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Asbestos in mineral form. The mineral is greenish and white in colour and there are visible strands of asbestos fibres.

Artifacts and asbestos: Managing hazards at Ingenium

Briana Ippolito

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

When it comes to hazardous artifacts, we’re doing "asbestos" we can! Learn how the Conservation team for the Ingenium museums manages potentially dangerous objects.

Three Conservators wearing personal protective equipment , including Tyvek suits, googles, nitrile gloves and respirators.

Behind the scenes of the Ingenium big move: Hazard mitigation of a print maker’s drawer

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

From mice nests and insects to lead ink, conservators deal with a lot of hazards to keep museum collections safe.

Two museum conservators wearing full-body Personal Protective Equipment stand side by side, holding a black aircraft control panel upright. The artifact is sitting on plastic sheeting on a table.

Inside Ingenium’s smallest collections storage room

Jacqueline Riddle

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Take a look inside Ingenium’s smallest collections storage room, where a special class of artifacts have recently been moved into their “forever home.”

Over-the-shoulder shot of curator and conservator peering under the hood of the Electronic Sackbut synthesizer. Internal wiring and circuitry behind keyboard is exposed.

Uncovering the secrets of the world’s first synthesizer (Part I)

Tom Everrett, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Canadian Hugh Le Caine invented the 1948 Electronic Sackbut — the world's earliest known electronic synthesizer. Now a team at Ingenium is bringing this revolutionary instrument back to life.

A photo of the finished and freshly painted model of the Curtiss engine

Behind the scenes: 3D printing Canada's aviation history

Erich Weidenhammer

Curator, University of Toronto Scientific Instrument Collection

Six small rulers from a drafting kit are presented on a white background.

The great imitator: Cellulose nitrate in the twentieth century

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Discover more about cellulose nitrate objects, and how Ingenium conservators work to identify these objects to prevent degradation.

A photo of cascara, a by-product of coffee.

Beyond the beans: the advantages of coffee by-products

An Ottawa-based coffee roaster is hoping to give consumers a wake-up call about coffee waste and by-products.

The exterior of the new Collections Conservation Centre, set against a snowy landscape.

Ingenium’s Collections Conservation Centre: Bringing Canada’s Past into the Future

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

"Ingenium’s Collections Conservation Centre: Bringing Canada’s Past into the Future" was originally published in Muse Magazine — March/April 2019, a publication of the Canadian Museums Association. There’s a locomotive in Ottawa that has some amazing stories to tell. If trains could talk, the CP 1201 might enthrall you with the story of its construction in Montreal in 1944, and how it symbolized the end of the steam era in the Angus Shops of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). A workhorse during

Curator with mask

Behind the Scenes: #IngeniumBigMove

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Collections Conservation Centre — currently under construction next to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa — will be a lot of things: a state-of-the-art home for Canada’s national science and technology collection, a place for research and digital initiatives (both on site and online), and a workplace for Ingenium staff. Over the last few months, employees have been extremely busy. They’ve been going through the collection (currently spread across three different warehouses)

An artist’s rendering of the Ingenium Collections Conservation Centre, currently under construction next to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa.

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Not your average warehouse: Ingenium’s new Collections Conservation Centre

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

Ingenium’s new Collections Conservation Centre will open in only a few months. This is a dream come true for those of us who have been caring for Canada’s national collection of scientific and technological artifacts for our entire careers, and have been waiting for this moment for over a decade.

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