Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation (), formally the National Museum of Science and Technology ("Musée national des sciences et de la technologie"), is a Canadian Crown corporation responsible for overseeing national museums related to science and technology. The name is based on the Latin root of the word ingenuity. Until June 2017, the corporation was branded as Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation ("Société du Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada").
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.
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 where the corporation shares working documents and corporate plans. It also maintains an open data portal.
Ingenium Centre.
In 2016, the Government of Canada announced $150 million in funding to build the Ingenium Centre. This 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.
Construction started in 2017. The completed building is 36,000 m2 and almost 10 storeys high. The library, archives, conservation labs, workshops and staff moved in 2019 and early 2020. The artifact move is expected to last through 2021.
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 change of name were documented in the TVOntario film "How to build a museum for the 21st century", broadcast in December 2018.
Since 2007, Ingenium is supported by the Ingenium Foundation. The foundation achieved official charity status on April 1, 2008.
In 2014, the Canada Science and Technology Museum was forced to close because of toxic mould pollution. 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.
In September 2018, the Canada Science and Technology Museum stopped collecting artifacts for the foreseeable future.
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. Together, the three museums under the corporation feature twenty long-term exhibitions:
Each museum also hosts temporary exhibitions.
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