Guided tours of the Ingenium Centre collection

“Canada has a unique geography, a unique history, and unique stories.” [Several quick shots of various landscapes around Canada ending on drone footage of the Ingenium Centre. Inspirational music plays in the background.]

“At Ingenium, we showcase Canada’s stories of science and innovation. Behind these walls, objects are brought to life by the stories that shape them, by their creators, their users, and by the lessons we can learn from them.” [Footage panning across multiple Ingenium collections including trains, cars, microscopes, bicycles.]

“We celebrate those who dare to think differently; their stories reflect our nation’s drive to learn, to adapt, to discover, and to create.” [Old photos of an astronaut, a woman in a wheelchair beside her adapted car, a man playing an electronic synthesizer.]

“Our collection preserves the stories of our nation’s heritage. We are home to millions of artifacts and archival documents, spanning soil to space and everything in between.” [Cut back to shots of the collections at Ingenium: space artifacts, agriculture artifacts. A shot of the Ingenium library and archives.]

“There is no other collection like ours in the world. It showcases Canada’s instrumental contributions to science and innovation.” [Historic footage of airplanes flying cuts to visitors at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum looking up at pointing to aircrafts.]

“Artifacts are a gateway to understanding the world in a new way.” [A man looks down at an iPad rendering a 3D scan of a train in the collection.]

“What may look like an ordinary water sample is actually a specimen of the oldest known flowing water on Earth, dating back over a billion years.” [A curator holds a vial of water. A zoomed in shot of the water shows a label that says “Kidd Creek Water”]

“We are safeguarding more than just artifacts; we are preserving, with respect, the stories of their users and creators.” [Conservators hold Q-tips dipped in various liquids as they work on various artifacts.]

“We embrace the knowledge of equity-deserving communities by collaborating with them to uncover new stories about our collection.” [A woman smiles and speaks as she presses buttons on a prototype display board used for testing. Her guide dog sits beside her.]

“This Algonquin-style birchbark canoe dates back centuries and is an example of the master craftsmanship of the Anishinaabe people, representing identity, history, culture, and language.” [Various pans of the canoe from different directions as it sits in the middle of the collections storage area.]

“The Dome mine carries over 100 years of mining history. Inscriptions on this mine door mark moments in time made important by the miners who left them – from a first snow to historic events.” [Close up on the Dome mine doors. Messages are carved into the door including “May 2. Hot, all snow gone, clear skies” and “June 5. Kennedy shot at LA”]

“Spanning transportation, physical sciences, medicine, communications, agriculture, and natural resources, our collection signals wide-reaching impacts – from redefining the way we measure time, to launching modern satellite broadcast technology, increasing access to Canada’s remote Northern areas.” [Several quick shots of various collection objects including a car, a computer, a microscope, agriculture equipment, engines, a satellite model. A plane flies over a small northern community.]

“Whether the first, the oldest, the largest, or the smallest of their kind, there is no limit to what you can discover in our collection.” [A curator takes a box down from the top shelf in the collection storage facilities. Two curators handle a small precision instrument with gloved hands.]

“Our stories can inspire amazement… a time and place to rediscover Canada’s contribution to the world.” [Several kids flip pages and point excitedly to pictures at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Drone footage of the outside of Ingenium Centre.]

[Ingenium logo, IngeniumCanada.org, Government of Canada wordmark.]