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A cart, or gig, in the former Agriculture Museum at the Central Experimental Farm, circa 1937

Agriculture Museums on the Central Experimental Farm

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum (CAFM) officially opened on October 12, 1983, 40 years ago this month. The federal agriculture minister at the time, Eugene Whelan, was on hand to help launch it. He remarked that the Central Experimental Farm (CEF) already showed visitors the present and future of agriculture. With the museum, the site now also demonstrated the past. That day, CAFM opened two exhibitions, Haying in Canada—from Scythe to Forage Harvester and An Ontario Barn in the 1920s

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

A group of young citizen scientists test water quality.

Water Rangers: Putting water quality testing into the hands of citizen scientists

Cassidy Swanston

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Kat Kavanagh is the co-founder and executive director of Water Rangers, a citizen science project that brings education and water quality testing to the public. The Ingenium Channel sat down with her — over the phone, as she was away doing water testing at her cottage — to learn about Water Rangers and what it means to be a citizen scientist.

Rediscovering the Dudley bobsled

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

By William Knight and Bruce Dudley Some museum artifacts are mysterious. They lack provenance, or history, so we don’t know who made or used them, or why. Occasionally, however, objects acquire stories. Such is the case with a bobsled exhibited in Artifact Alley in the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. The bobsled, it turns out, has a rich history that connects winter fun, Ottawa’s transportation history, and the Great Depression—and memories of a beloved father. As lead curator of

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