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A catapult built out of K'Nex

Engineering & Technology

3, 2, 1, GO: An Exploratek story

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Every time a museum visitor walks into Exploratek, they are presented with a challenge. Can you build something to launch a small object across a room?

Three children designing and building their own cardboard games

Cardboard Box-ing Day!

Catherine Émond

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

This Boxing Day, you might find yourself surrounded by the perfect inspiration for crafting, building, and tinkering…boxes!

A black-and-white photo of a man standing outside with his left hand on the seat of a wooden bicycle.

Hand-built bicycle tells a historical story of a colourful, Ontario teen

Camas Clowater-Eriksson

The Billings Estate National Historic Site is currently displaying a curious wooden bicycle. It was hand built in the late 1890s by a teenager named James Henry Blair, using materials scavenged off his father’s Gloucester farm. Artifacts at the Canada Science and Technology Museum give us a rare chance to explore the mindset of this young inventor as he puzzled through the process of how to build a bicycle with limited resources.

The cover of a recipe book, featuring a yellow box of Margene on a blue background.

Margarine: The complex story of a simple spread

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The production of cheap margarine was a boon to poorer consumers. Although some countries adopted it easily, other countries tried to eliminate it or limit its availability. In the 1870s, margarine began to spread (pardon the pun) to other countries.

Screenshot of redesigned Ingenium website showing large photo slider, the three museums, and a information bar at the top of the page indicating that the website is under maintenance

From four to one: The user-centric redesign of Ingenium’s websites

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

“Museums in a Digital World” certainly describes Ingenium’s trio of museums in Ottawa, which include the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. It also happened to be the overarching theme for the 46th annual Conference of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology (CIMUSET), hosted by Ingenium. This annual event facilitates the exchange of ideas as they relate to museums

A mother and daughter weaving a carpet.

Unseen and unrecognized: Women’s key role in the history of computer memories

Ghazaleh Jerban

Guest writer, Ingenium-University of Ottawa Fellowship in Gender, Science and Technology.

In 2017, I had the honour of travelling to Iran — the country that's world famous for its hand-woven carpets — to study women’s traditional practises of Persian carpet weaving.

An object is pulled up out of a lake by a crane mounted to a boat.

Building a legend: The quest to recover the Avro Arrow free-flight models (Part 1)

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Technology

The CF-105 Avro Arrow was the first and only supersonic interceptor aircraft designed and built in Canada. In February 1959, the abrupt cancellation of the program sent shockwaves through the Canadian aviation industry, resulting in thousands of lost jobs at Avro and other smaller firms. Many of the company’s brightest minds went on to work at NASA and British Aerospace, lending their talents to programs like Apollo and the Concorde. The cancellation of the program is still one of the most

A scientist at the Photo Zenith Transit Building (PZT), about 1963.

Engineering & Technology

The Dominion Observatory's Earth Physics and Time Keeping Functions, part 4

Associate Fellow, University of King's College and Research Associate, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

The Dominion Observatory's Earth Physics and Time Keeping Functions, part 4 by Randall Brooks Earth Physics The Dominion Observatory had another mandate — rather than looking up from the Observatory dome, some staff went to the basement to study gravity and seismic activity. The Observatory became part of a growing worldwide network of centres with seismographs to detect earthquakes and to combine the information to determine the location of the seismic activity. The Museum has a couple of early

The Dominion Observatory

The Dominion Observatory's Many Functions, part 3

Associate Fellow, University of King's College and Research Associate, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

Canoes hover around a beach shore in Bella Bella, British Columbia during the Qatuwas in 2014

An Indigenous canoe video series marks a new wave of cultural revitalization

Through a new online video series, Frank Brown is highlighting how Indigenous youth are reconnecting with the traditional, ocean-going canoe. Brown is the executive producer of Glwa – the ocean-going canoe, a series of 13 short videos that showcase the widespread impact of the canoe and the revival of its practice with maritime Indigenous culture today.

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