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In a living room with a straight-on view of the Prime Minister of Canada on a television.

Collection Development

Share your experiences: Science and tech in your life during COVID-19

Molly McCullough

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The role of science has become more public during the pandemic.

Man playing a blue electric guitar in front of a mic and keyboard.

Collection Development

How to best support others during a pandemic

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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.

A checkout counter at a pharmacy; several red plastic boxes with a pink notice indicate that customers should not move the barrier in order to protect the safety of the staff, and a plexiglass sheet is suspended to separate customers and check out staff.

Collection Development

Looking ahead to the historical significance of COVID-19 objects

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

A black-and-white photograph shows stone brick buildings on a riverbank.

Collection Development

Blowing things up and knitting stockings: The enterprising DuPont company

Kateryna Tonkykh

Guest writer, Carleton University

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 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.

Find out what this is !

Collection Development

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!

Main camera used by Karsh

Lights! Camera! Personality! The Karsh of Ottawa Collection Profile

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

In 1997 Jerry Fielder contacted the then-director of the Collection and Research Division of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Geoff Rider, with an offer of a donation. Each year the Museum receives several hundred offers from across Canada, yet Geoff immediately recognized that this was not an average proposal. Since 1979 Jerry had been a curator and an assistant to prominent Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh.

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

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