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An orange circle at the center represents being together in a spirit of reconciliation. The orange represents truth-telling and healing. An orange narwhal on the lower left of the circle represents the Inuit. An orange eagle at the top of the circle represents the First Nations. A beaded flower on the right side of the circle represents Metis peoples. White stars at the top of the circle represent the children who never made it home from residential schools. Orange smoke encloses the bottom of the circle.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2022

A glacier flows through a mountain range of snow-capped mountains on Bylot Island, Northern Canada. A vivid, nearly cloudless blue sky is bright in the background.

Curiosity on Stage

Join us October 6, for an engaging talk in celebration of International Geodiversity Day!

A house painted onto a wall with maroon and orange paint, on the roof there's a sign that read's "Exploratek", the doors to the space are blue and white.

Exploratek is Back!

Use your creativity and design skills to complete daily ingenuity challenges in our tinker lab.

View of the front and side of a locomotive, on the front reads the number "3100" and on the side there is a burgundy stripe that runs down the middle of it.

STEAM: A World in Motion

Transport yourself back to a time when steam ship and locomotive transportation reigned supreme in Canada!

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One Membership, Three Museums

An Ingenium membership opens the door to discovery at all three of Canada’s museums of science and innovation!

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Advanced ticketing is strongly recommended.

To ensure a safe and enjoyable visit for our visitors and staff, masks are not mandatory but recommended.

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Events

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2022

Times

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Sep 30, 2022

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Saturday Test Drives with EV Experience

Times

9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Location

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Oct 1, 2022

9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Two adults standing outside next to a green tent and table, on the tent and table it reads "ev experience, ev/vé." In front of the tent there's a black car and in the background there is a brown brick building.

Curiosity on Stage- Celebrating Geodiversity: The Critical Foundation for Diverse Ecosystems on a Changing Planet

Location

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Oct 6, 2022

6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (Doors open at 5:30 p.m.; Program commences at 6 p.m.; Meet the Presenters at the post-event reception 8:30 – 9 p.m.)

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Collection Highlights

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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