About the curators

Anna Adamek is a historian of technology and the Curator of Natural Resources and Industrial Design at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Ms. Adamek has actively participated in the development of the Museum's Reading Artifacts Summer Institute – a program dedicated to the study of material culture. Most recently, she curated the exhibition Energy: Power to Choose.

Sharon Babaian is the Curator of Land and Marine Transportation at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In addition to her interest in the history and material culture of transportation technologies, she also researches and writes about public history generally. In her previous appointment as historian, she wrote a history of the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

Bryan Dewalt is the Curator of Communications at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa since 1997. Responsible for the development, documentation and interpretation of all aspects of the communications collection, he has published on the history of printing technology, dictation machines and digital networks. Mr. Dewalt was co-curator of the award-winning exhibit Karsh: Image Maker, and most recently curated an exhibit on optical guitars.

Rénald Fortier has been with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum since 1987. Appointed Curator of Aviation History in November 1995, Dr. Fortier has had a long-standing interest in airships, balloons, and pre-1914 aviation. In his doctoral dissertation, he examined the role played by the federal government in the evolution of the Canadian aircraft industry between 1920 and 1965. Over the years, he has curated several exhibits on the history of aviation in Canada and abroad.

Franz Klingender has worked as Curator of Agriculture at the Canada Agriculture Museum for over ten years. Mr. Klingender is responsible for the Museum's research programme and has curated a number of exhibits – both physical and online – dealing with Canada's agricultural heritage. Prior to assuming his current position in 1999, he curated agricultural technology collections at museums and historic sites across Canada for over twenty years.

David Pantalony is the Curator of Physical Sciences and Medicine at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. He holds a PhD in the history of science, and teaches a material culture seminar at the University of Ottawa using the CSTM collection. A specialist in the history of scientific instruments, he is currently working on a medical exhibition at the Museum.