WHAT IS INGENIUM?
Ingenium celebrates the innovative spirit of Canadians by telling the stories of those who dared to think differently. Inspired by the power of ingenuity, Ingenium encompasses three national institutions: the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. These three museums are places where the past meets the future, with spaces where visitors can learn and explore, play and discover.
DIGITAL AND TRAVELLING PRODUCTS
Beyond the physical walls of its museums, Ingenium’s engaging digital content, outreach programs and travelling exhibitions serve to educate, entertain, and engage audiences across Canada and around the world.
Ingenium offers unique digital and social media platforms that put ingenuity in the spotlight for unforgettable and immediate experiences to inspire children, families, and scientists alike.
Mobile games: Ace Academy; Ace Academy: Black Flight; Ace Academy: Skies of Fury; Bee Odyssey; Space Frontiers: Dawn of Mars, StarBlox
13 travelling exhibitions – and more on the way! - including: Ace Academy: Flight Experience; Canola: A Story of Canadian Innovation; Cipher | Decipher; Climate Change is Here; Echoes in the Ice: Finding Franklin’s Ship; Game Changers; Health in Space: Daring to Explore; Iron Willed: Women in STEM; On the Trail of the Monarch Butterfly; Space to Spoon; Taste of Science; To what degree? Canada in a changing climate; Unmasking influenza; International Bicycle travelling exhibition.
THE NEW INGENIUM CENTRE
Ingenium continues to evolve — a new Ingenium centre is currently under construction, designed to protect priceless Canadian heritage artifacts for the benefit of many generations to come. More information on our new Ingenium centre can be found here.
THE CANADA AGRICULTURE AND FOOD MUSEUM
Quick facts:
- The Museum is the only working farm in the heart of a capital city
- Home to a large variety of animal breeds, including cattle, pigs, sheep, horses, poultry, goats, and rabbits!
- Year-long programming features include daily demonstrations with local produce and on-site animal care!
Located at Ottawa’s Central Experimental Farm, which traces its roots to 1886, the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum offers programs and exhibitions on Canada’s agricultural heritage, food literacy, and on the benefits and relationship of agricultural science and technology to Canadians’ everyday lives. It provides visitors with a unique opportunity to see diverse breeds of farm animals important to Canadian agriculture past and present, and to learn about the food they eat. In addition to breeds common to Canadian agriculture, such as Holstein dairy cows and Angus beef cows, the museum also has Canadienne dairy cows, Tamworth pigs, and Clydesdale horses. Many other breeds of dairy and beef cattle, pigs, sheep, horses, poultry, goats, and rabbits round out the collection.
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THE CANADA AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM
Quick facts:
- Home to the first and internationally renowned Canadarm
- The collection includes the only known remaining parts of the Avro Arrow
- Visitors can view the Museum’s 1909 Silver Dart – the aircraft that made the first powered flight in Canada!
The Canada Aviation and Space Museum is aptly located at Ottawa’s historic Rockcliffe Airport, which previously functioned as a former military air base. The museum takes visitors on a journey through Canada’s aviation and space history — from the early days of flight to the future of space exploration. Spanning 1909 to the present day, the museum focuses on aviation in Canada within an international context. As Canada’s contribution to aviation expanded to include aerospace technology, the museum’s collection and mandate grew to include space flight. The collection itself consists of more than 130 aircraft and artifacts (propellers, engines) from both civil and military service. The most extensive aviation collection in Canada, it is also considered one of the finest aviation museums in the world.
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THE CANADA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM
Quick facts:
- 11 permanent exhibitions
- Home of long-time visitor favourites, including the Crazy Kitchen and locomotives
- Interactive visitor experiences, including Exploratek maker studio and daily demonstration stage
The Canada Science and Technology Museum originally opened in 1967. Fifty years later, in 2017, the museum reopened its doors — following a full renewal — marking the start of a fresh, new chapter. Today, the museum combines what visitors loved about the previous incarnation — locomotives and the Crazy Kitchen — with 11 brand-new, interactive exhibitions. Museum guests are invited to discover, play, and experience how people have made Canada and continue to shape its future. As visitors walk through the exhibitions, visit the demonstration stage, or tinker in Exploratek, they will become a part of Canada’s story of science, technology, and innovation.
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Media Contact
Philippe Tremblay
Officer, Media Relations
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
ptremblay@IngeniumCanada.org
343-543-5337