Celebrating Canada’s museums and the next generation of cultural curators

Posted on Friday, May 16th, 2025

May 18 is International Museum Day. This global initiative, led by the International Council of Museums (ICOM), highlights how museums evolve alongside communities, ensuring culture and history remain accessible in a changing world.

Algonquin College has a strong relationship with the National Capital Region museum and heritage sector. The three-year advanced diploma program teaches collections management, exhibit design and artifact conservation, skills which are essential to working in the museum sector. Students learn through a combination of classroom theory and hands-on training in dedicated conservation labs, where they practice cataloging, preserving artifacts and designing exhibitions.

College alumni are working in museums around the region to keep collections vibrant and ensuring that stories and artifacts from the past remain relevant today.

To mark International Museum Day, we are pleased to collaborate with Ingenium to showcase some of the Algonquin College alumni who are working at the three museums that make up Ingenium.

Ingenium is a Crown corporation dedicated to fostering scientific and technological literacy throughout Canada. It maintains and develops Canada’s national collection of scientific and technological objects and library collection (including books, historic photographs and archival documents).

Ingenium operates three national museums in Ottawa that cover soil to space — and everything in between. Museums include the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, Canada Aviation and Space Museum and the Canada Science and Technology Museum.

For more information, visit ICOM International Museum Day and Algonquin College’s Applied Museum Studies program.

(photo: Five graduates of the Applied Museum Studies program who are currently working for Ingenium museums in Ottawa)

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