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Disability is Diverse

Join us Dec. 3 for a talk and demo in honour of International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

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Mellow Mornings

Visit the museum during scheduled sessions that offer a low-sensory environment. 

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Meet Santa in the Caboose!

December 16, climb aboard a holiday-themed caboose and meet Santa! 

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Join us on December 1 at the Museum for exclusive discounts at the Ingenium boutique and family-friendly activities!

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Enjoy some old-fashioned entertainment this holiday season!

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Disability is Diverse: A Talk and Demo with Atif Rashid

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11:15 am - 12:30 pm
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DateDec 3, 2023
Time11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Two photos set against a white background with blue, red and yellow shapes. The first photo shows a person knelt on the floor with their hand in the air, the leg on the right is an red and silver prosthetic leg. The other photo is a headshot set against a yellow background.

Mellow Mornings

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8:30 am - 10:00 am
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DateDec 3, 2023
Time8:30 am - 10:00 am
Child laying on her back inside an exhibit tube while spinning an interactive to see pieces move.

Members Shopping Night

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DateDec 1, 2023
Time6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
A series of neatly wrapped gifts are arranged on a wooden table.
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Oh Crap! Rethinking Human Waste

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May 1, 2024 to Jan 6, 2025
Six different styles of toilets are on display, they are set against a lime green wall with wood and green cutouts resembling plumbing pipes.

From Earth to Us

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several house-shaped exhibition panels containing artifacts. Above are many different types of light bulps covering a large portion of ceiling in the From Earth to Us exhibition.

Crazy Kitchen +

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inside view of the Crazy Kitchen
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 The Bramah & Robinson Lighthouse in front of the museum

Artifact number: 1980.0768

Bramah & Robinson Lighthouse

Lighthouses are beacons that guide mariners through darkness, storms, and hazardous waters. This lighthouse once marked the first landfall for mariners travelling across the Atlantic Ocean. It was part of an extensive network of aids to navigation aids that helped make marine transportation and trade safe and efficient. After standing for 50 years at Cape Race, Canadian officials decided to replace it with a new and taller tower made of concrete. Since lighthouses were expensive to build and Canada had very a long coastline to cover, these officials chose to recycle the iron lighthouse. In 1907, they disassembled and moved the structure to Money Point on Cape North, Nova Scotia, to mark the entrance to the Gulf of St Lawrence. It stood there until 1980, when the government retired it from service and offered it to the Museum.

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From the Channel

The straw-gas powered McLaughlin D45 touring automobile with its gas bag, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Anon., “Is This Prophetic of Future? Auto Is Run With Straw Gas.” The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, 20 August 1918, 1.
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“Is This Prophetic of Future?”: University of Saskatchewan professor Robert Dawson MacLaurin and the billowing saga of straw gas, part 2

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Rénald Fortier
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Dec 1, 2023
You came back, my reading friend! I just knew that the billowing saga of straw gas would be a topic you could not stay away from. Shall we begin? You will remember that we closed the first part of this article of our amaaazing blog / bulletin / thingee in May 1917, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. As he
The illustration which brought the straw gas production project of University of Saskatchewan professor Robert Dawson MacLaurin to the attention of many. Anon., “Straw Gas Here: Novel Motor Fuel Used to Save Gasoline.” Visalia Morning Delta, 15 November 1918, 6.
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Agriculture

“Is This Prophetic of Future?”: University of Saskatchewan professor Robert Dawson MacLaurin and the billowing saga of straw gas, part 1

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Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 26, 2023
How would you feel about the idea of using a definition to launch this issue of our mind-blowing blog / bulletin / thingee? […] Thank you. And apologies for the tardy appearance of this text online. I overslept. By the way, Visalia is a city in the San Joaquin valley of California, located half way
Caricature by illustrator / graphic designer Jacques Gagnier promoting the weekly Québec radio game show Auto-Tram broadcasted by the radio station CKAC of Montréal, Québec. Jacques Gagnier, “–.” RadioMonde, 27 November 1948, 18.
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Auto-Tram, Pic et pic et colégram, Bour et bour et ratatam, Auto-Tram: Do you want to participate with me in the weekly Québec radio game show Auto-Tram?

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Rénald Fortier
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 19, 2023
Hello, my reading friend, you are late. A few more minutes and the door of the Saint-Stanislas parish hall in Montréal, Québec, would have been slammed in our faces. Yes, yes, the Saint-Stanislas parish hall mentioned in the 1972 song Fu Man Chu, a masterful work performed by the actor / author /
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