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Ingenium
FormerlyCanada Science and Technology Museum Corporation
Company typeCrown corporation
Founded1967; 57 years ago (1967)
Headquarters
Ottawa, Ontario
,
Canada
OwnerGovernment of Canada
Divisions
Websitewww.ingeniumcanada.org

Ingenium, formerly the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation, is a Canadian Crown corporation responsible for overseeing national museums related to science and technology. The name is based off the Latin root of the word ingenuity.[1]

The corporation oversees the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. The organization is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.[2]

The corporation's museums are associated with the Canadian Museum Association, the Virtual Museum of Canada and the Canadian Heritage Information Network. Ingenium has an open documents portal[3] where the corporation shares working documents and corporate plans. It also maintains an open data portal.

Collections Conservation Centre

In 2016, the Government of Canada announced funding to build a $150 million Collections Conservation Centre. The state-of-the-art facility is designed to protect and showcase Canada's national science and technology collection of 85,000 artifacts and nearly two million 2D artifacts.[4]

Construction started in 2017. The completed building is 36,000 m² and almost 10 stories high. The library, archives, conservation labs, workshops and staff will move in over 2019 and early 2020, with the artifact move expected to last through 2021.[5]

History

Ingenium was established through an act of parliament (the Museums Act) on July 1, 1990 and is governed by a board of trustees headed by a president and chief executive officer. The museum's reconstruction, "digital strategy" and its change of name were documented in the TVOntario film "How to build a museum for the 21st century", broadcast in December 2018.[6]

Since 2007, the Ingenium is supported by the Ingenium Foundation. The foundation achieved official charity status on April 1, 2008.[7]

In 2014, the Canada Science and Technology Museum was forced to close because of toxic mould pollution.[8] Three years into the renovation, in 2017, the three museums under the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation, the Museum's CEO Alex Benay announced the rebranding of the network to Ingenium.[9]

As of September 2018, the Ingenium's Science and Technology Museum stopped collecting artifacts for the foreseeable future.[10]

Exhibits

Exhibits are housed in the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum and the Canada Science and Technology Museum, all located across Ottawa, Ontario. Shared, the three museums under the corporation host twenty permanent exhibitions:

  • Artifact Alley - Artifact Alley is the main hall of the Canada Science and Technology Museum. The hall displays more than 700 artifacts, some of which are interactive.[11]
  • Canola! Seeds of Innovation - created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of Canola in collaboration with the Canola Initiative National Advisory Committee (CINAC)[12]
  • Crazy Kitchen + - the oldest exhibition in the collection, it dates back to 1967 when the Canada Science and Technology Museum opened to display optical illusions
  • Discovery Park - Outdoor Exhibition - an exhibition on renewable energy and technologies
  • Engines: Power to Fly - showcases the museums' collection of airplane engines
  • Food Preservation: The Science You Eat - explores the science of food preservation
  • From Earth to Us - the exhibition explores how natural resources are transformed
  • Hidden Worlds - a display of the technologies that help humanity discover our world like microscopes and telescopes
  • Life in Orbit: The International Space Station - developed with the Canadian Space Agency. Visitors learn about life in space
  • Main Exhibition Hall - the main hall of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum
  • Medical Sensations - explores the world of medical innovation and technology in Canada
  • Sound by Design - showcases the changes in sound technology that have occurred in the last 150 years
  • Steam: A World in Motion - an exhibition about steam transportation and how it ruled Canada from 1900-1960
  • Technology in our Lives - explores the relationship between household technologies and Canadians since the Second World War. It also features a tiny house
  • Tractors - display of tractor technologies over the last 100 years
  • Wearable Tech - explores technologies that are designed for the human body since the 1800s
  • ZOOOM - Children's Innovation Zone - a hands on children's exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum
  • Into the Great Outdoors - discovers the technologies used by Canadians to explore the outdoors
  • Canada in Space - the newest permanent exhibition at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum about Canada's achievements in space
  • Health in Space: Daring to Explore - talks about the works Canadians have done to improve understanding of health in space

Each museum also hosts temporary exhibitions.

References

  1. ^ Innovation, Ingenium-Canada’s Museums of Science and. "Ingenium launched as a new national brand to preserve and share Canada's story of scientific and technological heritage". www.newswire.ca. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  2. ^ "Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation". Retrieved 2008-10-31.
  3. ^ "About | Ingenium". ingeniumcanada.org. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  4. ^ "Ingenium Canada".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "New Collections Conservation Centre will help protect our country's science and technology heritage for generations to come".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ https://tvo.org/article/current-affairs/how-to-build-a-museum-for-the-21st-century
  7. ^ "How to build a museum for the 21st century". TVO.org. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  8. ^ "How to build a museum for the 21st century". TVO.org. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  9. ^ "Ingenium launched as a new national brand to preserve and share Canada's story of scientific and technological heritage | Ingenium". ingeniumcanada.org. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  10. ^ September 12, Tom Spears Updated; 2018 (2018-09-12). "Science and Tech Museum "suspends" collecting artifacts to save space | Ottawa Citizen". Retrieved 2019-04-06. {{cite web}}: |last2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "Artifact Alley | Ingenium". ingeniumcanada.org. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  12. ^ "Canola! Seeds of Innovation | Ingenium". ingeniumcanada.org. Retrieved 2019-04-06.


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