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A spliced, horizontal image shows photos of a field of corn, the planet Mars, and an albatross flying over the water.

3 things you should know about fertilizer pollution, Mars, and the wandering albatross

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the October edition, they discuss how technology is helping with fertilizer pollution, your chance to see Mars, and how the wandering albatross is helping to prevent illegal fishing.

A close up a burger patties, a diagram of the sun during the solstices and equinoxes, and a satellite image of the Milne Ice Shelf

3 things you should know about cell-based meat, the Autumnal Equinox, and Canada’s last ice shelf

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the September edition, we discuss cell-based meat, the Autumnal Equinox, and the collapse of the last Canadian ice shelf.

A disassembled phone and a variety of parts and tools sit on a work bench.

My phone is blowing up! Dissecting technological artifacts for conservation treatment

Jessica Lafrance-Hwang

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Everyday artifacts like telephones are extraordinary when you dig deeper, as are most artifacts in the Ingenium collection! Check out this article to find out why and how conservators get an inside look at technological objects.

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

A small metal and glass prism and its old brown storage box sit on a white background. A Kodak color strip sits in front of the artifacts.

The science of artifact conservation: A prism and its leather case

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Dive into the process of a conservation treatment of a prism and its leather case.

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 gloved hand holds up a sample sheet of colourful, rubber bicycle tires from Italy, circa the 1930s.

The science of artifact preservation: Cool storage solutions

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Have you ever wondered how plastics and rubbers are preserved in a museum? Find out more about our new cool storage room at the Ingenium Centre.

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

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

Engineering & Technology

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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