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Canada Science and Technology Museum

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Canada Science and Technology Museum is Ottawa’s national hands-on science museum on St. Laurent Boulevard beside Sheffield Glen and the Ingenium Centre.

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What's on here

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Why go

  • Crazy Kitchen explores human perception.
  • More than 700 artifacts fill the central Artifact Alley.
  • Massive locomotives stand beside a steam engine from a Canadian Coast Guard ship.
  • The Bras d’Or prototype hydrofoil is on display.

Opening hours

Today09:00 – 17:00Show all
Monday09:00 – 17:00
Tuesday09:00 – 17:00
Wednesday09:00 – 17:00
Thursday09:00 – 17:00
Friday09:00 – 17:00
Saturday09:00 – 17:00
Sunday09:00 – 17:00

Don't miss

  • Aurora-inspired light and sound displayAn interactive display inspired by auroras greets visitors.At the entrance
  • Sound by DesignTry instruments and musical inventions.Sound by Design
  • Wearable TechBody-worn objects include an amauti, Google Glass and Newtsuit.Wearable Tech
  • Appendectomy bottleA bottle from Abraham Groves’s first appendectomy is displayed.Medical Sensations
  • The Great OutdoorsExplore transportation and outdoor recreation.The Great Outdoors

Know before you go

  • Open daily, 09:00–17:00.
  • Buy tickets through the museum’s website.

What's inside

  • Five main galleries.
  • An 850-square-metre hall for travelling exhibitions.
  • Classrooms and theatres.
  • Cafeterias and boutiques.
  • Interactive experiences alongside traditional artifact displays.
  • A collection spanning eight fields, including communications, computing, medical technology and transportation.
  • The Living Lab, a University of Ottawa research facility where researchers study children outside a sterile laboratory setting.

With kids

  • Medical Sensations has an interactive display of bone, muscle and blood systems.
  • The museum features electricity demonstrations.

Tips for your visit

  • Approach the entrance through the four-hectare park in front of the building.
  • Find the museum at 1867 St Laurent Blvd, south of Autoroute 417.
  • For enquiries, call +1 613 991 3044.
  • The entrance LED surface plays a three-minute video loop.
  • In the evenings, another phase of the projection appears on the wall facing St. Laurent Boulevard.

Interesting facts5

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  1. 750,000 photographs

    The CN Photo Collection holds 750,000 photographs dating back to the 1850s.

    Canada Science and Technology Museum - Wikipedia (part 2)
  2. 1984

    The Henry Seth Taylor steam buggy was the first automobile produced in Canada; the museum acquired it in 1984.

    Canada Science and Technology Museum - Wikipedia (part 2)

  3. The collection includes the last spike for the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway.

    Canada Science and Technology Museum - Wikipedia (part 2)

  4. The museum holds the country’s largest refracting telescope, formerly from the Dominion Observatory.

    Canada Science and Technology Museum - Wikipedia (part 2)

  5. The collection includes the original hitchBOT, which travelled across Canada.

    Canada Science and Technology Museum - Wikipedia (part 2)

Shorts

History

During its first two decades, research focused on collecting machine types and studying their functions and inner workings. In the 1980s, attention shifted toward technology’s cultural role in society.

  1. 1967Founded during Canada’s centennial celebrations, the museum opened in its original home, a former Morrison Lamothe bakery and distribution centre. Crazy Kitchen and the locomotives are the only exhibits remaining from the opening.
  2. 1968It became an independent institution called the National Museum of Science and Technology.
  3. 1999Canadian National Railway donated the CN Photo Collection.
  4. 2000The museum adopted its current name.
  5. 2014–2017The museum closed in 2014 after airborne mould was found and its southern wall was judged at risk of collapse. It reopened on 17 November 2017 after major building work, with expanded exhibition space.

Sources: Canada Science and Technology Museum - Wikipedia · Canada Science and Technology Museum - Wikipedi… · Ottawa - Wikivoyage (see) · Kanadisches Museum für Wissenschaft und Technol… · Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Cana… · checked 28 Sep 2026

Where
1867 St Laurent Blvd, Ottawa

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Questions and answers

Who operates the Canada Science and Technology Museum?

Ingenium operates the museum.

How far back do the Canada Science and Technology Museum’s collections reach?

The collection includes items from the 12th century to the present.

Are all Canada Science and Technology Museum collection objects on display?

No. Objects off display are kept in storage facilities at the neighbouring Ingenium Centre.

Does the Canada Science and Technology Museum collect recent technology?

It began collecting COVID-19 pandemic objects in 2021, including an early Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine and a mask produced at CAMI Automotive.

Does the Canada Science and Technology Museum’s collection include royal-tour vehicles?

It includes a McLaughlin-Buick and a railway car used during Canada’s 1939 royal tour.

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