Sifton-Cook Heritage Centre (Cobourg Museum Foundation)

The Cobourg Museum Foundation has restored the town's oldest limestone building together with a 19th century workman's cottage and converted them into the Sifton-Cook Heritage Centre, named after two of the Foundation's early members.

A 250 ft. 1/20 scale operating model railway (the Cobourg and Peterborough Railway, 1850s-1880s) running the length of our property, includes a layout of Cobourg's Harbour.  A train runs over the ill-fated Rice Lake Bridge carrying loads of lumber from the backwoods.

Archived material from the following displays is accessible on our website, www.cobourgmuseum.ca:

     2012 - Cobourg at the time of its Incorporation 175 years ago (1837).

     2013 - Our Transportation Story - the 160th Anniversary of the turning of the sod for our railway

     2014 - Our Military Story

      2015 - Industry & Commerce 

      2016 - The Part Sports Played

      2017 - Canada & Cobourg 

      2018 - Our Built Heritage

     2019 - Artifactually Speaking

Website: http://www.cobourgmuseum.ca

Type: Community Museum | Historic Building