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A close-up view of the latch of an old, wooden, graffiti-marked door.

Mining and Metallurgy

A door to the past: Inscriptions offer a glimpse into Canada’s mining history

A tiny bottle of water is held in two purple-gloved hands.

Collection Development

Messages in a bottle: Ancient water in the Ingenium collection

A photo of the finished and freshly painted model of the Curtiss engine

Behind the scenes: 3D printing Canada's aviation history

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.

Artifacts spark creativity during COVID-19 lockdown

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Collection Development

A peek inside the mind of a collector

microdensitometer

A space-age microscope for reading the stars

David Pantalony, PhD

Ingenium: Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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.

Road Transportation

Honouring an innovator who gave others the “gift of freedom”

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

The Avro Arrow: Recovering a relic

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Last summer, a precious artifact — believed to be an early test model used in the Avro Arrow jet fighter program — was recovered from the bottom of Lake Ontario. Covered in zebra mussels from its years spent under the water, the artifact’s preservation requires enormous amounts of painstaking work from highly-trained conservators. Read about the recovery effort and the ongoing efforts to restore this artifact — which holds a special place in Canadian aviation history.

David Pantalony

Museum holds vaccine linked to one of humanity’s deadliest plagues

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Canada Science and Technology museum recently discovered an important piece of Canadian history in its archives — a small vial of the vaccine used to combat Spanish flu. Read the full article and watch a short video where curator David Pantalony speaks about the discovery.

6” Cooke & Sons refracting telescope

Social Science & Culture

Award profile: Putting a historic telescope back into focus

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Through the course of a project spanning nine years, two Ingenium conservators — Tony Missio and David Elliott — had the chance to work on the complete restoration and preservation of the 6” Cooke & Sons refracting telescope, bought by the Meteorological Service of Canada in 1882. The telescope was in service for over 100 years; it was donated to the museum by its last owner, the University of Toronto, in 1984. The telescope was dismantled and brought to the national collection storage. On