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A painting depicts a lake, with trees and mountains in the background.

Group of Seven artwork has a home amongst science and technology artifacts

A black-and-white image of team of young hockey players, posing on the ice with their hockey sticks.

Engineering & Technology

Ahead by a century: A snapshot of the hockey stick’s evolution since 1920

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Today marks 100 years since Canada won its first Olympic gold medal in hockey. At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, the Winnipeg Falcons — representing Canada — were awarded the gold medal on April 26. This was the first ice hockey tournament at an Olympic Games, and the only instance of it at a Summer Olympics. A hockey tournament was part of the inaugural Winter Olympics in 1924, and has been a part of every winter program since then. Founded in 1911, the Winnipeg Falcons hockey

A young girl in a pink outfit and matching hijab wears a set of butterfly wings as she poses in front of a Halloween display.

Volunteer Week: Inspiring kids to learn about science and technology

A young woman breastfeeds an infant on a modern-looking chair with an orange seat.

Creating the Sanctuary Public Breastfeeding Seat

Engineering & Technology

Museum visitors help to grow an artificial intelligence prototype

Two people sit on bikes in the middle of a museum display.

On a roll: Julie Leclair reflects on the development of Bike it!

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Julie Leclair, director of travelling exhibitions for Ingenium, recently worked with a team of international institutions to develop Bike it! — a travelling exhibition which tells the global story of the bicycle. Read Julie’s behind-the-scenes insights in this feature article published by TEO—an organization that supports international touring exhibitions.

A teenaged boy stands in front of a display of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous artwork at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

Behind the scenes at the Canada Science and Technology Museum

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A junior reporter for Macaroni Kid — an online publication that highlights family events and activities — has been reporting on Leonardo da Vinci – 500 Years of Genius at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. He recently spoke with museum staff member Carolyn Holland about what went in to making this temporary exhibition a success.

Bill Weiler, a member of the Bytown Railway Society, stains wood planks in preparation for the restoration of the 1924 daycoach.

Engineering & Technology

Volunteer Week: Bytown Railway Society preserves a passion for locomotives

A young girl sits at a table, holding up a craft project she made by hand.

Social Science & Culture

Youth connect with STEAM subjects through new, hands-on program

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A new program at the Canada Science and Technology Museum is getting youth excited about science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM). Launched last fall, the STEAM Effect Project provides a cost-free opportunity for youth (ages 12 to 17) who do not usually participate in after-school programs, and who don’t seem themselves represented in the fields of STEAM. “In our first session, the participants made propeller cars, they made bridges out of K’Nex and tested to see which would hold

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