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Stethoscopes displayed in the permanent Medical Sensations exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

Health & Wellness

Curating sound culture: Exploring the history of the stethoscope

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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.

Inside Ingenium’s smallest collections storage room

Jacqueline Riddle

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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.

Mining and Metallurgy

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

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

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

Erich Weidenhammer

Curator, University of Toronto Scientific Instrument Collection

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

André LaFlamme

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

This spring, Ingenium members showed their true colours through an online art competition.

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.

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

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