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

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Maryam Soufisiavash
University of Alberta
Aug 4, 2023
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
Stethoscopes displayed in the permanent Medical Sensations exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
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Health & Wellness
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Curating sound culture: Exploring the history of the stethoscope

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Aliisa Qureshi
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 12, 2022
Few things say ‘doctor’ more than a stethoscope. Even in the modern medical field, which can be regarded as highly vision-based (imaging, scanning, observing), the stethoscope remains a powerful medical tool and an iconic symbol of past traditions. Above all, the stethoscope represents a deep and enduring relationship between medical practice and sound. During my time as a practicum student for Ingenium, I worked on developing a research profile of the museum’s stethoscope collection, focusing
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.
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Aviation
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Inside Ingenium’s smallest collections storage room

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Jacqueline Riddle
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Aug 26, 2021
Take a look inside Ingenium’s smallest collections storage room, where a special class of artifacts have recently been moved into their “forever home.”
A close-up view of the latch of an old, wooden, graffiti-marked door.
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Mining and Metallurgy
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A door to the past: Inscriptions offer a glimpse into Canada’s mining history

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Rebecca Dolgoy
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Apr 6, 2021
What can graffiti teach us about the past? A door that once stood inside an Ontario mine is covered in layers of inscriptions, detailing the thoughts of the miners who worked there.
A tiny bottle of water is held in two purple-gloved hands.
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Collection Development
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Messages in a bottle: Ancient water in the Ingenium collection

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Rebecca Dolgoy
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 25, 2020
One of the oldest museum artifacts in the world has been added to a world-class collection of science and technology at Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation.
A photo of the finished and freshly painted model of the Curtiss engine
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Behind the scenes: 3D printing Canada's aviation history

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Erich Weidenhammer
Curator, University of Toronto Scientific Instrument Collection
Jun 24, 2020
A collage of drawings and paintings for the Artistic Artifact competition. From left, clockwise: a drawing of a lighthouse, a drawing of a synthesizer, a drawing of a jet and ground crew, a drawing of a mercury light bulb, a drawing of a ship.
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Artifacts spark creativity during COVID-19 lockdown

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André LaFlamme
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jun 2, 2020
This spring, Ingenium members showed their true colours through an online art competition.
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A peek inside the mind of a collector

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Michel Labrecque
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Technology
Apr 25, 2019
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.
microdensitometer
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Space
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A space-age microscope for reading the stars

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David Pantalony, PhD
Ingenium: Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Mar 12, 2019
Each object we move to the new Collections Conservation Centre comes with many stories, connections, and interpretations. As a curator for physical sciences and medicine, I have the privilege of examining incredibly diverse objects in the national science and technology collection. This microdensitometer stands out for a number of reasons; first, it has an illustrious connection to Canadian and international astronomy. The microdensitometer featured here came to Ingenium from the David Dunlap
Elaine visits the Moving Stories exhibition, with daughter Jamie Wolfe Phillips, husband Jim Phillips, and daughter Emily Wolfe Phillips.
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Road Transportation
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Honouring an innovator who gave others the “gift of freedom”

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 19, 2018
Ottawa resident Elaine Wolfe was undoubtedly thinking about her late father, Clifford Wolfe, as she visited the Moving Stories exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum last week. The temporary exhibition – which showcases some rarely-seen artifacts from the museum’s transportation collection – includes Elaine’s 1988 Chevy Blazer, outfitted with an innovative wheelchair lift that was invented by her dad when she was a young adult. “Calling my first truck an artifact is making me
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