of hand painting coats of arms, trademarks, signs, ornaments, letters and numbers on railway equipment, ships and industrial machinery.

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