Get to know Braille the person and braille the language. Compare historical and modern tools such as the last braille press used by CNIB, a folding mobility cane and an auditory digital clock. Explore devices developed in Canada to help people with vision loss live independently, and learn about the Canadians who have contributed to these innovations.
Guided Tour for Visitors with Vision Loss
This two-hour guided tour is designed to introduce people with vision loss to the Museum. The tour includes verbal descriptions and hands-on activities that demonstrate how science and technology has shaped the lives of Canadians and how Canadians have contributed to science and technology.
The program is available for groups of up to five participants. Reservations required; please call 613 991-3053 or 1-866-442-4416 for details and availability.
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, this guided tour will be offered at no fee throughout 2009 - the Year of Braille.
Artifact no.: CSTM 1982.0531
Source: CNIB, Montreal
Braille writing can be produced in several ways, all of which emboss or raise the dots on the page. The largest artifact in this exhibition is the Colt’s Armory printing press which was used by CNIB until 1982.
A Camera on the Banks: The work of Frederick William Wallace
Let the unique photographs of Frederick William Wallace transport you to the last days of Nova Scotia’s schooners under sail. Using a series of photographs, quotations and artifacts tied to the Canadian fishing industry, discover the man behind the camera and the lives of his seafaring friends.
This exhibition was developed by the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, and is presented here in collaboration with the Canada Science and Technology Museum. The guest Curator was M. Brook Taylor.
Is an exhibition that focuses on how the development of the steam engine profoundly influenced the size, shape and performance of ships, whether driven by paddle-wheels or propellers. This exhibit offers a glimpse, both in miniature and full size, of a technology that forever changed our sense of time and space. The Museum will highlight 13 steam powered ship models as well as a full size steam engine.
Visit our own celebration of the International Year of Physics. The Museum has developed a multiphase exhibit on several “Big Physics” projects in Canada. The Tokamak de Varennes, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, the founding of the Dominion Observatory, our Nobel prize-winning physicists, the ZEEP - Canada's first nuclear reactor - all are explained with the use of their own unusual artifacts.
Tokamak - Creating the Sun on Earth
Come and see our Canadian contribution to nuclear fusion, a possible future source of energy! The Tokamak de Varennes operated as a research device to study the confinement and heating of plasma, in the hope of achieving a working fusion reactor. Visitors are able to peek inside the Tokamak vacuum chamber, the vessel designed to bring plasma to fusion.
Deep in a mine in northern Ontario, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory counts tiny particles emitted by the Sun. Why? Our exhibit on this underground experiment will show you this amazing underground facility, and explain how it resolved the decades-old mystery about the inner workings of the Sun.
A century years ago, the Dominion Observatory was founded at the Experimental Farm. Come and see the early telescopes and measuring instruments used to tell time and analyse the spectra of stars, including our Sun. Visitors can look through the original 15" refracting telescope from the Dominion Observatory during one of our astronomy programs given throughout the year.
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicists
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Bertram Brockhouse and Gerhard Herzberg are two of Canada’s Nobel laureates. Come and see the equipment they developed to research their pioneering contributions to physics.
A loaded Blattnerphone (690727) reel weighed 15 kg, 1933. (CSTM)
This exhibition highlights the history and importance of preserving audiovisual media. Drawing on the Museum's extensive collections and curatorial resources, the exhibition's artefacts and displays present an overview of the history of electronic record preservation. Visitors are encouraged to examine the various forms of record storage and discover the evolution in data recording that has allowed today's memories to withstand the test of time.
Electrifying an Ideal: Health and Beauty in the Home
This unusual exhibition examines how our idea of beauty, as well as the tools we use to achieve 'the look', have changed over the past 150 years. The mini-exhibition features early electrical health apparatus, as well as electrical grooming gadgets dating from the second half of the 19th century to present day. Some of the advertisements that were used to market them are also featured. The museum is displaying many of these devices for the first time.
A century years ago, the Dominion Observatory was founded at the Experimental Farm. Come and see the early telescopes and measuring instruments used to tell time and analyse the spectra of stars, including our Sun. Visitors can look through the original 15" refracting telescope from the Dominion Observatory during one of our astronomy programs given throughout the year.
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A loaded Blattnerphone (690727) reel weighed 15 kg, 1933. (CSTM) 
