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Safe and enjoyable!

Beginning December 1, visitors age 12 and older will be required to show proof of vaccination. Learn more.

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Virtual Field Trips

Experience Ingenium’s museums on a virtual field trip! Students can meet with museum educators from the comfort of their home or classroom.

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Cartoon-style garden landscape, focusing on the soil under the ground. Various colourful characters such as such as a mole, an earthworm, and compost smile to the camera, dressed as superheroes.

Soil Superheroes

Soil Superheroes provides visitors with an underground perspective on the importance of soil science and conservation.

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Thriving from Our Roots celebrates the Anishinàbe Algonquin language

Honouring Algonquin culture

Experience this Algonquin language installation, Nidòndàdizimin nidjìbikànàng: Thriving from Our Roots, a collaboration with Kitigan Zibi Anishinàbeg.

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Online Resources for Science at Home

Spark the imaginations of curious minds with these at-home activities!

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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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The museum is open! Advanced tickets are required

To ensure a safe and enjoyable visit for our visitors and staff, health and safety guidelines are in place across all our sites.

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Programs & Resources

Browse all Educational Programs offered at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Educational Programs

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Recipes

Browse the Healthy Kids Quest offering from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Healthy Kids Quest

Collection Highlights

John Deere 720 LP Tractor - Ingenium 1983.0360

John Deere 720 LP Tractor - Ingenium 1983.0360

Canada has a long and rich history of innovation in science and technology. The artifacts collected, preserved, and displayed in the three museums of Ingenium showcase this history. Each artifact tells a fascinating story of innovation and illustrates how science and technology have contributed to the transformation of Canada. Find out more about many of these artifacts here.

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From the Channel
A three-part, spliced image of a crate of cucumbers inside a greenhouse, an artist’s illustration of asteroids and spacecraft, and a digital blood glucose monitor and insulin needle.
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Agriculture

3 things you should know about artificial intelligence, planetary defence, and insulin

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Nov 8, 2021
For the November edition, they dive into how artificial intelligence can automate greenhouse operations, NASA’s upcoming asteroid defence mission, and why exactly insulin is so critical to our bodies.
An advertisement published by La traction et le matériel agraires Société anonyme for the American Beeman Junior garden tractor. Anon., “La traction et le matériel agraires Société anonyme.” L’Agriculture nouvelle, 12 November 1921, 664.
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Agriculture

“Green acres is the place to be. Farm livin’ is the life for me:” The American firm Beeman Garden Tractor Company and the Beeman Junior or Model G garden tractor / walking tractor

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Nov 7, 2021
It is with some nostalgia that yours truly quoted the first pair of lines from the title song of the popular American situation comedy Green Acres. I remember watching quite a few episodes of the French language version of that satirical and surreal television show originally broadcasted between
The Mobile Demonstration Irradiator put together by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Anon., “Boon to Canadian potato industry.” Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 21 October 1961, 6.
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Agriculture

One hot potato, two hot potatoes, three hot potatoes, four: Atomic Energy of Canada Limited of Chalk River, Ontario, and the early days of food irradiation in Canada

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Oct 31, 2021
Do you remember seeing The Amazing Potato exhibition when it was presented at the National Museum of Science of Technology, in Ottawa, Ontario (1991-94), or at the Agriculture Museum, also in Ottawa (1994-2000), my reading friend? No? You saw it at the Potato Museum, in O’Leary, Prince Edward Island
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Projects & Initiatives

Learn more about the Canola exhibition at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Canola: Seeds of Innovation

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Food Preservation: The Science You Eat

3 posters from the Women in STEM series
Website: Women in STEM