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A wide shot of a gallery inside the Lindt Home of Chocolate, showing white walls, white marble floors and a massive chocolate fountain. A few people are standing and sitting around the fountain, looking up at it.

Lindt opens the world’s largest chocolate museum

A group of teenagers and one coordinator gather in a circle to sort out their ideas and problem solve. Behind them is a showcase of the different kinds of bikes there have been through time.

Program gives youth STEAM to explore new fields

Sports & Gaming

NHL's Black History Month mobile museum in Ottawa

Museum of Fear and Wonder

Social Science & Culture

A small, Alberta museum offers up unusual insights into human nature

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Two brothers have converted a typical, Alberta farmhouse—located near Calgary—into the Museum of Fear and Wonder. This unorthodox museum is a reminder that things are not always what they seem, that the world is much more interesting and complex than we realize. Read more about the Museum of Fear and Wonder in this feature article.

Social Science & Culture

Egypt plans a GEM of a museum

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Construction is well underway for a new museum in Egypt – scheduled to open in 2019. The Grand Egyptian Museum—or GEM—will house 100,000 artifacts, including the complete collection of Tutankhamun's tomb. Museum officials hope it will help boost the country’s tourism. Read the full article and watch a short video depicting the restoration of artifacts and the museum’s construction.

Social Science & Culture

Museum of Candy to explore the evolution of sweets

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Talk about a sweet idea – in early 2019, bite into New York's new Candy Museum. The museum’s 15 interactive rooms will include a highly Instagrammable candy cane runway, a candy-making factory, and the world’s largest gummy bear. The experience is sure to give visitors a sugar rush!

An image of Anne Frank

Engineering & Technology

Take a virtual reality tour of Anne Frank’s house

Lindsay Wolcott

You don’t need to travel all the way to Amsterdam to see the Anne Frank House. The museum recently launched a 25-minute virtual reality tour that takes you through the rooms—hidden behind an Amsterdam canal-side house—where Anne wrote her diary. Read the full article and watch a trailer for the virtual reality tour.

A biplane in front of the museum

Looking back: Canada’s Aviation and Space Museum celebrates the building’s 30-year history

Lindsay Wolcott

This year, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the grand opening of its new building. Originally known as the National Aviation Museum, it actually opened in 1960 at Uplands Airport in Ottawa before the new building was opened on June 17, 1988. Three decades after that historic day, it’s time to look back at where it all began. The following series of photos offers a snapshot of the museum’s history while two long-time employees, Gail Lacombe and