Skip to main content
Ingenium Logo

You are leaving IngeniumCanada.org

✖

This link leads to an external website that Ingenium does not control. Please read the third-party’s privacy policies before entering personal information or conducting a transaction on their site.

Have questions? Review our Privacy Statement

Vous quittez IngeniumCanada.org

✖

Ce lien mène à un site Web externe qu'Ingenium ne contrôle pas. Veuillez lire les politiques de confidentialité des tiers avant de partager des renseignements personnels ou d'effectuer une transaction sur leur site.

Questions? Consultez notre Énoncé de confidentialité

Ingenium The Channel

Langue

  • Français
Search Toggle

Menu des liens rapides

  • Ingenium Locations
  • Shop
  • Donate
  • Join
Menu

Main Navigation

  • Browse
    • Categories
    • Media Types
    • Boards
    • Featured Stories
  • About
    • About The Channel
    • Content Partners

Collections Conservation Centre

Filters

Museums

  • Article (10)
  • Blog (5)
  • Infographic (3)

Publication

Reading Duration

  • Short (14)
  • Medium (1)
18 Results:
A small metal and glass prism and its old brown storage box sit on a white background. A Kodak color strip sits in front of the artifacts.
7 m
Article
Conservation
Share

The science of artifact conservation: A prism and its leather case

Profile picture for user Caitlin Walsh
Caitlin Walsh
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jun 23, 2020
Dive into the process of a conservation treatment of a prism and its leather case.
Six small rulers from a drafting kit are presented on a white background.
5 m
Article
Conservation
Share

The great imitator: Cellulose nitrate in the twentieth century

Profile picture for user Caitlin Walsh
Caitlin Walsh
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jun 11, 2020
Discover more about cellulose nitrate objects, and how Ingenium conservators work to identify these objects to prevent degradation.
A view of the solid-looking, wooden steering wheel, inside the pilot house from the SS Prince Edward Island.
5 m
Article
Collection Development
Share

Canada’s marine transportation artifacts will be better preserved in the Collections Conservation Centre

Profile picture for user Sonia Mendes
Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Sep 26, 2019
An important piece of Canada’s marine transportation history has set sail for a new home in the Ingenium Collections Conservation Centre.
An infographic with four feature images of bicycles and other artifacts from the Shields collection.
3 m
Infographic
Collection Development
Share

Ingenium's big move: Packing Canada's largest bicycle collection

Profile picture for user Camas Clowater-Eriksson
Camas Clowater-Eriksson
Ingenium
Aug 20, 2019
VIEW INFOGRAPHIC It’s no secret that Ingenium is gearing up for a big move. As staff busy themselves with this mammoth task, let us take a moment to fully appreciate just one of the MANY collections being packed up for the journey to the new Collections Conservation Center. Did you know that the Canada Science and Technology Museum holds the largest collection related to the history of bicycle technology in Canada? The Shields Collection contains over 3,000 items from the early nineteenth
View of the CP 1201 locomotive in a concrete storage facility.
3 m
Article
Rail Transportation
Share

Railway enthusiasts invited to watch Canadian artifacts take to the tracks

Profile picture for user Sonia Mendes
Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jul 10, 2019
Moving artifacts that weigh hundreds of metric tons is no small feat, but Ingenium is on a roll. Later this month, three pieces of Canada’s storied rail history will take to the tracks during a public event that will see them move out of a storage warehouse and into their new home in Ingenium’s Collections Conservation Centre in Ottawa. The Bytown Railway Society — a volunteer-run organization which restores and operates steam rail equipment — will be a key player in the move.
An oil pump jack in a grassy field.
2 m
Article
Industrial Technology
Share

A symbol of Canada’s oil economy moves to Ingenium’s Collections Conservation Centre

Profile picture for user Sonia Mendes
Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jun 3, 2019
An artifact that symbolizes Canada’s long history of oil extraction will soon have a new home. Weighing in at nearly 16,000 kg, an oil pump jack is among the largest artifacts slated to move into the Collections Conservation Centre, a state-of-the-art facility that’s currently under construction next to the Canada Science and Technology Museum. “It was one of the first pieces in the collection,” says Anna Adamek, director of Ingenium’s curatorial division. She explains that the oil pump jack
The Goss press in its new home
5 m
Blog
Collection Development
Share

Mammoth artifact finds a new home in the Collections Conservation Centre

Profile picture for user Melissa Gruber
Melissa Gruber
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 29, 2019
Last week, a Goss printing press moved into Ingenium’s new Collections Conservation Centre in Ottawa. At 32 metric tons — the approximate equivalent of five African elephants — the press is one of the heaviest pieces in Canada’s national science and technology collection.
Erin Secord holds up an example of a hazardous artifact. Oil for a printing machine in a bag.
3 m
Article
Industrial Technology
Share

Behind the scenes: Conservators face unique task handling hazardous artifacts

Profile picture for user Connor Wilkie
Connor Wilkie
Ingenium
Apr 17, 2019
The exterior of the new Collections Conservation Centre, set against a snowy landscape.
5 m
Article
Conservation
Share

Ingenium’s Collections Conservation Centre: Bringing Canada’s Past into the Future

Profile picture for user Sonia Mendes
Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Mar 14, 2019
"Ingenium’s Collections Conservation Centre: Bringing Canada’s Past into the Future" was originally published in Muse Magazine — March/April 2019, a publication of the Canadian Museums Association. There’s a locomotive in Ottawa that has some amazing stories to tell. If trains could talk, the CP 1201 might enthrall you with the story of its construction in Montreal in 1944, and how it symbolized the end of the steam era in the Angus Shops of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). A workhorse during
Curator with mask
4 m
Blog
Conservation
Share

Behind the Scenes: #IngeniumBigMove

Profile picture for user Melissa Gruber
Melissa Gruber
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Mar 13, 2019
The Collections Conservation Centre — currently under construction next to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa — will be a lot of things: a state-of-the-art home for Canada’s national science and technology collection, a place for research and digital initiatives (both on site and online), and a workplace for Ingenium staff. Over the last few months, employees have been extremely busy. They’ve been going through the collection (currently spread across three different warehouses)
Page
  • Current page 1
  • Page 2

Footer

About The Channel

The Channel

Contact Us

Ingenium
P.O. Box 9724, Station T
Ottawa ON K1G 5A3
Canada

613-991-3044
1-866-442-4416
contact@IngeniumCanada.org
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

  • Channel

    • Channel Home
    • About the Channel
    • Content Partners

  • Visit

    • Online Resources for Science at Home
    • Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
    • Canada Aviation and Space Museum
    • Canada Science and Technology Museum
    • Ingenium Centre

  • Ingenium

    • Ingenium Home
    • About Ingenium
    • The Foundation

  • For Media

    • Newsroom
    • Awards

Connect with us

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest Ingenium news straight to your inbox!

Sign Up

Legal Bits

Ingenium Privacy Statement

© 2023 Ingenium

Symbol of the Government of Canada
  • Browse
    • Categories
    • Media Types
    • Boards
    • Featured Stories
  • About
    • About The Channel
    • Content Partners