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The left-hand photo shows several square bins lined with clear plastic, full of bunches of purple grapes, with rows of grape vines visible in the background. The right-hand photo shows a cathode ray tube computer terminal and small keyboard. The computer has yellow plastic housing and black plastic frame. The keyboard is grey. To the right in this photo is a conservation photography colour correction card.

2 things you should know about how grape diversity could help save winemaking in Canada and how conservators use an x-ray fluorescence spectrometer to uncover and analyze the materials in the collection's artifacts

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet and Jacqueline Riddle. Renée-Claude is the Science Advisor at Ingenium’s Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, and Jacqueline is a Conservator at Ingenium. In November’s edition of this colourful monthly blog, Renée-Claude explains how climate change is affecting agriculture all over the world, including the growing of grapes and the making of wine, and Jacqueline describes how she and her colleagues use x-ray fluorescence spectrometer technology to discover which chemical

Three smiling children stand on a green lawn. On the far left is a young girl with short brown hair who wears a light pink dress. In the middle, a taller boy wears a scouting uniform. On the right, a young child wears a formal blue coat as well as a white hat, gloves, and purse.

Scouting and Guiding on Overseas RCAF Bases During the Cold War

Carleton University

The Cold War brought about many changes to family life. For military personnel who were part of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), the founding of NATO in 1949 meant opportunities for overseas tours in Europe for themselves and their families.

Celebrating Women’s History Month in Canada with Dr. Shohini Ghose, Quantum Physicist

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

October is Women’s History Month in Canada. It is a time to celebrate the women and girls from our past, and our present who are contributing to a better, more inclusive Canada. The theme of Women’s History Month this year is “Through Her Lens: Celebrating the Diversity of Women.” There are many accomplished women in Canada who deserve to be celebrated this month. One such prominent Canadian woman is Shohini Ghose, currently Professor of Physics and Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University

Map of the Caribbean with indicators highlighting the countries of Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.

‘It is all up to you!’ – The West Indian Domestic Scheme in Canada (1955–1967)

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

From 1955 to 1967, the West Indian Domestic Scheme brought more than 3,000 Caribbean women, mostly from Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, to perform domestic labour in Canada.

A cart, or gig, in the former Agriculture Museum at the Central Experimental Farm, circa 1937

Agriculture Museums on the Central Experimental Farm

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum (CAFM) officially opened on October 12, 1983, 40 years ago this month. The federal agriculture minister at the time, Eugene Whelan, was on hand to help launch it. He remarked that the Central Experimental Farm (CEF) already showed visitors the present and future of agriculture. With the museum, the site now also demonstrated the past. That day, CAFM opened two exhibitions, Haying in Canada—from Scythe to Forage Harvester and An Ontario Barn in the 1920s

Spliced image, from left to right: a concord plane against a blue cloudy sky, a brow in flight carrying a bun in its beak, a bowl of ice water and cut green beans being scooped by a collander

3 things you should know about whether we need scarecrows to scare crows, how to preserve your garden harvest using science, and whether supersonic air travel will return with a Concorde 2.0

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

This month’s three experts discuss whether we need scarecrows to scare crows, how to preserve your garden harvest using science, and whether supersonic transport airliners will return with a Concorde 2.0.

Cropped, 3D model of a diving suit against a black background. The right side of the suit is bulky and orange, with shiny silver bands on the limbs, and with a black, domed helmet. The left side is stylized with a series of blue, interlocking 3D mesh lines overlaying the body.

3D Digitization Improves Access to the Ingenium Collection

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

The Ingenium Digital Innovation Lab (DI Lab)—located in the Ingenium Centre—is a hub for exploring ways of improving access to its museum spaces, collections, and experiences for all Canadians.

A pair of bare metal ejection seats with no cushions or padding are mounted on a plywood base, placed beside a few cardboard boxes. Behind the seats, a camouflage-green helicopter is partially visible.

How a pair of ejection seats from the Avro CF-105 Arrow survived

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

When the Avro Arrow project was cancelled by the federal government in 1959, the six planes already constructed were to be completely destroyed. Fortunately, a pair of ejection seats survived. This is their story.

Table-top instrument featuring a small 10-key keyboard made of wood and ivory and ten cylindrical resonators made of brass. All are mounted on a wooden base.

Sounds of the Past and Insights for the Future: How Museum Artifacts Can Inspire Musical Creativity

Maryam Soufisiavash

University of Alberta

I joined Ingenium last Fall as the 2022-23 Research Fellow in Sound and Science, working with curators and international researchers on a database project called Sound and Science: a Database for Sources on the History of Acoustics. As a pianist, I have always had an interest in the study of sound; however, this project led me to re-evaluate, reconsider, and think more creatively about the acoustic elements of the different instruments I play and the different performance spaces I perform in

Two images spliced: On the left, different plant-based milk alternatives, on the right, an overhead view of the Spirit rover.

2 things - and more! - you should know about plant-based milk alternatives and weather on Mars

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

For this August edition, our experts explain how plant-based milk alternatives stack up to cow's milk, and share three interesting tidbits about weather on Mars!

Overhead shot of the reconstructed instrument with the control surface opened up, showing various wires and electronic modules located beneath.

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

Tom Everrett, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Seventy-five years ago, Canadian physicist Hugh Le Caine began work on a strange, new musical instrument with an equally strange name: the Electronic Sackbut. While you may not have heard of the Electronic Sackbut before, you’ve almost certainly heard of the ubiquitous musical instrument it pioneered: the synthesizer. This is part two of an ongoing Channel series that follows Ingenium’s reconstruction of the 1948 Electronic Sackbut, better known as the world’s first synthesizer. Today we’ll look

Left to right: solar panels placed high above low-lying green farm crops in a field; bubbles of various sizes rising in a yellow-green medium; and two tarantula feet magnified 40 times appear orange in colour against a navy-blue background.

3 Things you should know about using the same farmland for producing crops AND solar energy, museum conservators’ superhuman “vision,” and making french fries in space

For this July edition, we explain how future astronauts may be able to cook french fries in space, how technology gives museum conservators superhuman “vision,” and how the same farmland can be used to grow food crops and to “harvest” electricity from solar energy.

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