Collecting beetles in Cuba
Did you know that the museum has one of the world’s largest collections of beetles from Cuba? Find out more about our collaborations with Cuban entomologists to discover, identify and collect beetles...
View ArticleUnder the Sea
There’s a lot of life under the ice! Find out how Ruth Bryce is digitizing thousands of photos of Arctic and Antarctic marine life, taken by renowned explorer and museum scientist Kathy Conlan.
View ArticleConnecting through the Collection
Lea Hamilton is an artist and graduate student based in Ottawa. She spent the summer working with the museum’s rock and mineral collection, where she discovered that art has a lot in common with the...
View ArticleDiscovering northern orchids in the National Herbarium
The museum’s National Herbarium of Canada has millions of specimens of plants, algae and lichen. As part of the museum’s Arctic Digitization Project, Grace Morrison spent her co-op term taking photos...
View ArticleMammoths and Bison and Horses, Oh My! Finding Fossils in the Yukon
The Yukon boasts some of the most fossil-rich sites in Canada. Zoe Landry, a doctoral candidate at the University of Ottawa, was part of a team collecting the bones of mammals that roamed the region...
View ArticleHaving a Whale of a Time: Photographing the Bronze Whale Collection
Join Gabriella Ruggero, Photo Collection Student, as she overcomes the challenges of photographing shiny, bronze whale sculptures for the museum’s digitized platforms.
View ArticleA “moss-ome” summer!
Students Tierney Kist and Sofia Vargas spent the summer of 2023 identifying mosses and liverworts on museum sites in Quebec and Ontario. Discover what they found out about these fascinating plants,...
View ArticleDuck-Billed Dinosaurs on the Move!
Joshua Wasserlauf is analyzing fossil isotopes to unlock some of the mysteries behind dinosaur behaviour. Find out what he has discovered about the duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs), including how...
View ArticleGoing where few botanists have gone before
What do the northern tundra of Nunavut, the Arctic waters near Cambridge Bay, a lake bottom in Yellowstone National Park and the fields of Charlevoix have in common? They were just some of the...
View ArticleNew Mont Saint-Hilaire display in the Earth Gallery
Did you know that Mont Saint-Hilaire, just outside of Montreal, is one of the most important sites for minerals in the world? In April 2024, the museum opened a new display highlighting the rare and...
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