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The Police Museum is a new venture that is coordinated by a group of Volunteers. Through the use of artifacts, photographs and documents, the museum displays the origins, growth...

Think History is boring?  Think again!Nestled on the banks of Duffins Creek, Pickering Museum Village is the largest community museum in Durham region.  Discover...

This community museum focuses on the Township and Town of Uxbridge, including the former Township of Scott, from the 1800s to the early 1900s.The Historical Centre consists of 10...

Fascinating and fun for young and old alike, The OPP Museum is located in the impressive Ontario Provincial Police General Headquarters building. Showcasing more than 100 years of...

The Orillia Museum of Art and History showcases the best of Orillia and Lake Country's culture and history through regional and nationally significant exhibitions. Whether you...

Our museum site consists of the National Leaskdale Manse where Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, lived and wrote for 15 years from 1911 to 1926. Here she wrote...

A vibrant, community arts and culture centre offering a variety of exhibitions and arts education programs.

1890 - 1990 Northern Ontario railroad memoribilia, a record of the railroads impact on early settlements of the area. The museum provides a nostalgic look at Northern ontario...

This military museum focuses on artifacts and vehicles related to the Ontario Regiment and the City of Oshawa. Visitors to the museum can view a 1944, 38-ton Sherman tank; an Anti...

For over 60 years, the Oshawa Museum (OM) has celebrated our City’s history with engaging events, inspiring exhibits, and an immense collection of archival materials....

The history of the Muskoka Lakes area is depicted at this community museum. The site explores the local boat-building and water transportation industries and the development of...

Muskoka Discovery Centre located at Muskoka Wharf on the shores of beautiful Lake Muskoka.Explore our one-of-a-kind museum that inspires curiosity and feeds the imagination for...

Visit the birthplace of the most famous Canadian in the world, Dr. Norman Bethune. His enduring fame in China has helped to shape Canada's reputation as a humanitarian nation...

Magnetawan is located in the Almaguin Highlands region of the Parry Sound District. The Municipality had a population of 1,454 in the 2011 Canadian census. The Municipality...

Muskoka Heritage Place - Museum, Village & Train Historic museum, with pioneer village and operational train on site. Museum open year round. Site open May long weekend to...

Situated on the site of a Hudson's Bay trading post which dates between 1848 and 1879, this museum displays pioneer artifacts from the region, a trapper's collection and...

Commanda Museum is one of the only remaining Victorian Commercial buildings to survive intact and is the only designated historical site in the area. The interior counters,...

A nationally-focused museum focused on the history of fire fighting in Canada. Artifacts from 1790 to early 1950s, horse and hand-drawn fire apparatus to 1890, motorized fire...

Located in the Boyd Lumber Office built in 1889, this community museum explores the history of one of the area's founding families. The Boyd family's influence on the...

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...

Located in beautiful and historic Minden in Haliburton County, the Minden Hills Cultural Centre has been preserving our local heritage and bringing history to life for all ages...

The Canadian Canoe Museum, established in Peterborough, Ontario, in 1997, is a unique national heritage centre that explores and celebrates the canoe’s enduring significance...

Located in a historic 1837 stone building, this museum is restored to reflect the family life of Dr. John Hutchison from 1837 to 1847. Dr. Hutchison was an early resident...

The Art Gallery features mainly contemporary Canadian art. There are over 1,150 works of art in the permanent collection ranging from historical European art to several important...

Nipissing's community museum is located in a historic log church and holds a collection of area artifacts dating from 1864 to the 1940s. Themes of home, school and church...

Preserving and celebrating the collective memories of our community – stories, images & traces of the people and the land. Permanent Exhibits tell the story of Peterborough...

This community museum is located in the original wood-frame Stanhope Council Chamber built in 1910. Exhibits and displays interpret the local history of the area including early...

At Lang Pioneer Village Museum, each day history to brought to life. Throughout the village, costumed interpreters will introduce you to the people, trades and events that have...

Focusing on the late 1800s to 1960s, this community museum encompasses a wide range of subject matter, including social history as well as a good representation of working class...

“Why is there a barbershop in your museum?” ...because our museum started in a barbershop! In 1979 the town barber, Alex Dufresne, convinced the town council to...

The Canadian Forces Museum of Aerospace Defence is dedicated to telling the story of the men and women who helped shape the emerging world of air and aerospace defence. ​​From...

The Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre, located at 325 Second Avenue, reopened for business in September 2011.The new museum includes two temporary galleries that host a...

The Algonquin Logging Museum is a major interpretive museum where the exhibits are along an easy 1.3 km loop trail which leads you through the story of Algonquin Park logging from...

Visitors to this indoor/outdoor site can learn about Algonquin Park's logging history from the 1830s to the present. The museum features a 3/4 mile long trail with a log chute...

Glanmore National Historic Site, was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1969 in recognition of its exceptional 2nd Empire architecture. Glanmore was built in 1882-...

Located in a red pine log building in Explorers Point Park, this community museum focuses on Mattawa District and the Mattawa and Ottawa Rivers. Artifacts from the local logging,...

Exhibits reflect the settlement of "New Ontario" that included an agricultural region originally called "New Ontario". Glaciers created the "Little...

People visit and stay in Prince Edward County because of its natural charm, its extraordinary restaurants and wineries, its entrepreneurial spirit, its talented artisitic...

This museum interprets the history of Tweed and the townships of Hungerford, Huntingdon, Elzevir and Grimsthorpe and the surrounding areas. The site's collection dates from...

The Museum of Lennox and Addington provides insights into everyday life from the late eighteenth through the twentieth century and focuses particularly on telling the story of...

The Cloyne and District Historical Society is a not-for-profit, charitable, volunteer organization whose mandate is to preserve and record the history of the local area and to...

This timber-framed farmhouse, built in 1793, preserves the building skills of the Loyalist settlers who had arrived in 1784. Guided tours take visitors from the...

Incorporated in 1850, Cataraqui Cemetery continues as an active burial ground and is the final resting place of many prominent Canadians.  Recognized for its great natural...

Visit the 1840’s restored house and gardens of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first Prime Minister.  Exhibits in the visitor centre commemorate his life and career, and...

Welcome to the Kingston Scout Museum!  We are open by appointment - leave a message at: 613 329-3456 or through www.kingstonscoutmuseum.ca. Recognizing one hundred plus...

Agnes Etherington Art Centre is a research‐intensive art museum located on the historic campus of Queen’s University. It illuminates the great artistic traditions of the...