 This has been an outstanding year for Canada's National Museums of Science and Innovation. This year saw the introduction of the museum's new branding as Ingenium, Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation. Key among this year's achievements for Ingenium was the Renewed Canada Science and Technology Museum, which reopened on November 17, after three years of top-to-bottom renovations. Accessibility was made a priority throughout the renewed museum, and it earned the Accessibility Certified Gold Rating under the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification Program. The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum continues to bring agri-food science and technology to visitors of all ages, showing how food gets from farm to fork. The Canada Aviation and Space Museum refreshed its core floor displays, added a new online game to its wildly popular Ace Academy mobile game series, and completed work on the Moving Legacy Project. Another major capital project for Ingenium is the new Collections Conservation Centre that is currently under construction. It will provide much-needed stable environmental storage for our national collection of science and technology artifacts and archives. Ingenium was the only federal museum included in Minister Zhai Li's first Creative Industries trade mission to China. The purpose of the trade mission is to have a better understanding of the Chinese business environment, leading to new opportunities for us all. Ingenium has also created a Women in STEM initiative that is designed to encourage participation of women in science, technology, engineering and math. In addition to its other outreach platforms, this year Ingenium added the Ingenium Channel Digital Hub to its website. The channel features carefully curated science content. At the recent Canadian Museums Association Conference, Ingenium received three major awards, including two outstanding achievement awards. The Ingenium Foundation's first annual STEAM Horizon Awards were awarded to seven young science innovators from across Canada in support of their post-secondary education. Ingenium's many successes have been accomplished with public and private sector supporters, donors and partners. And Ingenium's dedicated staff continues to bring science and technology to museum and online visitors from across Canada and around the world. The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, a working farm in the heart of Ottawa, brings the science of farming and food production to urban audiences, as well as reaching more than one million people through extensive outreach activities. The museum enjoys partnerships with more than 50 food literacy program partners, a multitude of volunteers, students and donors, along with new collaborations with embassies, artists and national advisors. The museum's first ever Discovery Zone, SOILAB, launched appropriately on Earth Day. It encourages children and adults to give more thought to SOIL, a life-giving resource. In response to ongoing concern over declining bee populations, the museum held a queen bee party for families on World Honey Bee Day. The Food for Thought lecture series this year included topics such as beekeeping, cricket farming and beer as an agricultural product. And this year's Global Taste Dinner series celebrated the national cuisines of Trinidad and Tobago, India and Ukraine. In addition to public programs and demonstration herds, the museum features engaging and educational exhibitions. To mark Canada's 150th in 2017, the museum launched two new exhibitions, Canola, Seeds of Innovation and Space to Spoon. The museum had three traveling exhibitions on tour across Canada, a Taste of Science, Canola, a Story of Canadian Innovation and a Technozone version of Space to Spoon. The museum appreciates and thanks its employees who tend to the animals, deliver dynamic demonstrations in every imaginable weather condition and work tirelessly behind the scenes to produce outstanding exhibitions and programming. While science encourages people to reach for the sky and stars, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum takes it literally. This year, the museum launched its fifth mobile game called Ace Academy, Skies of Fury, the third in its popular First World War app series. Also launched was Air and Space, Canadian Innovations, a mobile app featuring great Canadian innovations from the museum's collection and from the collection of Winnipeg's Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada. Other important initiatives honoured veterans, heroes and pioneers of Canadian aviation. The Legacy Project is a series of six educational videos featuring Canadian aviators and civilians telling their aviation stories. The museum's Kujouac Christmas Candy Drop Book was turned into a holiday special and broadcast on CBC, English and French television. A highlight of the year was a safety first public gathering at the museum in August to view the solar eclipse. This event attracted thousands of visitors. In the museum's aerospace-themed day camps, young children enjoyed week-long music and aviation camping experiences. In July, the museum welcomed from France the massive mechanical spider and dragon created by La Meshine, which performed in Ottawa streets during Canada 150. Learning and fun often went together at the museum. Young visitors printed images of bush planes from soapstone slabs and pretended to zoom to the moon and spend a summer in space. The museum joined with OEX Recovery Group and a project to recover from the floor of Lake Ontario flight models of the legendary Avro Aero Jet. 2018 has been dubbed the Year of Space and with exhibitions, events and special programming, the museum will celebrate Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques scheduled mission to the International Space Station in 2018. The past successful year was due to the museum's dedicated employees, enthusiastic volunteers and partnerships. On November 17, 2017, the Canada Science and Technology Museum reopened its doors after three years of planning, construction and development. With a vision centred on curiosity, creativity, collaboration, inclusion, taking risks and learning from failure, this is truly a museum reinvented. The new museum won the Canadian Museum's Association's prestigious award for Best Museum Science Exhibitions. With a strong focus on accessibility, the renewed museum is the first public institution in Canada to receive the Accessibility Certified Gold Rating under the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification Program. The new museum sees science and innovation as processes of discovery for visitors as they design, build, create and experiment with science, technology, engineering, arts and math. Throughout the museum, staff focus on making science real, relevant and fun. As communicator, connector and enabler, the Canada Science and Technology Museum plays a key role in the science, technology and innovation ecosystem along with partners in academia, industry and government. Artics center stage in the new museum. Two examples are the 100 foot interior mural and accompanying online experience called Yours to Discover and the NFB produced immersive video called Ingenia that is displayed on the museum's facade. The museum has also engaged beyond its walls with mobile apps and traveling exhibitions. All of this is made possible by the museum's truly amazing staff. They are working hard to improve the new Canada Science and Technology Museum and to make it more accessible, inclusive and relevant. Ingenium's trio of museums are nothing without their collections. This year's acquisitions include an iron butcher which is a made in Canada invention that revolutionized the processing of salmon in west coast canneries but also put laborers out of work. Other acquisitions were a Canadian-built Megatvindicator 2 target drone from the RCAF, two ultralight aircraft and the less Harris funds of material on three aviation projects. Acquisitions that have taken pride of place in the newly reopened Canada Science and Technology Museum are Huron-Wendett Snowshoes, a marine sound and movement recorder research tool for exploring whale behavior and a model of a polar 8 icebreaker. Ingenium also acquired a wooden door from the historic and important dome gold mine in Timmins, Ontario. To store its exceptional collection, Ingenium is building a new collections conservation centre next door to the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Completion of the Ingenium Research Strategy was another important accomplishment this year. Research makes a collection come to life, often revealing the story of the people who innovate, the way an object is used, its materials, its traditions and its history as it was passed from hand to hand. In two separate initiatives, the museums have been working hard to capture oral histories before they are gone. There is the Legacy Series at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum and the From Rock to Reality Mining and Metalergy Legacy Project at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. To share knowledge and make the collections known and accessible, this year's Ingenium's museums develop mobile apps and continue to digitize artifacts. The Ingenium Collection is one of the most outstanding of its kind in the world and we are proud to share it with Canadians.